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obvious lapsus. There are other classes of prescriptions, although not slips of the pen, 
which require, too, a very bold man to dispense them. Thus, we find here a small 
plaster ordered to be made with three grains of pure aconitine, rubbed up in two drachms 
of extract of belladonna, to be applied en permanence to the skin under leather. 
Another prescription is for 10 grains of bicyanide of mercury, in a half-ounce of dis¬ 
tilled water, as a lotion. When to these are added the ordinary risks of a business in 
which poisons are constantly handled, and which requires, for its due prosecution, con¬ 
siderable knowledge, care, and conscience, we are led to doubt whether our profession 
do well in saving the purses of their patients by a mode of prescribing which has only 
the advantage of lessening somewhat the profits of the chemist, but does so at a price, 
which has more than once been paid, of calamitous accident to the patient .—British 
Medical Journal. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, July 1st, 1868, 
Present—Messrs. Abraham, Bottle, Bourdas, Brady, Carteighe, Deane, Edwards, Evans, 
Haselden, Hills, Ince, Mackay, Morson, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Squire, Standring, 
.Stoddart, and Williams. 
The following were elected Members:— 
Bell, James Alfred .Hastings. 
Crow, Edwin Lewis.Lewisham. 
Lescher, Frank Harwood.London. 
Thomas, John Ashlin .Boston. 
Walker, Charles .London. 
MEMBERS ELECTED June 3, 1868. 
( Omitted last Month.) 
Foulkes, William H.Rhyl. 
Lake, John Hinton.Exeter. 
Squire, Peter Wyatt .London. 
Warren, George Robert .Brighton. 
Waugh, Alexander...London. 
The list of Local Secretaries was submitted and approved. 
The following reappointments were made for the ensuing year :— 
Theophilus Redwood, Ph.D., F.C.S., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
Robert Bentley, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany and Materia Medica. 
John - Atteield, Ph.D., F.C.S., Professor of Practical Chemistry and Director of 
the Laboratories. 
William Augustus Tilden, F.C.S., Demonstrator of Practical Chemistry. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The sum of Ten Pounds (second grant) was voted to a Member residing in Worcester¬ 
shire. 
