BETTS V. NEILSON AND OTHERS. 
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SCHEDULE E. 
Declaration to be signed by and on behalf of any Apprentice or Assistant claiming 
to be registered under the Pharmacy Act , 1868. 
To the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
We hereby declare that the undersigned , residing at 
, in the county of , had before the passing 
of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, been employed in dispensing and compounding 
prescriptions, as an Assistant to a Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist and 
Druggist, and attained the age of twenty-one years, or had been apprenticed to 
a Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist and Druggist. 
As witness our hands, this day of 186 . 
A. B., duly qualified Medical Practitioner. 
C. D., Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
E. F., Chemist and Druggist. 
G. H., the Assistant or Student. 
PHARMACY IN VICTORIA. 
At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Medical Society of Victoria, held in the 
Board-room of the Melbourne Hospital, the President (Mr. Girdlestone) in the chair. 
Letters were read from Mr. Bosisto, the Honorary Secretary of the Pharmaceutica 
Society, asking that the Medical Society would receive a deputation from the Pharma - 
ceutical Society, in order to confer as to the desirability of the profession adopting th& 
new Pharmacopoeia in prescribing ; from Mr. J. H. Knight, of Riddell’s Creek, urging 
upon the Society the desirability of recognizing Victorian wines as medicinal agents, 
and offering some useful suggestions as to the mode of securing a uniform quality of 
wine ; and from Dr. White, enclosing a paper on the fevers of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
It was resolved that a special meeting of the Society should be called, for the purpose 
of considering the subject referred to in Mr. Bosisto’s letter. Dr. Day, of Geelong, then 
read an interesting paper on “ The use of Peroxide of Hydrogen as a remedy in Diabetes.” 
A discussion followed the reading of Dr. Day’s paper, in which Dr. Thomas, Dr. Jonas- 
son, Dr. Barker, and Dr. Cutts took part. The President then exhibited a new splint, 
for fractures of the os humeri , the peculiarity of which consisted in its possessing the 
means of extension to counteract muscular retraction. A great number of new prepa¬ 
rations of the new British Pharmacopoeia, prepared and forwarded by Mr. Francis, phar¬ 
maceutical chemist, of Bourke Street, were laid on the table, and were subjected to a 
critical examination by the members. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Francis for 
his courtesy in giving the Society the opportunity of examining these preparations. Dr. 
Thomas exhibited an artificial limb, contrived by himself, for amputations below the 
knee, the special adaptability of which consisted in its receiving the stump so as to dis¬ 
tribute the pressure laterally, and not to confine it to the extremity of the stump.— 
Melbourne Paper. 
BETTS u. NEILSON AND OTHERS. 
(Before the Lord Chancellor .) 
The Lord Chancellor delivered a judgment in this case to-day. 
The bill was filed .to restrain the defendants from using and selling in England cap¬ 
sules made of a material or combination of lead and tin, discovered and invented by the 
plaintiff, and it alleged that the firm of J. and R. Tennant, brewers at Glasgow, and 
manufacturers and exporters of bottled beer in large quantities, had been in the habit 
of covering their bottles with capsules of the same construction and material as those 
manufactured and patented by Mr. Betts, and of sending such bottles to their agents at 
Liverpool and London, for transshipment to India and China. The defendants contested 
