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against competition and in the latter we read, “the Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society could not interfere (either legally or prudently, I think) in 
an affair of retail or dispensing charges.” Now it would be most interesting to 
all of us who are trying to uphold the dignity of our business, to be informed 
by these gentlemen what is to be done to check the ruinous system of “ cutting ” 
or “ underselling,” if we are not to seek our Council’s aid in the matter ? Are 
we passively to stand behind our counters, whilst men with nicely-fitted shops, 
sailing under the Pharmaceutical Society’s colours, are, by their miserably low 
prices, drawing to themselves nearly all the prescriptions, and an undue pro¬ 
portion of the ordinary retail? 
How can education, or anything else, elevate or save our business, when men 
descend to advertising patent medicines “ free of duty;” to quoting drugs at 
half their fair and proper prices; and dispense prescriptions, in which 6 or 8 oz. 
mixtures are ordered, many of them containing large quantities of quinine and 
other expensive medicines, for the ridiculous sum of eightpence! 
If butchers and bakers can have uniformity of prices, surely, on so seriously 
important a subject, we ought to have a better understanding. 
Yours faithfully, 
A Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
Londbn , E.C., July 23rd, 1867. 
MEDICAL PARTIALITY. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Gentlemen,—As a fellow-sufferer, I can well understand the rather bitter 
feeling with which a suburban M.P.S. writes on the above subject in your last 
number. At the same time, I should be sorry to say that we were being treated 
with “ cool contempt” whenever a physician recommends a patient to go to a 
particular firm in town. 
I take it that there are other things necessary besides that mere “ability ” 
which the examinations guarantee, before we can gain the entire confidence of 
the profession and the public ; and that therefore we must each be content to 
work up a reputation in the same gradual way which I have no doubt the firms 
alluded to found necessary. 
If M.P.S. would contrive some plan to touch the consciences of some of our 
suburban general practitioners, who are now, I understand, in some neighbour¬ 
hoods sending out feeding-bottles, teats, etc., in midwifery cases, I think he 
would have employed his energy more legitimately. 
I am, Gentlemen, yours obediently, 
W. F. 
P.S.—Hasn’t M.P.S. allowed his feelings to overcome him, when he says we 
can perhaps dispense better than our brethren in town in some cases? 
MOULDS FOR PESSARIES AND SUPPOSITORIES. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sir,—Referring to a paper on moulds for suppositories and pessaries which I 
had the honour to read before the last Edinburgh meeting of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, and described in the May number of the Journal, I have much 
pleasure in stating that Messrs. Kemp and Co., philosophical instrument makers, 
