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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. Oct, 1 , 1806. 
DENTAL 
DENTAL BOARD OF VICTORIA. 
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Dental Board of 
Victoria was held on September *25 last, at 8 p.m., at the 
rooms of the Registrar, 454 Collins-street, Melbourne. 
Present: Dr. Turner (president), Drs. Mnllen and Spring- 
thorpe, Messrs. George, Kernot, Iliffe, and Oldfield. A 
letter from Mr. D. A. Simpson, apologising for his absence, 
-was read. 
After the minutes bad been read and confirmed, applica- 
tions for registration were considered. The Board decided 
to grant one registration under section .55, but the appli- 
cations of three others were refused. A farther opinion hi 
re Mr. Palm was received from the Attorney-General, and 
the Board resolved that they could not register him. 
The Board considered the details of the ensuing examina- 
tions to beheld on September 20-30, and decided to examine 
the candidates — sevenjin number— either at the Melbourne 
Dental Hospital or the College of Pharmacy, according to 
the nature of the subject. 
, A motion by Mr. George that, except in urgent cases, all 
applications for registration should lie on the table for one 
month was carried. The Board also resolved to resume the 
registration of articles of apprenticeship. 
The consideration of various correspondence closed the 
meeting. . . ‘ • 
Mb. E. Lenthall OLDvrEtn, dentist, and member of the 
' Dental Board of Victoria, was elected a councillor for the 
West "Ward of the City of Fit^.roy, Melbourne, on August 
18, by a majority of one. 
Heath &■ Kernot (R. Heath & F. A. Kernot), dentists, 
of 6G Russell-street, Melbourne, have dissolved partnership, 
'Mr. Kernot continuing the business. 
The Dental Association of Victoria ip in voluntary 
liquidation, a resolntion to wind up having been condrmed 
at a special general meeting of the association on September 
16. Mr. E. Joskc is the liquidator. 
Dental Examinations in Victoria.— The nestexamina- 
tions under Part II. of the Medical Act 1890 will be held 
before the Dental Board in Melbourne on September 29 and 
30. Seven candidates have entered. 
Thefts of Artificial Teeth.— Several instances of 
thieves carrying off false teeth have occurred in Victoria 
"within the month. At Benalla the dentist’s shop of Mr. 
J. R. M‘Intosh was entered during the night and £45 worth 
of gold and teeth stolen, Witt A Co.’s pharmacy in Chapel- 
street, Prahran, was similarly broken into, the thieves 
■taking a quantity of dental , show-plates, valued at £10, the 
property of Mr. W. H. Dudley, dentist. A third theft was 
due to an oversight of the \*ictim, Mr. J. E. Booth, chemist 
and dentist, of Smith-street, Collingwood. Forgetting to 
take in a show-case of dental goods overnight, he found it 
next morning broken open and the contents, valued at £40, 
abstracted. 
^The writing of the pamphlet on “Dentistry for 
Mothers’* for which Mr. George Reid Murphy recovered the 
sum of £30 from a Melbourne dentist, has had consequences 
unexpected by that gentleman. The report of the case came 
before the Solicitor-General, who notified Mr, Murphy that 
the Public Servants’ Act provides that a civil servant shall 
not engage in work outside the service, and inquired whether 
in preparing the pamphlet in question he had not committed 
a breach of the Act. Mr. Murphy thought he had not ; but 
has since been informed that the Solicitor-General thinks he 
has, and that in future he is not to undertake any employ- 
ment outside his official duties, without first obtaining 
the consent of the Governor-in-Council. 
Dentistry in Conjunction with'Pharmaey— At the 
last meeting of the Dental Board of Victoria a letter was 
read from Mr. H. W. Shillinglaw, Registrar of the Pharmacy 
Board, stating that several names appeared in the Dental 
Register as having practised dentistry in conjunction vyitb 
pharmacy** before the passing of the Dentists’ Act, whereas 
none of these were on the Piiarmaceutical Register. Mr. 
Shillinglaw accordingly suggested that the words “with 
pharmacy’’ should be left out in the next Dental Register, 
x\ffcer some discussion it was felt by the members of the 
Board that under the Dentists Act it was for them to say 
in what capacity a person had practised dentistry, whether 
separately or with pharmacy, and that as previous members 
had at a meeting of the Board so registered the applicants, 
the matter was settled. If the registrations were irregularly 
recorded or worded anyone wishing to move iu the matter 
had a remedy. It was, accordingly, decided to merely 
acknowledge the letter. 
Alleged Unskilful Dentistry. In the No. 2 Jury 
Court, Sydney, on September 7, hlr. Charles George 
Hodgson, surgeon-dentist, appeared as defendant before Mr. 
Justice Cohen and a jury of four, in an action for damages. 
The plaintiff was Theresa Neal, who alleged that through 
the carelessness of one^of the defendant’s assistants in 
extracting a tooth from her jaw she had suffered great pain 
and been put to considerable expense. . About June 0 or 10, 
1S94, the tooth was removed, and on September 14 following 
her jaw had become so swollen that she had to seek medical 
advice. It was then found that part of the bone had 
become diseased, and that growths had formed. ' This 
necessitated several operations, the dead bone and gatherings 
having to be taken away. She attributed these injuries to 
the removal of the tooth, and claimed £2000 damages. The 
defendant pleaded not guilty, and maintained that there 
was no connection between the complaint from which 
plaintiff suffered in September and the extraction of the 
tooth three months before. Several doctors were called in 
support of this \iew, all expressing the opinion that, had the 
swelling been due to the dental operation, it would have 
shown itself within a ■week. On the other hand, no medical 
evidence was adduced to show that the dead bone was the 
result of the operation. This was pointed out by the judge, 
who said there was positively no evidence of negligence or 
unskilful treatment. After a short retirement the jury 
returned a verdict for the defendant. 
. A NEW GENUS OF HELICHRYSOID COMPOSURE. 
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Described by Baron* Ferd. Vo.n* McETLer, K.C.M.GV, M.D., 
Ph. D., LL.D., F,R.S^ •: - 
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Gratwickia. 
Headlets many-flowered, rayless, almost hemispheric. 
Involucral bracts in some few rows; lanceolar, scarious; the 
outer sessile, the inner stipitate, all very ciiiolate. Recep- 
tacle without any bracts between the flowers, depressed, 
glabrous. Flowers uniform, the outermost devoid of 
stamens. Corolla-tube slender, particularly downward ; 
limb 4-5 denticulate. Anthers sagittate at the base. Stigmas 
truncate. Achenes thinly cylindric, smooth. Pappus con- 
sisting of a single plumous bristlet. A small erect annual 
lanuginous herb of gnaphaloid aspect, with narrow-lanceolar 
flaccid leaves and with small terminal, almost sessile, 
headlets, few in number. 
Craticickia Zloiochictn. 
Jt'^ear Strangway*s Spring, growing together with Aristida 
arenaria, W. H. Gratwick, Esq. 
The only specimens seen, 2 and 4 inches high, unbranched. 
Leaves attaining a length of 1 inch, the lowest crowded, the 
others scattered. Headlets of flowers .J — J inch broad. 
Involucre almost completely concealing the flowers — yellow 
— appearing pilose all over from the long and extremely 
fine ciliolation of the constituting bracts. Pappus about as 
long as the corolla, broader upwards, narrower downward’, 
denudated near the base. This would be an Heliptirum if 
the pappus was not reduced to one bristlet as in some 
Angianthea). The stature of the plant, so far as hitherto 
known, is that of the dwarfed forma of Gnaphaliam luteo- 
album and of Helichrysom apiculatum. Some structural 
approach to Plerygopappus and Stuartina is also perceptible, 
but the habits of the three are totally different. 
