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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
TRADE NOTES. 
Aerated drinks made by means of liquefied carbonic 
acid gas have been frequently mentioned in our journal as 
possibly adding a profitable branch to the business of 
country chemists. We learn that the Victorian rights of the 
Patent Volcanic Aeration Co. have been purchased by Mr. 
George Matheson Browne, Queen-street, Melbourne. 
A. & F. Pears Ltd., in the eighth number of Pears' 
Pictorial^ have reproduced 56 of the pictures of fair children 
collected at the Grafton galleries, while the letterpress is 
interestingly written. The pictures grow more and more 
attractive every time they are looked at, and soon become 
absolutely fascinating. The standard of advertising thus 
set up must assist in elevating the tastes of the community. 
Mr. T. A. Dickson, of Geelong, has found it desirable to 
register the trade mark of Ann Macaulay’s Syrup — a medi- 
cine for indigestion, liver and kidney complaints — a pre- 
paration which was first brought out by his predecessor, 
Mr. B. G. Wilkins, about 12 years ago. The sale has been 
steadily increasing in Geelong, and extending to other dis- 
tricts, so protection seemed desirable. The price has not 
been cut, and leaves a good margin for the retailer. 
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.’s Australasian office in 
Collins-street, Melbourne, has been thoroughly re-arranged 
and improved. The space is now made the most of, and 
very much greater conveniences are afforded for the conduct 
of business. For a limited time the firm are offering valoid 
fluid extracts at specially reduced prices. They have recently 
taken up the agency of Colgate & Co., New York, for Cash- 
mere Bouquet Soap, perfumes, and shaving soap. These 
goods are well-known in the market, and are so elegantly got 
up that they must be popular. 
The Liquor Carnis Co., London, write to say that 
they are aissatisfied with a paragraph we published in 
July last anent the Liquor Carnis Co. Ltd. We then 
stated the two facts that the LiquOF Carnis Co. Ltd. had 
gone into liquidation, and that tlie business was still being 
carried on by Mr. Shepperson in London quite independent 
of the company. What Mr. Shepperson would have liked 
us to say, apparently, is that the limited company sold the 
business to the present unlimited company, and then wound 
up its affairs. And in this quite characteristic manner Mr. 
Shepperson demonstrates that he is, as he says, “ very 
much alive.” 
Mr. George Wilton, of Wellington, N.Z., has been pub- 
lishing for some little time “Wilton’s News Letter,” a journal 
of current topics, interesting notes, and useful information 
devoted to Wellington South. A good part of the little 
paper is given up to advertisements, some of which are from 
other tradesmen in different lines of business, which no 
doubt help to pay the expenses. Evidently this method for 
furthering business is becoming more and more popular. 
Those of our readers who are adopting this style of adver- 
tisement may be interested to know that many firms of 
publishers are now prepared to supply, at low rates, illustra- 
tions which have previously appeared in more ambitious 
publications. 
The proprietors of Dr. Lynn’s Fig Remedy are bringing 
before chemists in Australia their scheme for supplying a 
Popular Budget bearing the chemist’s own name, for free 
distribution, in their respective districts. Specimens of the 
Budget have been sent to us, containing interesting stories 
and paragraphs. The last page is reserved for the adver- 
tisements of the chemists distributing the Budget, and the 
interest of the Lynn Co. is served by the iirsertion of a few 
paragraphs recommending Lynn’s Fig Remedy. Thus, in 
one issue, there are four paragraphs distributed over three 
pages, and nothing further. Arrangements are made with 
only one chemist in each locality, so that there can be no 
local competition. The price charged for the supply of the 
Budget is relatively small. 
Elixir Dentifrice, in powder and paste, manufactured 
by the Rev. Benedictine Fathers of the Abbey of Soulac, 
France, la being placed on the market by R. Metayer & Co., 
8 O’Connell-street, Sydney, who are the agents for Austra- 
lasia, while Chaleyer, Fisher d' Co. are the agents for Vic- 
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toria. It is stated that the recipe for this dentifrice was 
discovered some time ago in an old document in the abbey. 
It was signed by the Rev. Prior Pierre Boursaux, and dated 
A.D. 1373. It is put up in the characteristic elegant French 
style, and is very agreeable in use. The prevailing flavour 
is that of peppermint, but modified so that even those who 
object to it in the ordinary way can use the dentifrice with 
pleasure. The dentifrice is being pushed vigorously by 
advertisement, and our readers will doubtless be asked for 
it freely. 
Bates’ Salve Manufactory.— The registration in 
Western Australia of a trade mark for Bates’ Salve has 
brought to light an interesting little piece of trade history. 
Some 50 years ago, Mr. Bates sold to an English firm the 
recipe and right to sell Bates’ Salve all over the world, 
except Australia, which region he reserved to' himself. 
He shortly afterwards settled in South Australia, and 
there died. His son, who succeeded him in the 
ownership of the article, failed from various causes to 
do much trade with the other colonies, and as the demand 
for it increased, the wholesale houses obtained their supplies 
from England, though none of the English manufacture is 
sold in South Australia. So high did its reputation rise, 
that it was sold on the Victorian diggings at one time for & 
guinea a stick. The ownership has recently passed by 
marriage into fresh hands, and a determined effort is being 
made to secure the Australian trade. The proprietor 
announces that for a couple of years he is prepared to sell 
it at such terms that both wholesale and retail dealers may 
make 80 per cent, profit. If all owners of proprietary 
articles would do the same, chemists would soon get rich. 
The Australian Homoeopathic Medical Gazette, 
No. 1, volume 1, has been published at Dunedin, under the 
editorship of Dr. 11. 8. Stephenson and the business man- 
agement of Mr. G. M. Marshall. It is a quarterly, pub- 
lished at 2s. 6d. per annum, post free, and is apparently 
intended partly for the use of the laity as well as that of the 
homoeopathic physician. It is curious to learn that a for- 
mer patient of Hahnemann is now residing in Dunedin, at 
the age of 76 years. In the year 1835 she was treated for a 
severe illness by Hahnemann himself, whom she remembers 
distinctly as a fine old gentleman 80 years of age. “ Thera- 
peutic hints” form one section, from which we pick a few 
which may possibly be useful to some of our readers : — 
Styes. — If on upper lid, and frequently recurring’, give Pulsatilla early; 
it will abort the stye and frequently prevent return. Staphysagria i.s also 
a very useful remedy. 
Warts are best treated by internal homcoopathic remedies. Try I'liuja 
.30 twice a week . 
Old Ulcers, with Varicose Veins. -Try first Haroaraelis 3 four times a 
day. 
For a Cold. — Sabadilla is a good remedy where the patient is chilly, sen- 
sitive to cold air, and wants to be wrapped up, wants hot drinks, coughs, 
sneezes when he inhales cold air, and nose and eyes both watery ; nose 
becomes sore. 
Growing pains in children are really rheumatic, and the tendency 
thereto should be thoroughly eradicated by medical treatment. 
Publicity always helps to extend the truth and to suppress 
error, so that from any point of view we are glad to see the 
homoeopaths of Australasia represented in type. 
Mr. H. Baskerville Mason has been in Melbourne 
during the month showing samples of a variety of the goods 
of several English manufacturers. Perhaps the leading line 
is Vinolia, in its varied forms. Vinolia baby soap, in boxes 
of three tablets, at comparatively low prices, ought certainly 
to secure a large sale. It is an article that will creditably 
bear pushing. Medicated soaps of the same make appear to 
be thoroughly efficacious, and are certainly got up in an 
elegant and attractive manner. In addition to these there 
is a long line of pure toilet soaps with perfumes, as well as 
“ Improved Old English” toilet soap. In Blondeau per- 
fumes a new arrangement has been made that they may be 
supplied in bond in 20-oz. bottles, suitable for bottling by 
chemists themselves, and the prices at which these are 
offered are such that any chemist ought to have 
little difficulty in creating a satisfactory perfume trade. 
The Vinolia dentifrice (English, American, and No. 2) 
is a very pleasant preparation, the different qualities bring- 
ing it within the reach of every class of trade up to the very 
highest. An especially pleasing form of get-up is provided 
for Vinolia Pomade and Lait Vinolia, which are put up 
ip antique porcelain vases, not marked in any way with the 
