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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTKALASIA. 
COURT OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS OF TASMANIA. 
President— T. C. SMART, F.R.C.S., Ed. 
■Members— Drs. E. L. CROWTHER, J. COVERDALE, J. W. 
AGNEW, R. S. BRIGHT, W. G. MADDOX, H. A. 
PERKINS. 
Secretary— J. LEVER, L.R.C.S., Ed. 
"jy^EETINGS are held at the General Hospital, Hobart, as occasion 
may require, there being no fixed dates. 
*VTACANCIES in the Court are filled by election by the remaining 
members, subject to the approval of the Govemor-in-Council. 
MEETINGS three are required to form a quorum, 
rjIHE fee for Dispenser’s License by examination is £2 2s., and for 
Registration of Chemists qualified elsewhere, as also for Legally 
qualified Medical Practitioners is 6s. 
f j iHE Court has also power under certain conditions to grant Letters 
Testimonial, qualifying to practice medicine. 
LAUNCESTON PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
President— LANDON FAIRTHORNE, J.P. 
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer— J. D. JOHNSTON. 
T 
HE ASSOCIATION is open to all registered Chemists of Tasmania. 
^NNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, 10s. 6d. 
/^EJECTS OP ASSOCIATION. — The purpose of ^protecting 
Trade, and furthering the interests of Chemists generally. 
“PRIVILEGES. — Each member is supplied with : 
“ The Chemist and Druggist ” (London), weekly. 
“The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia,” monthly. 
“ The Chemists’ and Druggists’ Diary,” annually. 
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TASMANIA. 
Court of Medical Examiners. — Mr. Henry de Baere, 
holding Certificates of the Pharmaceutical Society of Aus- 
tralasia, and the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, was registered 
nn April 16, as legally qualified to vend medicines and drugs 
in Tasmania. 
(prom our own correspondent.) 
Hobart, Mat 25, 1887. 
I have no news of any importance to send you this 
month, business is dull, and our noble Mount Wellington 
has its winter garment on. So we must look forward to a few 
months of monotony. One thing is a blessing, Typhoid, which 
has played sad havoc amongst some of our best citizens, is 
June 1, 1887. 
i gradually clearing away to another latitude. Poor Corpora- 
tion, they seem to have all the blame throwm on their 
shoulders, and the epidemic has been pretty universal all 
through the colonies. 
Mr. R. M. Johnson, our Government statistician places 
beyond doubt that Hobart is the healthiest city of the South- 
I ern Hemisphere, yet there must be something wrong some- 
where. 
In spite of the dull times, Hobart chemists seem to vie with 
one another in carrying out improvements in regard to the 
external appearance of their respective pharmacies. 
Mr. A. P. Miller, Mr. Lithgow, and Mr. J. T. Weaver, have 
all gone to considerable expense lately in re-modelling their 
establishments, and will now be able to show our fraternal 
visitors that they, at least, do not intend to be behind the 
times. Candidly, I think we can compare most favourably 
with any other city in the colonies in respect to our modern, 
and even ancient, drug shops of Hobart. 
(from our own correspondent.) 
Launceston, May 23 . 
Fortunately, the chemists of Tasmania have legal protection 
as regards competition of stores, but, nevertheless, the ten- 
dency of the day for cheap selling is beginning to be felt here. 
The influence of the Sydney market is often quoted against 
us, several people even going so far as to bring a supply of 
medicine with them from that city. On selling one of them 
camphor the other day, I was informed that for 2s. they got 
8 or 9 2oz. blocks at Sydney, which, on my questioning, they 
admitted to be far more than they expected to, or, in fact, could 
use. The grocers here being almost ruined by others who 
do no good themselves are looking round for fresh ground, 
and, naturally, turn towards the chemist’s line. One venture- 
some finn went so far as to advertise Patent medicines and 
poisoned wheat for sale. In the latter case, the new Poisons 
Act specially applies, and the druggists were up in arms 
immediately. The Association communicated with the Super- 
intendent of Police, with the result that the articles have been 
withdrawn from sale, but they are annoyed that a conviction 
under the Act was not pressed, just as an example. However, 
on the next occasion, the assistance of the authorities will not 
be required, as the only way to get protection is to prosecute 
on their own account. There is one thing, and that is the 
chemists must not stand by with their heavy prices and see 
their trade going to the grocers and others. Most of the 
fancy trade has departed, the drapers going largely into it, 
selling perfumery and soaps much below the chemists. Their 
price list must either be revised in these times or else abolished 
altogether; for it is not likely a chemist will get 3s. for a bottle 
of perfumery while the same thing can be bought for 2s. 6d. 
In cases of this kind a price list is a disadvantage, as every- 
thing will flud^ its market value, which the price list cannot 
reach, as it is fixed for one class of customers — the rich. I 
commend this matter to the consideration of those inter- 
ested. 
Charge of Poisoning. — Arthur Lucadou Wells is to be 
charged at the Launceston Police Court on May 30 with 
having, in Launceston, on or about 28th March, 1887, “at- 
tempted to administer to one Emily Holbourne Reed, poison, 
that is to say, arsenic in wine, with intent to commit 
murder.” 
The Papers and Proceedings op the Royal Society of 
Tasmania for 1886, just issued, form a pamphlet of considerable 
bulk, containing over 300 pages. The list of papers read 
before the Society, and now republished, shows a considerable 
amount of very useful work, much of which is devoted to the 
elucidation of the fauna and flora of Tasmania itself. Mr. R. 
A. Bastow’s paper on Tasmanian Mosses, with illustrated key, 
has been already mentioned on the occasion of its issue in a 
separate form. One other paper has direct interest for phar- 
macists. It is an account of a case of poisoning caused by 
the exhalations of a species of Rhus in the Botanical Gardens, 
contributed by Mr. F. Abbot, the Superintendent. Some half 
dozen men concerned in the removal of this tree were affected 
with swellings of the face and other parts, much as is the case 
with certain individuals in North America when they come in 
contact with the Poison Ivy, Rhus Toxicodendron, 
