October 5, 1895 
THE CHEMIST DRUGGIST 
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T HBRE are two Photographic Exhibitions in London jast 
now, and they are as characteristic as the Royal 
Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. The one at the 
Gallery of the Royal Society of Painters in Wa ^er Colours, 
5 a Pall Mall, is the fortieth annual show promoted by the 
Royal Photographic Society. It contains 470 distinct 
exhibits, apart from apparatus, and was opened last Satur- 
day. Two days earlier, at the Dudley Gallery, Piccadilly, 
the third Photographic Salon was opened. Here there are 
exactly 326 pictures. There is much in common between 
both of the exhibitions ; but it is astonishing how different 
the atmosphere of the Dudley Gallery feels after Pall Mall. 
The pictures appeal more keenly to the artistic sense than 
those of the Pall Mall Gallery ; they have that soft, sober, 
sesthetic look which characterises the pictures of the im- 
pressionist school of painters, and it is difficult sometimes to 
realise that one is looking at a reproduction from a negative. 
We commend both exhibitions to the notice of photo- 
graphers and those who deal in photographic materials. 
There is no question that two great schools are in the 
process of evolution in photography, or, rather, a new school 
is being differentiated from the old one. It is the so-called 
artistic school, which prides itself on being superior to all 
mechanical contrivances — fine lenses, delicate plates, and 
what not — and is convinced that the photographic art can 
only get a place in Art by the photographer exercising his 
artistic skill upon his prints. The carbon process is his 
favourite one. By depth of tone, variety of colour, and 
rough-surface paper chiefly he succeeds in producing 
marvellous pictures. Place one of these little things, 
4 inches by 3 inches maybe, in a brown frame 12 inches by 
10 inches, and a dark-green mount, and you have something 
which even a Whistler would dream over. Philistines say the 
Linked-Ring School “fake” their pictures, but what most 
amateurs would like to know is how this faking can 
be done with success. The results are excellent. 
True, comparatively few of the 323 pictures in the Dudley 
Gallery are entitled to be called photographs. We should 
say that 200 at least might be taken for photogravures of oil 
or water colours. But this shows that the school have 
realised the possibilities of the print, and mainly by the use 
of those chemical methods which they condemn, have 
carried photography on to new lines. But why should the 
school embellish itself with a halo of rough edges and old- 
face type ? We look for the explanation in the “ Forewords ” 
of the catalogue : — 
“ The influence of the picture in bringing about the 
change from the old photograph to the new has been 
constant and steady, and almost wholly for the good. . . . 
It is too early to foresee clearly what the effect will be of 
the new photography, with its fresh aims and modern 
methods. But with a craft of almost unlimited adaptability, 
and by those who have that particular combination of taste 
and imagination which we call artistic feeling, the influence 
can scarcely be less, and will probably be greater, than that 
of the older system which it now supplants.” 
Whatever this may exactly mean we take it to be of proper : 
Whistlerian ambiguity. One effect of the Salon has been 
that the Photographic Exhibition in Pall Mall contains a 
large number of pictures in the new school style. There is 
room for more of it, but we trust that the old school, no 
matter how mechanical it may be, will never quite die out. 
It requires all the resources of high-class lenses, cameras, 
&c., to produce those fine cathedral interiors of which there 
is^ a special group in the gallery, and we can scarcely do 
without those instantaneous effects, and Alpine photographs 
which will remain valuable as records. Moreover, the old 
school exhibition is a good representation of the photography 
of the day ; picked examples, doubtless, but all the best 
processes are exhibited. In short, the show is a catholic 
one, and will interest all photographers. Amongst the 
pictures of trade interest is one of Ben Nevis by Mr. W. 
L. Howie. It is taken from Cam Mor Dearg, and is as 
clear a picture of the summit of the Ben as we have seen. 
Messrs. Fuerst Brothers exhibit very successful examples of 
a competition for isochromatic work on Lumiere plates, for 
which they are agents. 
All the apparatus exhibited is displayed on a dining-table 
for ten. Messrs. Adams & Co. have the biggest show, chiefly 
cameras ; and there are some beautiful examples of Messrs. 
M. Watson & Son’s work in cameras. Messrs. Taylor, Taylor 
& Hobson, of Leicester, get a medal for their new anastig- 
matic lenses, which are so perfect in action that they repro- 
duce photographs of concentric circles which show no 
blurring. Messrs. G. Houghton & Son exhibit Sanderson’s 
universal swjng-front camera, in which the front is attached 
to two swing upright supports at each side, the arrangement 
giving the lens an exceptional range of movement. There is 
also shown a clever automatic and science lantern by Messrs. 
Levi, of Furnival Street. The peculiarity of it is that it is 
provided with a box to hold fifty slides, which moves from 
the front of the lantern, and as it moves back a simple 
mechanism lifts a slide, exposes it, drops it, lifts another, and 
so on to the end of the series. The whole fifty slides can be 
exposed in two minutes, if need be. 
The Exhibition is also open on Monday, Wednesday, and 
Saturday evenings, when there are displays by the optical 
lantern. It remains open until November 14. The Salon 
will close on November 4. 
XTrabc motes. 
The latest palatinoid brought out by Messrs. Oppenheimer, 
Son & Co. (Limited), of Worship Street, E.C , is one containing 
1 gr. each of peptonate of iron and suiphate of manganese. 
These palatinoids are intended for the treatment of chlorosis 
and anemia, both the ingredients being well spoken of as 
blood-tonics. 
Chemists have a chance of doing good business in 
nursery biscuits. A time comes when babies must have 
something else than one or other of the infants’ foods which 
are so popular, and then is the stage that Dorina Nursery^ 
Biscuits come in. It will be observed, from an announce- 
ment in this issue, that the makers of these biscuits offer a. 
full-sized tin of the biscuits free to any chemist who cares to 
apply for it, this being with the object of making the biscuits, 
better known to the trade. 
The advent of the serum treatment of diphtheria has 
somewhat overshadowed all other methods of treatment, a 
circumstance which is regrettable, for undoubtedly if the 
attack of the disease is grappled with in time, care- 
fully nursed, and watched by a practitioner of experience, 
certain simple remedies control it and prevent complica- 
tions. Of these, the sulphur or sulphurous-acid treatment 
is one of the best, and in the new form suggested by Dr. 
Brownlow Martin is worthy of being widely tried. Dr. 
Martin’s suggestion is that the patient should be given 
sulphite of magnesium, which, dissolving on the tongue, 
sulphurises the breath, and thus prevents the growth of 
the fungus. Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. have intro- 
duced a tabloid which quite meets the case. Each one 
contains 5 gr. of the sulphite, sweetened with saccharin,, 
apparently, and flavoured with peppermint. The tabloids 
are well compressed, so that they dissolve slowly : they taste 
nice. The firm also send us a sample of a new ophthalmic 
tabloid, each containing gr. of tropacocaine— the hydro- 
chloride we find it to be. This alkaloid is benzoyl- pseudo- 
tropeine, and is obtained from Java coca. It is a better 
local anesthetic than cocaine, and as it causes practically 
no irritation or other undesirable after-effects when applied 
to the eye, it is coming into note in ophthalmology. Tho 
tabloids dissolve in water quite rapidly. 
Riiinodyne, which is recommended as valuable in th& 
treatment of bay-fever, is a mcdifled form of the snuff re- 
commended by Dr. Ferrier as a remedy for cold in the head. 
It contains bismuth sutnitrate with a cocaine salt in place 
of the morphine of the original recipe. It also contains a 
little menthol and neaily 40 per cent of lycopodium powder. 
We quote this from the JSTiiisJi Mtdlccil JcuTnals “Reports 
and Analyses.” 
