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October 6, 1895 
THE CHEMIST AIS'D DRUGGIST 
foar times that in the South Dablin Union. One of the 
Guardians, a medical man, said alcoholic stimulants should 
be deemed to he drugs, kept under the control of the medical 
officers and issced only on their prescriptions. 
Ulster Pharmaceutical Association. 
A meeting of this Association was held on October 1. at 
8.30 pm, in T.O If. rooms, 5 Rojfal Avenue, Belfast. Mr. 
R. W. McKnight, M.PSI. occupied the chair. On the 
motion of Mr. Gather, seconded by Mr. Ritson, Mr. William 
Frott, M,P,SI.. M.P.S.G B., was unanimously elected Presi- 
dent, of the As^ociatioo. It was decided to hold a “Social 
Meeting” oa October 10. 
Council agreed to ask for estimates from Messrs. Bratby & 
Hinchliffe (Limited), 81 Robertson Street, Glasgow ; the 
Scotch and Irish Oxygen Companv (Limited), Polmadie ; and 
Messrs. Archibald Watson & Co., 36 George Street, Glasgow, 
for fitting up in the dispensary an aerated-water machine, 
similar to the one in use in the Glasgow Western Infirmary, 
without force-pump, of 6 gallons capacity, with syphon- 
filling machine, &c. 
freucb 1Rew0. 
(^From owr Paris Correspondent^ 
Pharmaceutical Classes in Aberdeen. 
The Aberdeen and North of Scotland Society of Chemists 
and Druggists have issued a circular stating that they have 
remodelled their classes by ir eluding the teaching of 
practical pharmacy, and giving greater prominence to 
advanced pharmaceutical chemistry. Elementary chemistry 
and botany are no longer taught. The Society have secured 
the services of Mr. Henry Fraser, Ph,C. (who .received the 
Pharmaceutical Society’s silver medal this week), as teacher, 
and the work of the session will commence in the third 
week in October. 
A Bottle of Iodine Wanted. 
On Monday a clever thief walked away with a pound 
bottle of iodine which was delivered, amongst other goods, 
at Mr. J. T. Coats’s Leith pharmacy. It is suspected 'that 
the thief will try to sell it in the neighbourhood. 
Pharmaceutical Golfers. 
The Edinburgh Pharmacy Golf Club held their last enm- 
petition of the year for the Dick Monthly Medal cn Friday 
and Saturday. A large number of members competed, the 
winner being Mr. Stott, with a net score of 88. Amongst 
other scores were : W. M. Manson, 89 ; J. J. Sutherland, 90 ; 
Burt, 90 ; Robertson, 91 ; Greig, 92, Messrs. Greig, Robert- 
son, and Stott tie for a special prize awarded to the one 
winning the monthly medal oftenest in the year, and will 
play off the tie next week. 
The Commander-in-Chief and the Chemist. 
Mr. Thomas Ness, chemist, Tranent, Haddingtonshire, has 
received a letter from the Duke of Cambridge, expressing 
his Royal Highness’s appreciation of some photographic 
snap-shots which he took at the review of the Innibkilling 
Dragoons in the Queen’s Park, Edinburgh. “ His Royal 
Highness is obliged for the excellent copies of the same, 
which are most acceptable mementoes of his last visit to 
Edinburgh as Commander-in-Chief of the British army.” 
Glasgow Parish Medicines. 
At the monthly meeting of Glasgow City Parish Councih 
held on October 1, it was reported that 5,452 prescriptions 
had been made up daring the month in the Parliamentary 
Road dispensary for poorhouse patienis, and 619 for outdoor 
poor ; and that for the latter class of patients 173 prescrip- 
tions had been made up in the following private dispensaries : 
Messrs. J. & R. Rodman’s, 74 ; and Mr. D. P. Walker’s, 99. 
The Council also agreed, at the request of the apothecary, to 
purchase, at 355. %d. each, two cylinders for holding oxygen 
gas. The purchase of these cylinders would, it was stated, 
effect a saving of 20 per cent, in the price of the gas supplied. 
On the suggestion of Mr. Russell, chemist and druggist, the 
DEATH OF M. PASTEUR. 
On Saturday, September 28, at 4.40 p.m., Louis 
Pasteur, the greatest of Frerch savants, passed away at 
Villeneuve I'Etang, near Versailles, where he was residing 
for the summer. For some days previously his condition' 
had been a cause of very serious anxiety to his family. A 
severe crisis was followed by an improvement, which was- 
only illusive, as a sudden change for the worse took place on 
Friday. Distinct evidences of albuminuria were noticed, 
and the heart's action was exceedingly feeble. Early on 
Saturday morning the painful contractions became violent- 
and frequent, and it was felt that the end could not be far 
off. The last word he spoke was at about 4 p.m., when he 
answered “ Yes ” to Mme. Pasteur’s inquiry as to whether he 
suffered much. His son was at San Sebastian, where a tele- 
gram informed him on Friday of his father’s serious condi- 
tion; he left at once for Paris, but, unfortunately, not until 
all was over. The group around the death-bed was com- 
posed of Dr. Roux, MM. Chantemasse, Nocard, Metchnikov,. 
and Martin. While Mme. Pasteur, M. and Mme.Vallery Radot, 
with other members of the family, were engaged in prayer,, 
suddenly the body of the famous savant was seized with a 
spasm, and a moment later his soul had departed. M. 
Pasteur's eyes were gently closed by his wife, and she also- 
placed a crucifix between his hands. The premises occupied 
by M. Pasteur and his family are most modest in appearance, 
and were formerly used as a soldiers’ guard-room when the- 
Royal Palace of Garches existed. It had been placed at his 
disposal by the City of Paris for the study of hydrophobia. 
The stables still exist, and are used for the horses that 
supply the anti-diphtheiia serum. Louis Pasteur was born 
at Dole, in the Jura Department, on December 27, 1822, and 
the house in which he first saw the light bears a commemo 
rative plaqiie. He was the son of a small tanner, and was 
in ail respects a self-made man. He owes his earliest in- 
struction to his father, and does not seem to have been by 
any means a model pupil. At an early age he appears to 
have shown a marked talent for drawing. Pasteur com- 
menced his University studies at Besan^on in 1840, and a 
year later accepted an assistant-mastership there. In 1843 
