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His genial and warm-hearted manner, and his gentlemanly bearing and 
courtesy, marked him as a man who took the lead of his fellows. All 
societies were indebted for their existence to a few minds; and were it not 
for the attention and assiduity those men devoted to the express object to 
which they gave their attention, this and like associations would not prosper 
and flourish. 
Mr. Caley (Norwich) seconded the resolution, which was unanimously 
agreed to. 
On the motion of Mr. T. B. Groves, seconded by Mr. It. C. Pitts (Nor¬ 
wich), the following resolution was unanimously adopted :— 
“ That the President of the Conference be requested to address the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, requesting the use of the Society’s house for the purpose of 
holding a meeting on Tuesday, the Gth of October next, with a view to the carrying out 
of the foregoing resolutions.” 
Mr. Savage referred to the great exertions in favour of the Pharmacy Act 
that had been made by the Parliamentary Committee of the Pharmaceutical 
Society. He could not but admit that some portions of the regulations, as to 
the sale of poisons, appeared objectionable, aud even impracticable, but these 
had been introduced, not by the original promoters of the measure, but in 
spite of them. 
Mr. Deane thought that the poison clauses of the Act would be found 
less difficult to work than some of his brethren supposed ; for his own part, 
he did not anticipate any serious inconvenience. 
At the request of the President, Mr. Carteighe proceeded to consider the 
effects of the various clauses of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, which were taken 
seriatim. Mr. Carteighe stated that he was acting unofficially in the matter, 
and that his rendering of any doubtful clauses must only be taken as the 
expression of his personal opinion. 
Mr. Bremridge, Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society and Registrar 
under the Act, added valuable opinions upon the clauses as they were con¬ 
sidered. 
Passing over the preamble, which, Mr. Carteighe said, required no expla¬ 
nation, he remarked that Clause 1 provided that persons selling or compound¬ 
ing poisons, or assuming the title of chemist and druggist, must in future be 
qualified ; that was to say, that from and after July 31st of the present year, 
no person should assume the title of chemist and druggist, or chemist or 
druggist, or pharmacist or dispensing chemist, or any designation which gave 
an impression to the public that he was duly qualified within the meaning of 
the Act, unless he had passed an examination, or was a pharmaceutical or 
non-pharmaceutical chemist in business prior to the passing of the Act. 
Mr. Searby t inquired whether shopkeepers in the countiy would be able 
to register under the Act. 
Mr. Carteighe replied, that in that case it would be important to refer to 
the schedules, where it would be found that a person in business before the 
passing of the Act would have to make a declaration in the form of Schedule 
(C), to the effect that he had been acting “ as a chemist and druggist, in the 
keeping of open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly quali¬ 
fied medical practitioners before” such-and-such a date. Accompanying that 
declaration must be sent another signed by a magistrate or medical practitioner, 
as attesting its truth. The object of that was that a person who merely sold 
drugs should not be registered under the Act; he must first get a magistrate 
or medical man to sign a certificate to the effect that to his knowledge such 
seller had been engaged in the compounding of prescriptions of duly qualified 
medical men. Of course there would be little instances of sailing close to the 
w ind, which could not be easily avoided. 
