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THE IRISH PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST. 
A special Bill has been introduced into the New Zealand 
Legislature for the express purpose of placing chemists hold* 
ing the certificate of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland 
on the same footing as tliose holding the certificate of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. A short statement 
of the differeuces and resemblances of the pharmaceutical 
chemists of the two countries will therefore be interesting. 
The Pharmacy Act (Ireland) was passed in 1875. It adopts 
the nomenclature of the British Act to a great extent. But 
this makes it more necessary to distinguish between the dif- 
ferent things bearing the same name. 
In England a pharmaceutical chemist is a person who has 
passed a preliminary examination in general subjects, a 
second examination in scientific and practical subjects suffi- 
ciently severe to be considered a safe test of his qualification 
for the practice of pharmacy; and besides all this, a third 
examination of a much higher standard on the more purely 
scientific sides of his occupation. His higher examination is 
purely voluntary, and confers no rights beyond the title 
pharmaceutical chemist. 
A pharmaceutical chemist in Ireland has merely passed a 
qualifying examination. He therefore corresponds more 
nearly to the pharmaceutical chemist of New Zealand or 
Victoria and to the chemist and druggist of Britain. 
The chemist and druggist of Britain, as already hinted, has 
passed the only qualifying examination required, and is in 
every way empowered to practise pharmacy. He is allowed 
to compound and sell poisons or dispense prescriptions. Not 
so in Ireland. Chemists and druggists practising as such in 
Ireland at the time of the passing of the Pharmacy Act were 
allowed to continue their business, but they were expressly 
forbidden to sell or keep open shop for retailing, dis- 
pensing, or compounding poisons or medical prescriptions 
(section 31). The chemist and druggist in Britain is regis- 
tered ; in Ireland the Pharmaceutical Council was empowered 
to register chemists and druggists, but we believe has never 
done so. 
We have decided to treat advertisements of 
Assistants assistants wanted or wanting situations, and 
WANTING also businesses for disposal, as information and 
SITUATIONS, to publish them in our advertisement pages 
without charge till further notice. Announce- 
ments must be sent to this office not later than four days before 
the end of each month. 
We have now received a supply of copies of 
Thu ART OF this treatise, reprinted from The Chemists^ and 
Phar.\iacy. Dnu/r/i'.sf*'’ Diary, 1887. Full particulars as to 
price, (fee., will be found on page xxiv. of our 
advertisement sheets. 
WANTED. 
T he chemist and druggist (London' issues of January, 
February and March, 1878; April, 1880; June, 1881; December 
1882; January, March, and July, 1883; July, 1884. Also, Australasian 
Supplement to the “Chemist and Druggist,” July, 1878; June, 18S0 ; 
February, March, May, and Septembe-r, 1883; September, 1884. Send, 
particulars to 71/21, office of “ The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia,” 
Normanby Chambers, Melbourne. 
W A N T E D. — “ The Chemist and Druggist,” for February 15, 1886, 
71 82. Office of “ The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia,” Nor- 
mauby Chambers, Melbourne. 
The chemist and druggist in England is examined ; in Ire- 
land the only examinations established are for pharmaceutical 
chemists. In Ireland chemists and druggists are a decreas- 
ing class, composed of those who were in business under this 
name in the smaller towns in 1S75, who did not bother them- 
selves much with dispensing. In England they are the 
majority of those who have made pho.rraacy their occupation, 
and their proportion as well as their number is constantly 
increasing. 
One other point may be of interest. The Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain does not recognise the certificate of 
the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. One reason is that 
it has no power to do so under the Pharmacy Act of 1868 
But even if it had the power there is little doubt that the 
pharmaceutical chemist (Ireland) would have to content him- 
self with the title of chemist and druggist in Britain, and 
would not be allowed to display the title pharmaceutical 
chemist. 
