ANNUAL MEETING. 
781 
principles upon which the Act was granted ? I think it would, and I should quite ex¬ 
pect, under such circumstances, that finding we failed to carry out the intentions of 
Government, the defect wmuld be made good by the summary adoption by Parliament of 
regulations which would prove far more irksome than these which most acknowledge 
to be practical, while rejecting them because of imagined coercion. I beg, therefore, to 
move:— 
“That, by virtue and in exercise of all powers and authorities in this behalf, the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain do hereby resolve and prescribe that from and 
after the day , the following shall, within the meaning of the 
Pharmacy Act, 18G8, be regulations as to the keeping, dispensing, and selling of poisons, 
videlicet :— 
“1. In the keeping of poisons, each poison shall be kept in a box, bottle, vessel, or 
package, distinctly labelled with the name of the article and the word Puison. 
“2. In the keeping of poisons, all or any or either of the following systems shall be 
used:— 
“I. The boxes, bottles, vessels, or packages, containing poison shall be kept apart 
from other boxes, bottles, vessels, or packages, and shall be so kept in an 
apartment, cupboard, compartment, or drawer, set apart for dangerous 
articles. 
Or if not so kept apart. 
“II. The bottles or vessels used in any shop or dispensary to contain poison shall 
be distinguishable to the touch, as by being angular, fluted, or corrugated, 
and shall be unlike the bottles or vessels used to contain articles which are 
not poisonous or dangerous, in the same shop or dispensary. 
Or otherwise . 
“ III, The bottles or vessels used in any shop] or dispensary to contain poison 
shall be tied over, capped, or secured in a manner distinguishable from the 
way in which any bottles or vessels not used to contain poisonous or danger¬ 
ous articles used in the same shop or dispensary may be tied over, capped, 
or secured. 
“3. In dispensing and selling poisons, all liniments, embrocations, and lotions con¬ 
taining them shall be sent out or supplied in distinctive bottles, or bottles made distinc¬ 
tive ; and labels, containing some word or words of caution, showing that the contents 
are not intended to be taken, in addition to the name of the compound or instructions 
for use, shall be affixed thereto.” 
These regulations are suggested to this meeting by the Council after very careful 
consideration, and it will be for the meeting either to adopt, reject, or modify them, as 
in its wisdom it sees fit. The power is not given to the Council to make anything of 
this sort obligatory ; it is entirely delegated to the Society, and the Council have been 
most anxious that the feeling of the whole trade shall be consulted in this matter, and 
this is proved by their referring the discussion to the Annual Meeting. The Privy 
Council have rather urged this matter forward, and have been anxious that some re¬ 
gulations should be adopted at an earlier period, but the Council felt that the opinion 
of the trade could not really be so well obtained at any special meeting called for the 
purpose, and have, therefore, put it off for the last few months, in order that the feeling 
of the whole trade may be evoked, and that any decision come to shall be that of the 
trade at large, and not of the Council of the Society. 
Mr. Haselden said he felt some diffidence in seconding the adoption of these regu¬ 
lations, knowing there would be objections offered to them from various quarters. 
However, from what he had heard and seen he believed the objections likely to be 
made were framed first upon a misconception of the regulations. It had been sup¬ 
posed, for instance, by some, that they would be obliged to adopt one of the three 
modes pointed out, but this was not so evidently; they might adopt either one of the 
three, or the whole, as best suited their convenience. Another objection was, that it 
would be impracticable to carry them out; he would not detain the meeting by going 
into details, but he had himself, during the last ten years, carried them out practi¬ 
cally, more* or less, in the ordinary conduct of Iris business, and had found no ditll- 
