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LAW FOR REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF 
excuse for the innovation, if such it should be considered. It would be diffi¬ 
cult to find another Pharmaceutist more exceptionally qualified. 
Let us then enter upon the new year with hopeful, because well-grounded, 
confidence. 
The least observant must have been struck with the higher social estimation 
now enjoyed by those engaged in the pursuit of Pharmacy. We scruple not to 
affirm that this is due to diligent self-cultivation on their part; the world has 
anticipated legislation in paying them respect. 
Having once put our hand to the plough, let us not go back. We have a de 
cent building, if not lavishly architectural, at least not ignoble; we have a 
Laboratory whose internal arrangements fear no comparison ; our Museums, 
when properly classified (a work of time), will fairly represent British Pharmacy ; 
glad should we be if, in exhibiting our various treasures to a stranger, we could 
throw back a particular door and say with pride, this is the Library. 
LAW FOB BEGULATING THE SUPPLY OF MEDICINES TO 
FOBEIGN-GOING SHIPS. 
By an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, some new regulations 
have been introduced with reference to the supply of medicines to ships sailing 
to foreign ports. This Act is called “ The Merchant Shipping Act, 1867.” 
Among the special objects which appear to have been contemplated in the 
framing of this Act, are those of ensuring a good and sufficient supply of lime- 
or lemon-juice for the use of ships’ crews, and the adoption of other arrange¬ 
ments calculated to diminish the tendency to scurvy in those who are, to a great 
extent, deprived of the use of fresh and especially of vegetable diet. 
The following explicit instructions, embodying the provisions of the Act, 
as far as it relates to lime- or lemon-juice, have been prepared and issued officially 
by the Board of Trade :— 
November , 1867. 
Instructions Respecting Lime and Lemon Juice. 
(.Merchant Shipping Act , 1867.) 
Introduction. 
1. The Merchant Shipping Act, 1867, section 4, contains a provision to the effect that 
the master of every foreign-going ship (with certain exceptions, expressly named), navi¬ 
gating between any place in the United Kingdom and any place out of it, shall provide 
and cause to be kept on board a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice, and shall 
serve it out himself or cause it to be served out at the rate of an ounce per day for each 
member of the crew so soon as they have been at sea for ten days. 
2. The lime or lemon juice required to be provided— 
(a) Must come up to a certain standard of quality ; 
( b ) Must be inspected by an officer appointed by the Board of Trade; 
(c) Must be fortified with a certain quantity of palatable proof spirits, approved 
by an officer appointed by the Board of Trade; 
( d ) Must be bottled in such bottles and packed in such a manner as the Board of 
Customs may from time to time direct; 
(e) Must be labelled with a label provided by the Board of Customs, and 
(f) Must be supplied out of a bonded warehouse. 
3. To ensure a compliance with these conditions, it is necessary that persons interested 
should be made acquainted at an early day with a few of the leading facts and condi¬ 
tions respecting the warehousing, bonding, testing, fortifying, bottling and packing of 
lime or lemon juice to be used as ships’ stores. 
The following practical instructions are so drawn as to give information und each 
head:— 
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