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VoL. i., No. 2. THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Mr. William Owen, pharmaceutical chemist, one of the 
Founders of the the Pharmaceutical Society, has been 
iinaniinously elected an Alderman of the city of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne. 
BIRTHS. 
JoxES. — On the 25th inst., at Lilydale, the wife of John Clark 
Cunliffe Jones, chemist, A'c., of a son. 
Nelson. — On the 20th inst., at Windsor, the wife of William 
Y. Nelson of a daughter. 
— On the 5th January, at Moonta, the wife of J. H. 
Young, Hutt-street Dispensary, Adelaide, of a son. 
OBITUARY. 
Bowman — On the IGth inst., at the residence of her son-in-law, 
William Hoskins, 53 St. David-street, Fitzroy, Ellen Jane, 
relict of the late Edward Barons Bowman, M.I).,F.R.C.S.E., 
aged 55 years. 
Eagles — On the 20th inst., at High-street, Korthcote, Stan- 
hope Wolseley, infant son of Fredk. and Adelaide Eagles, 
aged live weeks. 
Fakmee. — On the 20th inst., at Ararat, Ann, the beloved 
daughter of R. W. Fanner, chemist &c., aged 23 years, 
formerly of Maryborough, Victoria. 
THE CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE 
BETHANGA MINES. 
At the ordinary meeting of the Central Board of Health on 
the 8th ult., a letter was received from the inhabitants of the 
Bethanga mines, referring to a previous communication rc 
the nuisance caused by the noxious fumes arising from the 
Bethanga smelting works, the result of the burning of 
pyrites. The Central Board had previously received a com- 
plaint on the same subject from the residents of Bethanga, 
and they had then notified the offending company from whose 
works the fumes arose that unless they (the company) took 
steps to prevent the recurrence of the nuisance, the board 
would have to institute proceedings against them. The in- 
habitants now wrote, asking that proceeeings be not taken 
against the company before the 30th June, as they had pro- 
mised to devise a means to get rid of the fumes in the event 
of their industry turning out profitable. If the company 
gave the board a guarantee that the fumes arising from their 
works would be got rid of by the 30th June it was resolved 
that no proceedings should be taken against them. 
CURE OF SNAKE-BITES BY AMMONIA. 
A young giil, a resident of l^ejar, New South Wales, was 
bitten on the ankle by a snake. She was taken into Crook- 
well, and placed under the care of Dr. Fitzpatrick, who freely 
incised the wound and after cauterising the part injected 
ammonia, and in about six hours she was able to return home. 
A boy named Thomas Malone, a resident of Drouin, Gipps- 
land, was bitten on the leg by a snake; he recovered after 
many hours assiduous treatment by Dr. Walker, who injected 
ammonia. 
It is stated that in order to make adec^uate provision for 
medical education in Jai^an, the Government intends dividing 
the country into six medical divisions, and to establish a 
medical college in each, in which the future surgeons and 
physicians will be trained. 
The dugong is a creature best represented by the seal, 
whose flesh is equal to the finest veal, and whose fat, when 
rendered, produces a medicinal oil, perfectly tasteless, and 
which rivals in curative properties the purest cod-liver oil. 
This important discovery is due to the investigations of Dr. 
Hobbs. The dugong is found on the Queensland coast. 
Some two or three months ago the Gippsland fishermen 
obtained from Mr. Gillies, the Victorian Minister of Railways, 
the promise of rail cars, constructed so that the atmosphere 
could be obtained by every basket of fish forwarded from Sale 
to Melbourne by rail. So far, the Minister has not carried 
out his promise, as only quite recently there were con- 
demned, as unfit for food, no less than nix tons of fish in one 
day. 
LEGAL AND MAGISTERIAL. 
A few weeks ago a chemist named Wills, living near the corner 
of Redfern and Botany streets, Sydney, was annoyed by the 
Waterloo Salvation Army band ifiaying oi')posite his premises 
whilst there was an invalid in the house. Mr. Wills requested 
them to desist ; but as they refused to leave the neighbour- 
hood, he caused a speedy exit of both the Salvationists and 
their listeners by distributing a noxious chemical on the 
footpath. For this he was summoned by tlie police ; but Mr. 
Abbott, the presiding magistrate, dismissed the case, at the 
same time deprecating the action of the Army in continuing 
to play in the locality after being informed that they were 
disturbing and annoying a sick person. 
BREACH OF QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. 
Beisbane City Police Coukt. 
Tuesday, January 12. 
(Before Messrs. J. Hardgrave and J. H. Adams, J's.P.) 
George Kenyon, a young man, appeared in answer to a 
summons charging him with a breach of the Quarantine Act. 
The information in this case charged the defendant that on 
the 27th December last, not being a pilot, he unlawfully got 
on hoard the steamer “Timor,” which had then arrived in 
Moreton Bay from Pho Chow, being a place other than those 
coming within the exemptions contained in section 14 of the 
Quarantine Act of 1863, before such vessel liad been boarded 
by the health officer, or before the visiting Hag had been 
hauled down. 
Mr. Sheridan, instructed by the Crown Law Office, appeared 
to prosecute. 
The defendant pleaded guilty, hut stated that he had 
hoarded the “ Timor ” wholly unconscious that he was break- 
ing the law in doing so. While down the hay in a steamer on 
the day in question, the vessel on which he was broke down, 
and being very anxious to return to town the same day, he 
took the opportunity of being placed on board the “ Timor,” 
not knowing how long he was likely to be detained on the 
disabled steamer. 
The Bench fined the defendant £30, being the lowest 
penalty under the Act for the offence, and ordered him also to 
pay £2 2s. professional costs ; in default, three months’ impri- 
sonment. 
The qualification of the trustees of the Mell)Ourne M.U.F.S. 
Dispensary has been altered to part proinietorship, so that the 
co-partners have votes for the General Assembly. 
An action of interest to medical practitioners was brought 
in London before Mr. Justice Day and a common jury, states 
the Standard of the 27th November. Tlie action was for al- 
leged libel and slander. The plaintiff, named Tully, who had 
been a pupil in a hospital at Adelaide, Australia, came to this 
country in 1875, and had been assistant to a medical practi- 
tioner at Boplar. The defendant, Macgill, was a medical man 
in the same neighbourhood, and he had issued a circular im- 
puting to the plaintiff that he was carrying on the profession 
of a medical man and surgeon although utterly unqualified, 
and that he had no license in midwifery. He had also written 
a letter to the plaintiff’s employer, saying that he was about 
to make known to the Medical Council that this gentleman 
was debasing his profession by lending his name as a cloak to 
the jjlaintiff. The letter was written to the IMedical Council, 
but no action had been taken upon it. The alleged slander 
was a statement said to have been made to one of the plaintiff’s 
patients. The plaintiff admitted that he had no medical or 
surgical diploma, but he submitted that the circular was libel- 
lous, as it imputed that he was not qualified to act in mid- 
wifery cases, while in such cases no legal qualification was 
necessary. For the defence the circular was justified, on the 
ground that the plaintiff had been fined under the Apotheqaries 
Act for an offence under the statute. As to the letters, it was 
said they were privileged, as it was for the public benefit that 
the defendant should act as he did. The slander was denied. 
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £250. 
The notice of persons subjected to the bad effects arising 
from a pestilent climate, has been drawn by Dr. Roth to the 
freedom from being attacked by fever and ague by the use of 
one-grain doses of quinine. 
