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COMMENCEMENT OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SESSION. 
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Journal, announcing the Opening Meeting of the Session, to be held on the 
evening of October 6tli. 
The Prizes will be distributed to the successful competitors of last Session, 
and Mr. Deane will address the Students about to commence work. On this 
occasion we hope to see many ladies present. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Report on the Treatment oe Epi¬ 
demic Cholera. By John Murray, 
M.D., Inspector-General of Hospitals, 
Indian Medical Department. 
Transactions op the Odontological 
Society op Great Britain. Yol. YI. 
1867-68. London: Printed for the So¬ 
ciety by Wyman and Son, Great Queen 
Street. 
Transactions op the Epidemiologal 
Society op London. Yol. III. Part 1. 
Sessions 1866-67, 1867-68. London: 
Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 
The Pharmaceutical or Medico-Bo¬ 
tanical Map op the World; showing 
the habitats of most of the plants compris¬ 
ing the Materia Medica. By George 
Barber, Pharmaceutical Chemist, Liver¬ 
pool. 
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Sir,—I think that the attention of all 
chemists should be called to the case re¬ 
ported in your last number. It appears 
from the decision of the Worthing magis¬ 
trates that whoever brings a prescription 
which contains a poison (so called in the 
Pharmacy Act) must ask if the writer is a 
legally qualified practitioner,—now in a large 
dispensing establishment this would be ab¬ 
surd ; or, if not written by one, the patient 
must bring witnesses, etc., which in many 
cases would be impossible. For instance, if a 
gentleman or lady had a recipe for rheuma¬ 
tism containing tinct. opii or any other 
poison, and went to the seaside, how is it 
possible for them to get witnesses ? I think 
that as this case concerns every chemist 
and druggist in the country, this deci¬ 
sion should be appealed against, so as to be 
quite clear as to our liability. I think the 
Act relating to the sale of poisons was never 
intended to apply to a case like this, al¬ 
though in this case the medicine, or ra¬ 
ther lotion, was intended for a criminal 
purpose; and in all probability, if Mr. Berry 
had put the question as to the qualification 
of the writer, he would have answered that 
he was. So how r are we to discern the 
truth in such a case ? Yet such a decision 
must be contrary to the meaning of the 
framers of the clause in the Bill which 
relates to the qualification of the prescriber. 
This should be certainly settled; and if 
funds are wanting,—and we cannot expect 
Mr. Berry to fight our battle, for such it 
really is,—they will be most cheerfully forth¬ 
coming. I for one should feel a pleasure in 
giving my mite for such a cause, and no 
doubt others, and many others, too, would 
do the same. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
W. S. 
The Chlorodyne Controversy. 
Sir,—You are doing good by a fair discus¬ 
sion of the chlorodyne question. I have 
tried or prescribed extensively, in dispensary 
and other practice, the three varieties of 
chlorodyne now in common pharmaceutical 
use. Each one has a distinctive peculiarity 
differing from the other. One, I find, re¬ 
lieves pain better than the two others ; one 
gives headache, and rather disappoints ; and 
one of them is very useful in the diseases 
usually advertised, such as diarrhoea, can¬ 
cer, amenorrhoea, fever, cholera, etc.; so they 
