October 5, 1895 
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CONTENTS: Vol. 
Bankruptcy Reports 532 
Bustneea Ghan^ 533 
Con-espondence 540 
Deaths 524 
Editorial Comments 
Pasteur 526 
Professor Roberts on Pharma- 
ceutical Education 527 
Leprosy in Er gland 528 
Pharmacy y. Companies .... 529 
Edinburgh Press on Pharmacy 
Act 529 
English News 512 
■Prench News 516 
Gazette 533 
Irish News 515 
Legal Reports 530 
XLVII. No. 14. 
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Marriages 624 
New Books 533 
New Companies and Company 
News 534 
Next Week 542 
Opening of the Medical Session 534 
Personalities 635 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain 
Council Meeting 518 
Opening of the Session 519 
Introductory Address 520 
Photography as an Art 525 
Scotch News 516 
Trade Notes 525 
Trade Reports .... 536 
THE CHEMISTS’ AND DRUGGISTS’ 
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whether it is critioal or otherwise. 
Summfri? 
Five cases of carbolic-acid poisoning are recorded on- 
p. 513. 
The Pharmaceutical S ^ciety of Ireland are to eleot new 
examiners shortly (p. 515). 
We report upon the photographic exhibitions wbioh are 
open in London just now (p. 525). 
A registered druggist in Belfast has had to pay up 
for compounding a prescription (p. 531). 
A Leicester chemist accepts an injunction and pajs 
40/ for imitating Beecham’s pills (p. 632). 
Dr. Danford Thomas has made some pertinent remarks 
in regard to signing the poisons-bo-k (p. 513). 
We print verhatim the Edinburgh Sheriff-substitute’s ju<-‘ g- - 
mentfl in the Pharmacy Act cases decided there last weex 
(p. 530). 
The opening of the session at the various Medical 
Schools has been maiked by some striking addresses, a few' ' 
of which we refer to (p. 534). 
Mr. Bannister stated in court the other day the circum- 
stances which led to the adoption of the present Somerset 
House standard for milk (p. 515). 
Mr. Thomas Ttrer, before leaving for a trip to the- • 
States, laid before Stratford people his views on technica.1 
training and trade-unions (p. 512). 
The disadvantage of buying sponges and breaking bulk: 
by using some and returning others is shown by a case 
decided by Mr. Commissioner Kerr (p. 631). 
A Bootle storeman who sold Towle’s chlorodyne he s been 
fined 10/. and costs under the Pharmacy Act — 5/ for the sale 
and 5/. for keeping open shop for that purpose (p. 630). 
The Pharmaceutical Council bad not much business on 
Wednesday, but it resolved to press forward, in co operation 
with other bodies, the Bill to amend the Companies Act, s> 
as to counteract evasion of the Pharmacy Act by company 
trading (p. 618). 
An extraordinary general meeting of the Chemists’ Co- 
operative Society (Limited) has been held, at which a section 
of the shareholders endeavoured to get steps taken to have 
the company wound up. Owing to an informality no resolu- 
tions could be passed (p. 624). 
Pasteur's death last Saturday is one of our principal 
records this week. Our Paris correspondent communicates 
a graphic account of the savant’s life and a recent portrait 
(p. 616), while we give an appreciation of his influence upon 
science and medicine (p. 526). 
A representative of the Austrian Embassy in London 
received on Wednesday from the Pharmaceutical Society 
the Hanbury gold medal for conveyance to Professor Vogl, 
of Vienna. We print a portrait of the professor and brief 
particulars of his career (p. 619). 
The Pharmacie Centrale de France, which is the largest 
wholesale druer-house in France, has reached an annual' 
turnover of 12^000, OOOf,, and the occasion was celebrated on- 
Sunday by a banquet given by M. Ch. Buchet, which our 
Paris correspondent writes about (p. 517). 
Professor Frederick T. Roberts, of University 
College, delivered the introductory address at Bloomsbury 
Square on Wednesday afternoon, and by his effective style ^ 
of delivery and the common-sense nature of the rdma?kj • 
immensely pleased the audience (p. 520). 
Not very many changes of importance are recorded in 
our Trade Reports this week. In a number of articles the' 
upward movement has received a momentary check, altho '’glN 
it is quite possible that speculative activity may be resumed 
shortly. We print an interesting circular which has been 
sent cut by the English iodine -resublimers to their wholesale 
customers, and comment thereon. The circular re'ates to 
a “ drawback ” to be henceforth allowed on iodine prepara- 
tions. Matters of interest to the trade will also be foaod 
in our letters from Liverpool, Newcastle-on-Tyne Gla’g w,. 
Aitfiteidam, New Ycrk, and Smyina (p 536). 
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