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MEDICATED DESS ABIES AND SUPPOSITORIES. 
stamp on the bottle. The following letter from the Commissioners is confirma¬ 
tory of the above. 
Yours truly, 
John Hurst, 
Louth, May 11th, 1866. 
“ Chlokodyne. 
“ Dose for a grown person, from 15 to 30 drops in w r ater.” 
(Copy.) 
“ Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, 
“ 2nd May, 1866. 
“ Sir,—The Board have had before them your letter of the 23rd ult., requesting to be 
informed whether the label, a copy of which was enclosed, if affixed to a bottle con¬ 
taining ‘ Chlorodyne ’ would render that preparation liable to the medicine stamp duty, 
and in reply I am directed to acquaint you that a liability to medicine stamp duty would 
not be contracted by the use of the label in question. I transmit herewith for your 
information an extract from the Act of Parliament showing the condition necessary to 
constitute a liability to stamp duty in respect of preparations of this nature. 
“ I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
“T. Sargent. 
a Mr. John Hurst.” 
EARLY CLOSING. 
TO THE EDITOE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sir,—In reply to a letter in the May number, signed “ A Master,” I wish to 
say that I am doing all I can to try and reduce the hours of business to a 
minimum, and shall be only too happy to fall in with any useful suggestion 
from any Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
I propose 8 p.m. for the six summer mdnths, and 7.30 p.m. for the winter, as 
being reasonable hours for closing. Hoping that the subject may be agitated 
to some purpose, 
I am, Sir, yours, 
May 18 th, 1866. One in Business. 
MEDICATED PESSARIES AND SUPPOSITORIES. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Gentlemen,—I shall feel obliged if you will grant me a few lines in your 
Journal, in reply to Mr. Brady’s remark (in your May number, page 550) on 
the shape of my conical medicated pessaries and suppositories, to observe that 
the shape of the same was determined by Dr. Greenhalgh, at whose suggestion 
I first gave the manufacture of pessaries and suppositories consideration, and by 
whom they were exhibited at the Obstetrical Society of London, in November 
last, since when, they have been approved of, and extensively prescribed by 
Dr. Arthur Farre, and many other practitioners in town and country. 
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, 
John L. Bosley. 
128, Brompton Road, S. W., May 10 th, 1866. 
