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BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Lectures on the Preservation of Health. By Charles A. Cameron, Ph.D., M.D., 
etc. Illustrated with woodcuts. London and New York : Cassell, Petter, and Gal- 
pin. 1868. 
The Law to Regulate the Sale of Poisons within Great Britain. By William 
Flux, Barrister-at-Law, etc. London : John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington 
Street. 1869. 
Pharmacopgeia of the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. London : 
John Churchill and Son, New Burlington Street. 1869. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Persons having seceded from the Society may be restored to their former 
status on payment of arrears of subscription and the registration fee of the 
current year. 
Those who were Associates before the 1st of July, 1842, are privileged (as 
Founders of the Society) to become Members, and by virtue of membership to 
be registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
The Secretary and Registrar desires to intimate that no anonymous communications, 
or letters signed with initials only, will be answered. 
The Modified Examination .—Mr. Waite, of Scarborough, writes as follows:—“Having 
recently passed the ‘ Modified,’ would you kindly allow me, through the medium of 
your widely-circulated Journal, to offer a word of advice to my brother ‘chips’ intend¬ 
ing to pass that examination. In the first place, do not be misled by those who state 
it to be a ‘mere bagatelle.’ Get up as thoroughly as you can the different branches 
mentioned in the synopsis, and, if practicable, spend at least a week in daily attendance 
at the library and museum of the Society. You will then find it comparatively easy; 
but if you come up the day before with an idea it is nothing, and without that prepa¬ 
ration, you will probably be numbered with those (of whom there is more than one 
West-End assistant) who, in failing, have only to blame their own carelessness. From 
the Society you will receive every assistance, the use of their magnificent library and 
museum, and a kind and valuable aid from your fellow-students, as well as those who 
are striving to place themselves on a still higher footing as Pharmaceutical Chemists, 
which will remove for ever that spirit of antagonism, I am ashamed to say, so many of 
us have hitherto felt to the Society, stimulate you to further and higher effort, and leave 
a grateful remembrance of all connected with the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain.” 
Mr. George Manby (Southampton) wishes to give the following caution to the trade 
—“ As so much has been and is now being done to somewhat improve the state of phar¬ 
macy, I think that it would be well to inform certain members (through your Journal) 
that they are not adding to its respectability by furnishing patent medicines , such as 
Steedman’s powders, Fenning’s powders, Cockle’s pills, etc. etc., to small shopkeepers, or 
rather hucksters , for them to supply to their customers in single doses. Two or three 
instances have been brought to my knowledge, and on inquiry, I find it is done in this 
town to some extent (of course curtailing considerably the legitimate business of the 
chemist). I have ascertained at the Inland Revenue Office that this practice is strictly 
illegal; the Patent Medicine Act clearly states that ‘ no person can retail these medicines 
unless they pay the licence.’ ” 
The Use of Ammonia in Hydrophobia.— Mr. J. Silvester (Knutsford), referring to 
the use of ammonia in India in cases of snake-bites, relates the following case :—About 
thirty years ago, a rabid dog passed through this neighbourhood ; a farmer, who had 
a cow bitten severely on the nozzle, applied to me for a remedy, but, as I knew of 
