70 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
January, 1883. 
one’s wife is the victim of dysmenorrhoea, why should he 
go to his physician when his druggist can probably show 
him his own physician’s certificate to the virtues of 
Hadyn’s viburnum compound for that trouble ?” And so 
on, and so on. 
It is to be feared that the almost absolute ignorance of 
our youthful medical men of pharmacy — as no adequate 
teaching is provided for them at our medical school — will 
render them peculiarly liable to fall into the same practice 
which has assumed such formidable dimensions among our 
American cousins. Our medical men in Yictoria have for 
the most part obtained their ideas of professional ethics 
from the mother-country, and are not so liable to fall into 
the same practice as the often imperfectly educated 
American doctor, and if they will only bear in mind that 
the so-called formula of these nostrums is often, and, 
indeed, generally deceptive, and cannot be tested, they 
will hesitate to give any encouragement to their use. 
Dr. Lindsley ridicules with the lash of an unsparing 
pen the host of quack medicines with fine semi-scientific 
names, and recommended by tlieir disinterested makers in 
advertisements made up of grandiloquent jargon. It is 
not to be wondered at that the ignorant become easy 
victims to these vultures of physic ; but it is past all 
understanding how men of intelligence and education 
should, without effort, quietly take for granted the silly 
and unverified assumptions and assertions of these per- 
sons ! 
The following announcement, clipped from an American 
medical journal, is a sample : — “ Petroleum compound is 
a perfect emulsion of petroleum syrup and pure cod liver 
oil, combined with hypophosphites of lime and soda ; is 
palatable and agreeable, and forms the most agreeable and 
sure remedy for the certain cure of consumption, asthma, 
bronchitis, hay fever, and all chronic lung diseases.” 
Considering that the most eminent physicians are of 
opinion, after long experiment, that hypophosphites are of 
no real value, “comparatively if not absolutely worthless,” 
to use the words of Dr. Quain, what must be thought of 
those medical professors and teachers who append their 
certificate to such trash. Verb. sap. Here follow two more 
which we have culled from New Remedies. The first is 
certificated by fifteen M.D.’s, and the second by fourteen! 
Let any honest man of ordinary education read, and reflect 
as he reads, and we know what his feelings will be ; let 
him take particular notice of “ formula” : — “To physicians. 
— Bromidia. Formula.— Every fluid drachm contains 15 
grs. each of pure brom. potas. and purified chloral, and J 
gr. each of gen. imp. ext. cannabis ind. and hyoscyam. 
Dose. — One-half to one fluid drachm in water or syrup 
every hour until sleep is produced. Bromidia is the 
hypnotic par excellence. It produces refreshing sleep, and 
is exceedingly valuable in sleeplessness, nervousness, 
neuralgia, headache, convulsions, colic, &c., and will 
relieve when opiates fail. Unlike preparations of opium, 
it does not lock up the secretions. In the restlessness and 
delirium of fevers it is absolutely invaluable. Iodia. — 
Formula. — Iodia is a combination of active principles 
obtained from the green roots of stillingia, helonias, saxi- 
fraga, menispermum, and aromatics. Each fluid drachm 
also contains 5 grs. iod. potas. and 3 grs. phos. iron. Dose. 
— One or two fluid drachms (more or less, as indicated) 
three times a day before meals. Iodia is the ideal altera- 
tive. It has been largely prescribed in syphilitic, scrofu- 
lous, cutaneous, and female diseases, and has an established 
reputation as being the best alterative ever introduced to 
the profession.” 
cike Jtlontlr. 
The last day for receiving nominations for the election of 
members of the Pharmacy Board is on Tuesday, the 30th 
January, at four o’clock p.m. 
The Pharmaceutical Register for the year 1883 is now 
ready, and copies can be obtained at the office of the Phar- 
macy Board, or from any of the wholesale chemists. 
The Chemist and Druggist diaries for 1883 have all been 
distributed. In any case where copies have miscarried notifi- 
cation should be sent to Mr. Shilling! aw at the rooms. 
The following additional sums have been forwarded in aid 
of the Benevolent Fund : — Messrs. J. Barton, Nelson, New 
Zealand, 10s.; C. Curtis, Melbourne Hospital, 10s. 6d.; and 
Robert J. Ellery, the Observatory, £1 Is. 
The following additional legally qualified medical practi- 
tioners have been registered under the provisions of the 
Medical Practitioners’ Statute, 1865: — Michael Dominic 
Murphy, Brunswick ; Frederic Dougan Bird, Melbourne. 
Tenders are invited by Messrs. Davy, Cole and Flack for the 
purchase of the business of Messrs. Hood and Co., Elizabeth- 
street, Melbourne. The tenders must be sent in by the 31st 
January. Full particulars will be found in our advertising 
columns. 
The following are the nominations for the Pharmacy 
Board of Victoria up to the time we went to press : — C. R. 
Blackett, Fitzroy ; George Lewis, Melbourne ; Henry Brind, 
Ballarat ; John Holdsworth, Sandhurst ; William Bowen, 
Melbourne ; Alfred J. Owen, Geelong ; George E. Green, 
Geelong ; James Brinsmead, St. Kilda. There are seven 
members for election. 
Mr. J. T. Macgowan, late of Sturt-street, Ballarat, has 
opened a new pharmacy on the Sandridge-road. 
Mr. J. Bagley, of Queensberry-street, Hotham, has removed 
into new and commodious premises opposite his old place of 
business. 
Mr. W. H. H. Lane, the representative of Messrs. Warner 
and Co., Philadelphia, has returned to the colonies from 
America. 
Mr. S. H. Henshall, who for many years carried on business 
at Seymour in connection with Messrs. Gould Bros., has 
started on his own account. 
Mr. S. M. Burroughs (Messrs. Burroughs, Welcome and 
Co.) is at present in Dunedin. Mr. Burroughs speaks in high 
terms of the kindness shown him in New Zealand. 
Mail ngs. 
PHARMACY BOARD OF VICTORIA. 
The monthly meeting was held at 100 Collins-street on the 
10th January, 1883 ; present— Messrs. Bosisto, Blackett, Bowen, 
Brind, Holdsworth, Lewis, and Owen ; the president, Mr. J. 
Bosisto, M.P., in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con- 
firmed. 
Applications for Registration as Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
— The following were approved : — J. S. Cobb, certificate from 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain ; F. Williams, II. J. 
Leddin, W. M. F. Reader, passed modified examination ; Percy 
