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the habit of taking. Erom the evidence, it appeared 
that the deceased had become addicted to intemperate 
habits, and had also contracted a habit of taking lau¬ 
danum, morphia, and similar drugs, through which his 
life had beer, on two previous occasions, nearly sacrificed. 
His friends had more than once warned the druggists in 
the town against supplying him with anything of the 
kind, but he still seemed able to procure laudanum by 
the plan, it is supposed, of sending boys into shops for 
small quantities. On Thursday night he went to the 
•shop of Mr. Cockburn, druggist, and asked for three 
drachms of the solution of morphia, but Sir. Cockburn 
■declined, saying that he never supplied it except on the 
order of a medical man. The next morning, about half¬ 
past ten, he went in and asked for a small phial contain¬ 
ing fourpcnnyworth, or nearly an ounce, of laudanum, 
which Mr. Cockburn gave him, believing his representa¬ 
tions that he wanted it for a lotion, as he suffered from 
■rheumatism in his hip. But even this, Mr. Cockburn 
said to the jury, was not an excessive quantity for any 
person who habitually used the drug, as he had seen 
women drink off" more than that in the shop. Between 
twelve and one on the day named he was met not far from 
his house, reeling very much, and was assisted home. 
Dr. Welford was called in, who, seeing the danger, 
drove at once to the Infirmary and brought the house 
surgeon, Dr. Hopgood, with the stomach pump, which, 
when applied, brought off the laudanum mixed with 
alcoholic spirits. As deceased continued to get worse, 
how r ever, he was removed to the infirmary, where every 
effort was made to keep him awake by shouting at, 
pinching, and walking him about the floor, but he 
.gradually sank into the fatal slumber and about four 
o’clock expired. 
The Coroner said that the constable had been round 
to the druggists, but Mr. Cockburn was the only one 
who would admit having sold deceased any drugs. It wms 
possible he might have obtained a large quantity by 
getting other persons to procure it for him in small 
•quantities. 
Mr. Cockburn stated that deceased was never in his 
shop before, and he was not aware that he was addicted 
to the use of opiates. 
The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the 
•above facts, there being no one to blame in the matter.— 
Newcastle Daily Chronicle. 
The Charge of Fbaud against a Herbalist. 
On Friday, January 3, Henry Jackson, thirty-five, 
described as imperfectly educated, was charged at the 
Hull Borough Sessions with fraudulently obtaining from 
•John Richardson certain sums of money under false 
pretences. The evidence was similar to that given at the 
preliminary hearings of the case, an abstract of which 
.has already been given. 
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Recorder 
igentenced him to twelve months’ hard labour. 
ADOLPHE-GEORGES GUILLEMETTE. 
The death of one of the most distinguished French 
pharmaeiens, Adolphe-Georges Guillemette, at the age 
of 64 years, took place recently. On the 28th of Octo¬ 
ber the last honours w T erc paid to him in the presence of 
a numerous concourse of relations and friends, when an 
allocution was pronounced over his tomb by M. Gobley, 
in the name of the Paris Societe de Pharmacie. 
Born in 1808, at Magnv, near Caen, M. Guillemette 
^commenced his studies as a pharmacicn with an uncle at 
Bretteville. He afterwards went to Paris, and had the 
good fortune to obtain an engagement with M. Boutron- 
Charlard, under whose superintendence he perfected 
himself in the art of pharmacy. Being about to make 
an attempt to better his position he received an offer 
from M. Boutron, his employer, to succeed him in his 
business, and he thus, in 1835, became head of one of 
the most important pharmacies in Paris. In this posi¬ 
tion he superintended with great ability the production 
of medicaments, and at one of the national exhibitions 
he showed numerous crystallized products of opium of 
surpassing beauty. 
M. Guillemette also published several researches of 
great interest. In concert with M. Boutron he showed the 
identity withmanniteof grenadine, a crystalline substance 
obtained from the pomegranate, which had previously 
been looked upon as a peculiar principle. The crystal- 
lizable substance to which the melilot owes its odour 
was looked upon as an acid substance until Guillemette 
showed that it was neutral, and identical in properties 
and composition with the coumarine of the Tonqua 
bean. After thirty-five years of incessant labour, M. 
Guillemette was looking forward to the enjoyment of 
the competency he had won, when the events of the late 
war caused him to leave Paris with his family, and the 
anxieties caused thereby probably sowed the seeds of the 
malady which carried him off after an illness of scarcely 
three weeks. 
N otice has been received of the death of the follow¬ 
ing :— 
On the 6th June, 1872, Mr. John Taylor, Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemist, of Preston. Mr. Taylor had been a mem¬ 
ber of the Pharmaceutical Society from its foundation. 
Aged G8. 
On the 21st December, 1872, Mr. Joseph Templeton, 
Chemist and Druggist, of Liverpool. Aged 47. 
dotes ants (Queries. 
[326].—SOLUTION OF SULPHURETTED HY¬ 
DROGEN IN GLYCERINE.—Can any correspon¬ 
dent inform me whether a solution of sulphuretted hy¬ 
drogen in glycerine can be preserved for any length of 
time without change F I have tested the strength of a 
sample, recently obtained from a London wholesale 
house, by precipitating with nitrate of lead, washing, 
drying, and weighing the sulphide so obtained, and find 
that it contains 210 volumes of the gas in 100 measures 
—or little more than double the strength of an aqueous 
solution. Its merit, therefore, must arise from its 
keeping qualities, and regarding these I ask the favour 
of information.—J. F. Brown, Dover. 
[324.]—SYRUPUS CALCIS LACTO-PHOSPHA- 
TIS.—P. Vincent (Paris) forwards the following for 
the Syrupus Calcis Lacto-Phosphatis, and states that 
having made the syrup several times with the same 
formula, he can strongly recommend it, as it continues 
to keep its clear appearance for some time. 
Os Ustum .10 grams. 
Hydrochloric Acid.20 grams. 
Liquid Ammonia.13 grams. 
Concentrated Lactic Acid \ 
Distilled water j ’ ‘ ' 
Sugar. 528 grams. 
Leave together for some time the bone ash and hydro¬ 
chloric acid, until effervescence ceases, then add distilled 
water 500 grs., precipitate with the ammonia, filter, and 
well wash the precipitate with distilled water, until 
washing cease to give a precipitate with solution of 
nitrate of silver. Leave to drain for twelve hours, after 
gently heat in a porcelain capsule, and add sufficient 
lactic acid to dissolve the precipitate, add sufficient dis¬ 
tilled water to make the product weigh 272 grams., 
filter and add the sugar, make dissolve with a gentlo 
heat. 
