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CHEMICAL DISCUSSION ASSOCIATION. 
Mr. Thongee. then exhibited his Patented Caution Label. It consisted of the 
ordinary retail or dispensing label, with a broad border of sand-paper, which 
being rough would be felt by the dispenser or patient in handling the bottle, 
and he would thus be reminded that the bottle contained a poisonous or danger¬ 
ous preparation. 
The President thought Mr. Thonger’s label had the advantage over other 
methods that had been suggested for indicating the presence of a poisonous or 
dangerous preparation, that it could be applied to or removed from any ordinary 
bottle, and would thus obviate the necessity for the use of a distinct poison- 
bottle. 
Mr. Robbins remarked that in dispensing it was the practice to take hold of 
the shop-bottle in such a way as not to touch the label with the hand, and there¬ 
fore the label in such cases could not be felt. He had seen a different, and he 
thought a better method adopted, which was to have two or three long strips of 
sand-paper pasted on the sides of the bottle. In this case the bottle could not 
be held without feeling the roughened surface of the paper.* 
Mr. Hills thought Mr. Thonger’s label the best he had seen for the purpose 
for which it was intended ; he thought also that the patent capped bottles would 
be useful in certain cases; but he did not consider that either would afford a 
sufficient guarantee of safety without the exercise of caution and the use of the 
eyes. It was dangerous to trust to the sense of touch, and to take medicine in 
the dark or without reading the label. He recommended the use of the angular 
fluted bottles, which were introduced by Mr. Savory, and had since been pa¬ 
tented by Mr. Towgood. These bottles were now adopted by the Army and 
Navy Medical Boards, and by many private firms. There was one advantage, 
that the flutes were always present. 
CHEMICAL DISCUSSION ASSOCIATION 
OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
The sixth anniversary meeting of the Association was held at 17, Bloomsbury Square, 
on Monday evening, January 11, 1864: the President, Dr. T. Redwood, in the chair. 
The following Report of the Committee was read :— 
The Committee, in presenting their Report to the Sixth Anniversary Meeting of the 
Chemical Discussion Association, have to congratulate the members on the success which 
has attended the meetings of the Association during the past year. In comparison with 
the two previous years especially, a decided improvement is observable, not only in the 
attendance, hut also in the number and value of the communications received. As atten¬ 
tion becomes more and more directed to the importance of stimulating chemical investi¬ 
gation among the members of the pharmaceutical profession, it is hoped that the advan¬ 
tages presented by the Association in fostering and carrying out original research will he 
more and more appreciated. 
The Committee think this a favourable opportunity for recalling to mind the means by 
which the Association proposed, at the time of its establishment, to effect the objects it 
had in view, and wffiich were stated in the First Annual Report, in January, 1859. 
“ As the future success of the Society will depend upon the manner in which the meet¬ 
ings are supported, the Committee would take this opportunity of reminding the members 
that the communications suitable for our meetings need not be in a finished state when 
presented, as one of the objects which the Society has in view is for the members mutu¬ 
ally to assist each other in the working out of subjects, which may be thus prepared and 
rendered fit for publication or presentation elsewhere. They would therefore suggest 
that whenever any unexplained or interesting phenomena present themselves in the 
*' w e ] iave si uce received a note from Mr. Thonger, in which he says that the adoption of 
this method would be an infringement of his patent. 
