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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
A warder of the Albury Gaol, named Davis, attempted suicide on the 4tli June by taking a 
bottle of chlorodyne. Dr. Andrews, the Government medical officer, was immediately in attendance, 
and gave an emetic, with the effect of saving the man’s life. Davis had been drinking heavily lately, 
and was under suspension. If he be well enough he will be brought up at the Police Court to 
answer the charge of attempted suicide. 
A strange case of poisoning, resulting in the death of a child fifteen months old, occurred on 
the 28th May. Clark’s chemist’s shop, Queen-street, Brisbane, was recently burnt down, and it 
appears that a little boy picked up a bottle of opium pills from amongst the debris , took the bottle 
home, and gave it to his little sister to play with. She managed to get the pills out of the bottle 
and swallowed several of them. Medical aid was promptly called in, but it was unavailing, and 
the child died in a few hours. 
The following is a list of subjects on which Mr. Fred. Wright will lecture to pharmaceutical 
students at the Technical College, Sydney, during the month 1. Vegetable Acids. 2. Vegetable 
Alkaloids. 3. The Cinchona Tree, and its products. 4. The Manufacture and Uses of Opium. 
5. Animal Substances used in Medicine. 6. Alkali Elements and their Salts. 7. Mercury, and 
its preparations. 8. Iron, and its preparations. 9. Pharmaceutical Processes. 10. Disinfectants 
and Antiseptics. 
We desire to draw special attention to the case against W. T. Reynolds, for illegally selling 
poison, heard at the Prahran Police Court on the 3rd inst. The case is one of the worst that 
has ever come before the courts, the defendant having in some instances given a guarantee that the 
article sold by him, and called Fuller’s Vermin Destroyer, was not poisonous, whereas it was 
found on examination to contain from 25 to 50 per cent, of uncoloured arsenic. The defendant did 
not appear to the summons, and a warrant has since been issued against him. 
The Chief Secretary recently paid a visit of inspection to the College of Pharmacy. The 
presidents of the Pharmacy Board and Pharmaceutical Society were present to meet Mr. Berry 
and show him over the building. The career of a pharmaceutical student, from the preliminary 
examination to the completion of his studies, were explained to Mr. Berry, and he expressed himself 
well pleased with the general efficiency of the training. The visit was made in connection with an 
application to the Government for a grant of £1000 a year in aid of the funds of the College, and 
Mr. Berry promised that the sum asked for should be placed on the estimates for next year. 
His*** South llbtios. 
('From a Sydney Correspondent. ) 
The pharmacists of New South Wales will, I think, be delighted to hear of your new venture, as 
the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy will undoubtedly supply a long-felt want amongst the 
fraternity in all the colonies. Hitherto the separate colonies have been very far apart indeed, and 
a journal devoted to our interests generally must, I think, be a success. 
The Pharmaceutical Society is very busy just now making preparations for the final examination, 
under the old regulations, which takes place this month. The new regulations, which compel 
students to pass examinations up to the standard of the London curriculum, will then come into 
force. 
Mr. Edwin Quayle, a gentleman lately out from England, has been engaged by the Society 
to give a course of nine lectures in Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Materia Medica, and they are now in 
treaty for a hall suitable to hold the lectures in. 
Mr. Fred. Wright, the lecturer in Chemistry and Pharmacy at the School of Arts, w*ill give a 
course of ten public lectures in the great hall of the school to medical, pharmaceutical, and 
veterinary students. Mr. Wright, who lectures to the students preparing themselves for the forth- 
coming examination, has at present about thirty under his charge. 
The Board of Technical Education are about fitting up a laboratory for pharmaceutical students 
at the Technical Institute, Sussex-street. It will be under Mr. Wright’s direction, and will have 
accommodation for between twenty and thirty students. 
Rather an interesting ceremony to those connected with the business took place on Friday after- 
noon, 29th May, in O’Connell-street — Mr. F. W. Elliott, the senior partner of the firm of Elliott 
Brothers, wholesale druggists, laying the last stone of their new stores. After the ceremony, 
Mr. Louis Phillips proposed the health and prosperity of the firm in a few well chosen words, the 
toast being honoured very enthusiastically. Mr. Evan Prosser, of Prosser and Co., wholesale 
druggists, also congratulated the firm upon their success. Mr. Elliott then briefly responded, and 
the proceedings terminated with the toasts of the Architects, the Contractors, and the Press. 
The junior pharmacists’ ball, held on Thursday evening, the 28th May, was a great success, both 
socially and financially, and it speaks well for the efforts of the committee that their first should 
have been so thoroughly enjoyable. 
Two or three old Victorians have lately been paying Sydney a visit. Mr. Thos. Longstaff, of 
Ballarat, was here with the Ballarat bowlers. Mr. Fred. Cherry, who will be well remembered by 
many in Victoria, was here last week. Another old Ballarat man, Mr. Wayne, came down to 
Sydney from Newcastle, after a spell of five years at home. 
