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TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, 6th September, 1865, 
Present Messrs. Hanbury, Hills, Morson, Orridge, Sandford, Savage, Squire, and 
Standring, the following was elected a Member:— 
Philip Childs.Newbury. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
* 
The sum of £25, as temporary relief, was granted to a distressed Member, residing in 
Sussex. 
Ihe following were approved as candidates eligible for election as annuitants, and 
the Benevolent Fund Committee were requested to make the arrangements for the 
election on the 27th October next:— 
L Froom, William Jacobs. Age 63. Member from 184-2. In business in Exeter 
and Brighton, thirty-two years. ‘Losses in business, arising from certain actions entered 
4 Pt° by persons who had used a Sheep Dipping Composition sold by the Candidate ([vide 
Phaim. Journal, vol. xi. pp. 283-292, 333); also ill-health. Two daughters, aged re¬ 
spectively 12 and 14 years, partially dependent upon him. Present means of subsis¬ 
tence derived from occasional employment as dispenser, but is chiefly dependent upon 
his elder children. 
2. Goldfinch, Charlotte. Age 59. Widow of late George Goldfinch, of Goswell 
Road, Member of the Society from 1853 to the time of his death, in 1855. Left with 
six children, and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to continue her husband’s business; has 
now one child dependent upon her. Is occasionally employed by a few friends. 
3. Novis, Thomas. Age 65. Member of the Society from 1841. In business in 
London sixteen years. Feeble health. T vY ife, aged 46, and two children, aged respec¬ 
tively lo^and 8 years, entirely dependent upon him. Present means of subsistence, 
about £25 per annum, arising from employment as collector. 
L Peart, David.— Age 68. Member from 1842. In business in Ewell and else¬ 
where thirty-eight years. Wile, age 40, in ill-health, and two children, aged respec¬ 
tively 11 and 7 years, entirely dependent upon him. Has been engaged at the Epsom 
Literary Institution, at £20 per annum, for the last fifteen mouths, but is at present in¬ 
capacitated by a rheumatic affection. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON AN ANTIDOTE AT ONCE FOR PRUSSIC ACID, ANTIMONY, 
AND ARSENIC. 
BY MESSRS. T. AND H. SMITH. 
Notwithstanding the great number of years that have elapsed since the 
publication, in the £ Lancet,’ of our paper containing an account of a method 
for counteracting the poisonous action of prussic acid when taken into the 
living stomach, and the favourable recognition it has received from the most 
eminent toxicologists, we are not aware of an instance in which it has had 
any application to the saving of life, except in a case which occurred in our 
own experience, when, by our prompt supply of the antidote, the life of a 
lady was no doubt saved. She had swallowed a solution of cyanide of potas¬ 
sium in mistake for a solution of muriate of morphia, both these solutions 
being in her bedroom, and properly labelled. No bad effects followed the 
unfortunate mistake. Our experiments on dogs, detailed in our paper in the 
‘ Lancet, proved beyond a doubt that this antidote is complete and certain. 
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