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few pence is placed in a box, labelled so as to induce the public to believe that 
it* is cod-liver oil in a concentrated, convenient, and palatable form, and forth¬ 
with sold for five shillings. Surely this is obtaining money under false pre¬ 
tences. 
The method by which the analysis of this quack imposture was effected was 
simply the application of the ordinary chemical tests for saccharine bodies, the 
presence of one of which was indicated by the labels. That it was wholly milk- 
sugar was proved by ascertaining that a given quantity of it, dissolved in water, 
produced the same kind and degree of effect on a ray of plane polarized light as 
was exerted by a similar quantity of milk-sugar of known purity. “ Chlorine, 
bromine, iodine, phosphorus, and sulphur, etc/’ were, of course, absent. 
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The Chairman observed that impositions such as that just brought under 
their notice, were deserving of exposure, and there were no doubt many similar 
cases that might be made subjects for future communications. The case of 
opoponax, alluded to in the last number of the 4 Pharmaceutical Journal,’ was 
not the only case of the sort. 
Professor Redwood said the opoponax case belonged to England, but that 
which Dr. Attfield had alluded to appeared to have been an importation from 
abroad, and from a country where they were given to understand such things 
were managed better than in this country. He certainly could not understand 
how so flagrant an imposition as this was could be practised with impunity in 
France, where stringent laws existed with reference to the sale of secret or patent 
medicines. 
Mr. Jones believed the so-called “ saccharide of cod-liver oil, ’ although pre¬ 
pared in France, emanated from an English house there. He had had some 
opportunities of observing the state of pharmacy, and the operation of the laws 
relating to it in France, and could say that although an imposition such as that 
alluded to would be punishable by the existing law there, yet evasions of the 
law were frequent, and quackery was practised to a great extent. An altera¬ 
tion in the law relating to pharmacy was under consideration by the trench 
Government. 
THE MEDICINE STAMP AND LICENCE ACTS. 
Professor Redwood made some remarks on this subject, the substance of 
which is embodied in an article inserted in another part of the present number 
of this Journal. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING, EDINBURGH. 
The first meeting of the present session took place in St. George s Hall, I19a, George 
Street, on Monday evening, 13th inst., at nine o’clock, there was a good attendance. 
Mr. Hemp, President, in the chair. 
The following remarks were made by the President:— 
Gentlemen,—In accordance with the usual practice at the first meeting of the session, 
it falls to me, as your President for the time being, to begin the proceedings with a few 
remarks on some of those matters which affect us as a Society, and in which w r e take an 
interest as Pharmaceutists. 
But before doing so, I desire to thank you for calling me a second time to occupy 
such an honourable position, and to assure you that while I would gladly have been 
relieved from the responsibility of office, and seen the duties of the chair entrusted to 
abler hands, it will give me pleasure to attend to them for another year, and be my en¬ 
deavour to do so with increased zeal and efficiency. 
I desire also to say that I have much pleasure in again meeting so many of the mem¬ 
bers and friends of the Pharmaceutical Society, some of whom have been for many years 
