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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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wood creasote in the market. On trying several sam¬ 
ples, only one of them, according to the test proposed by 
Morson, indicated that it was wood creasote. Mr. 
Remington stated that his experiments indicate that 
glycerine would make a clear solution with all creasotes 
he had tested except Morson’s; and Professor Maisch 
remarked that Fliickiger had asserted that glycerine was 
not a reliable test for German wood creasote. 
(To be continued.) 
PARIS SOCIETE DE PHARMACIE. 
At the sitting of this Society on the 7th of August, 
under the presidency of M. Stanislaus Martin, M. 
Adrian shortly described some researches by M. Mondet 
upon squill. "The author had operated upon some squill 
collected in Algiers from which he had obtained two 
products—one diuretic and non-poisonous, scillitine; 
Ihe other having an acrid taste and very poisonous, 
which he described under the name of skulleine. 
M. Marais remarked that M. Mondet had really re¬ 
verted to antiquated ideas upon this subject; it was now 
admitted that, contrary to the opinion of Vogel and 
'Tilloy, only one active principle existed in squill. 
MM. Delpech, Mehu, Vigier aine, Duquesnel and 
Mayet, were appointed as members of the Commission 
of Prizes for 1872. 
M. Bussy described M. Vial’s process of printing by 
means of nitrate of silver. He presented to the Society 
an album containing various designs printed upon 
•cloth by this process. 
M. Limousin recalled the fact that paper impregnated 
with nitrate of silver is reduced by free hydrogen. He 
illustrated this by directing a current of hydrogen upon 
white paper which he had marked in several places with 
•solution of nitrate of silver. The previously invisible 
writing immediately became visible, assuming a black 
colour. 
M. Baudrimont wished to draw the attention of the 
Society afresh to the question, how best to avoid errors 
from the substitution of one substance for another. He 
read a memoir which he believed to contain a solution of 
the problem, and at its conclusion requested that a com¬ 
mittee should be appointed to consider the subject, and 
that a copy of his paper should be sent to every member 
of the Society, in order that a thorough discussion of it 
might be taken at a future meeting. 
M. Buignet said that a committee appointed in No¬ 
vember, 1867, had made an analogous report, which had 
received great publicity, and some of the measures which 
it had proposed had been adopted in practice. Never¬ 
theless, he thought the proposition of M. Baudrimont 
of sufficient importance to justify the Society in sub¬ 
mitting the subject to a fresh investigation. 
M. Limousin, in conjunction with M. Lebaigue, had 
made some experiments which induced them to think 
that it would be useful to introduce into certain poi¬ 
sonous medicaments an inert colouring matter ; for in¬ 
stance, a few drops of a dilute solution of fuchsine in 
poisonous salts before crystallization. 
M. Roucher thought that all these modifications were 
good, but they would have no real efficacy unless they 
received a legal sanction; they ought to be submitted 
to the commission appointed to consider the changes to 
be made in the law regulating the practice of pharmacy. 
It was finally decided to remit the subject to the con¬ 
sideration of a new commission, consisting of MM. 
Baudrimont, Mayet, Lebaigue, Limousin, Schaeuffele, 
Vigier aine, and Grassi, and that a copy of M. Baudri- 
mont’s paper should be sent to each member of the 
.Society. 
M. Bourgoin detailed the result of the analytical re¬ 
searches upon the leaves of Boldo, undertaken in con¬ 
junction with M; C. Verne. The other papers read 
were one on “ Curare,” by M. Mayet fils; and one on the 
^‘Preparation of Tar Water,” by M. Teillet. 
|MlhnttntOT an»J Into fmetbinp. 
Prosecutions under the New Adulteration Act. 
Several prosecutions under the Food Adulteration Act 
came before the Bolton magistrates on Monday, Oct. 14. 
A grocer named Hurst was summoned for selling ^ lb. of 
coffee adulterated with chicory, and without either ver¬ 
bally or by other means informing the purchaser that it 
was sold as a mixture of chicory and coffee. The magis¬ 
trates imposed a fine of only 2s. 6 d. and costs, as this was 
the first offence of the kind. The same defendant was 
fined 2s. Q>d. for having sold butter which contained 20-31 
per cent, of water and 7‘63 per cent, of salt, the same 
being highly-coloured and rancid.—A woman named 
M‘Moran was fined 10s. and costs for selling a pint of 
milk which contained an admixture of 20 per cent, ol 
water and only 2 per cent, of cream, whereas there ought 
to have been from 6 to 9 per cent, of cream. 
Selling Petroleum without a License. 
At Tunbridge Petty Sessions, Mr. Arnold, chemist 
and grocer, of Edenbridge, was summoned lor having a 
quantity of petroleum on his premises without a licence. 
Mr. Paimer, who defended, explained that on his appli¬ 
cation the oil had been sent to Mr. Howard, ol 1 unbridge 
Wells (Mr. Wibmer refusing) for an independent test. 
Mr. Alleyne (the magistrates’ clerk) read Mr. Howard’s 
certificate, which was that the oil flashed at 98 . Mi. 
Palmer said Mr. Francis, the inspector, made the oil Hash 
at 94° Some of the oil was sent to a person in London, 
who said that the oil flashed at 104°. The certificate 
with the oil when sold guaranteed that it would not Hash 
under 106°. He only mentioned this to show that Mr. 
Arnold had exercised every diligence and care. He had 
advised Mr. Arnold to take out a licence. The bench 
fined the defendant 10s., and costs, £1. 2s. 8^. Grocery 
News. 
Robbery of Surgical Instruments. 
At the Middlesex Sessions, Edward Marsh, 43, de¬ 
scribed as a “chemist,” and well educated, pleaded 
“ Guilty” to stealing, on the 28th of February last, a 
case of surgical instruments, the property of Mr. George 
Stevens, surgeon, of Stoke Newington ; and on or about 
the same day, a second case of instruments belonging to 
Mr. Wadsworth, surgeon, of Dalston. In both cases the 
prisoner had called at the prosecutors’ houses in their 
absence, and, under pretence of waiting for their return, 
gained access to a room where the instruments were 
kept. 
Reeves, a prison warder, stated that in 1869 the 
prisoner was convicted at the Middlesex sessions, of 
a similar offence, and was sentenced to two years im¬ 
prisonment, on which occasion there were four charges 
of the same kind against him. 
The prisoner, in mitigation, urged that he was suffer¬ 
ing from a painful malady necessitating the use of opiates 
and stole the instruments when under the influence of 
that drug. 
Sir W. Bodkin sentenced him to be kept in penal 
servitude for five years. 
Suicide of a Chemist by Strychnine. 
On Monday, October 14, an adjourned inquiry was 
held at Bethnal Green by Mr. Humphreys, touching the 
death of Mr. Ebenezer Aquilla Toye, aged 27, a chemist, 
who was alleged to have committed suicide by taking 
poison. It appeared from the evidence at the previous 
inquiries, that on Sunday fortnight Mrs. Toye, widow 
of the deceased, upon returning from church found the 
house had been on fire, and her husband was much 
