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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[January 13, 1873. 
and told the constable to bring the person from whom 
the powder was bought, on the next hearing of the 
case.— Echo. 
Reported Arsenical Poisoning of Seventeen 
Persons. 
A singular case of wholesale poisoning is reported 
irom Hampton-in-Arden, near Biimingham. A provision 
dealer in the village had a quantity of “collared” pork 
in his shop, and portions of it were purchased by a 
number of the poorer inhabitants on Saturday. After 
partaking of the pork seventeen persons were attacked 
with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. Medical men 
were called in, and all the sufferers recovered. The re¬ 
mainder of the meat has been seized by the police.— 
Echo. 
Disgraceful, if True. 
At the Westminster Police Court on Saturday, Jan. 11, 
a young man was among the applicants to the magis¬ 
trate^ for advice and assistance. He wanted to know 
whetner the keeper of a chemist and druggist’s shop 
could not be punished for being in a state of drunken¬ 
ness while carrying on hi3 business and serving cus¬ 
tomers. He said he went into a chemist’s shop on Satur¬ 
day morning in the neighbourhood of the court, and, 
after waiting twenty minutes to be served, was surprised 
to find the keeper of the shop crawl up from off the 
floor fearfully. drunk, and wishing to know what the 
applicant required, but he would not allow such a. dan¬ 
gerous person to serve him. Mr. Arnold could not see 
how he could interfere; people had better not deal with 
such a man, that was about the best remedy he could 
suggest. Applicant observed that a woman came in 
with a child and complained that he had given her a 
powder for her baby which had greatly injured it. The 
neighbours said he was eccentric, and the police re- 
poi ted f hat frequent complaints were made of the wrong 
drugs being served by the chemist. Mr. Arnold said 
he could not prevent a man getting drunk in his own 
house. He could not offer better advice than he had 
already given. If, however, the man sold drugs to per¬ 
se ns which injured them, or to young persons, then he 
could be made amenable to the law. Applicant said 
the people .who complained w r ere poor, and could not 
lose their time.— Times. 
GEORGE WAUGH. 
Our readers will learn with unfeigned regret that one 
who held a prominent position among the early sup¬ 
porters and promoters of the Pharmaceutical Society 
one who long filled the office of Councillor, who was 
Vice-president in 1850, and was often urged but per¬ 
sistently declined to fill the Presidential chair, has 
passed from amongst us, and that the familiar voice and 
genial countenance of George Waugh will no longer 
exercise the influence they have so often exerted °in 
smoothing the ruffled waters of debate, or adding dig¬ 
nity to the deliberations of the council chamber. 0 Mr. 
Waugh was one of those who took an active part in the 
formation of the Society, and a deep interest in the cause 
of pharmaceutical education. The character and posi¬ 
tion he had acquired, both morally and intellectually, 
togethci with his reputation as a high class pharmacist, 
gave to him an influence which wai beneficially exercised 
in moderating and controlling occasional tendencies to 
extreme measures on the part of those who took an in¬ 
terest in pharmaceutical politics. His opinion and ad¬ 
vice were frequently sought by his friend and neighbour 
Jacob Bell, to whose measures he generally, although 
by.no means uniformly, gave his support. After Mr. 
Beil s death, Mr. Waugh may be said to have been the 
originator and one of the most active promoters of the 
Jacob Bell Testimonial Fund. 
During the many years that he occupied a seat at the 
Council Board of the Pharmaceutical Society, he was 
regular in his attendance at councils and committees, and 
took part in the discussion of most subjects of importance. 
He was more given, however, to pass judgment on the 
measures of others than to originate any himself. In 
common with what is frequently observed in those who 
exercise a, controlling influence upon the decisions of 
others, his own opinions were not hastily formed, and he 
may sometimes have subjected himself to the charge of 
inconsistency by the way in which his own decisions 
were arrived at. During the early history of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, Mr. Waugh was one of those well- 
known London chemists whose names appeared from 
year to year on the list of its Council, and who were at 
last thought to partake too much of the character of 
hereditary councillors. Mr. Waugh indeed was himself 
one of the first to contribute to the breaking up of tho 
metropolitan character of the Council by withdrawing 
from it to make room for a greater infusion of new blood. 
He died on Sunday, the 12th inst., at his residence, 
Queensborough Terrace, Kensington Gardens, aged 
seventy-one, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery 
on Iriday, the 17th. By the death of Mr. Waugh, 
another link is broken in the chain wdiich connected the 
pharmacy of a past generation with that of the present 
day. 
Notice has also been received of the death of the fol¬ 
lowing :— 
On the 10th January, 1873, Mr. Edward Fowler, 
Pharmaceutical Chemist, of Bedale, Yorkshire, aged 
forty-two. Mr. Fowler had been a member of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society since 1853. 
t Suddenly, on January 9th, 1872, at 40, Aldersgate 
Street, E.C., James Davies Parker, upwards of twenty 
years the confidential clerk of Messrs. Herrings and Co., 
wholesale druggists, London. 
Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry. By Wm. 
Geo. Valentin, F.C.S. London: J. and A. Churchill. 
1872. 
This is a new edition of the first part of the ‘ Labora¬ 
tory Text-Book of Practical Chemistry,’ published by 
the author about two years ago. It has been slightly en¬ 
larged by the addition of a number of experiments, and 
by the further development of some of the explanatory 
and theoretical matter. The author hopes “ that this 
first volume may now take rank as a suitable text-book for 
elementary classes preparing for the chemical examina¬ 
tions wdiich are held annually under the Science and 
Art Department.” Our conviction is that this hope will 
not be disappointed, and that Mr. Valentin’s new volume 
will certainly find a very wide circulation, and meet with 
a very cordial reception both from students and teachers. 
A\ e say this because w r e feel bound to reiterate the com¬ 
mendation wdiich we took occasion to express in a former 
volume wdth regard to the original work. Both are 
very excellent books, and wdll satisfactorily supply an 
undoubted demand. The experienced author will, how¬ 
ever, we trust, forgive us if w^e point out one or two con¬ 
siderations wdiich in the compilation of a work of this 
kind deserve to be kept in view. In the first place with 
regard to the experiments. 
Inasmuch as detailed directions are given for the per¬ 
formance of each experiment, it may be assumed, we 
suppose, that they are to be followed pretty closely. 
Does the author really mean to say that all, or even any 
large proportion of the students under his charge do ab¬ 
solutely perform the experiments as indicated ? If so, each 
student would require at the outset to provide himself with 
