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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[April 12, 1873. 
though it has solved the qucestio vexata of forcible feeding 
in mania ; while the occasional production of erythema 
fugax by the excessive use of hydrate of chloral receives 
ample illustration. 
On the whole the volume before us cannot be recom¬ 
mended as a perfect mirror of the half-year’s progress in 
medicine. It contains much that the general practitioner 
will find acceptable ; but the competent physician or sur¬ 
geon will glean but small sustenance from it. He may 
ask for bread only to be offered a Stone. 
©Mtuanr. 
Notice has been received of the deaths of the follow¬ 
ing :— 
On the 21st of March, 1873, Mr. Francis William Joy, 
Pharmaceutical Chemist, of Cardiff. Mr. Joy joined the 
Pharmaceutical Society in 1857, and during the greater 
part of the intervening time actively and efficiently served 
the Society as its Local Secretary. He died of bronchitis 
at the age of 42 years. 
On the 21st of March, 1873, Mr. Josiah Steward, 
Pharmaceutical Chemist, of Trimpley, near Bewdley. 
Aged 69 years. Mr. Steward was a Member of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, having been one of its Founders. 
On the 7th of December, Mr. Thomas Garnett, Chemist 
and Druggist, of Kendal. Aged 33 years. 
On the 4th of April, 1873, Mr. William Maudsley, 
Chemist and Druggist, of 260, Tottenham Court Road. 
Aged 36 years. 
|fofcs anil (fumes. 
[334].—BLEACHING FERNS.— Mr. George Delves 
and C. W. wish to be informed of a good process for 
bleaching ferns and rendering them transparent. 
DIARRHOEA AND CHOLERA MIXTURE. — 
“A. £. C.f asks for the formula prescribed by Sir John 
Fisher, late Chief Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police. 
The following is taken from a letter forwarded by that 
gentleman to the Times, of August 3, 1866 :— 
Aromatic Confection.6 drachm. 
1 
2 
1 
55 
oz. 
Tincture of Opium . . . 
Tincture of Catechu . . . 
Aromatic Spirit of Ammonia 
Chloric Ether. 
Peppermint Water . . . 
Mix. Three tablespoonfuls to be taken every three or 
four hours until the diarrhoea ceases. 
2 drachm. 
13 
oz. 
The following journals have been received:—The ‘British 
Medical Journal,’ April 5; the ‘ Medical Times and 
Gazette,’ April 5; the ‘Lancet,’ April 5; the ‘London 
Medical Record,’ April 2; ‘ Medical Press and Circular,’ 
April 4; ‘Nature,’ April 5; ‘Chemical News,’ April 5; 
‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ April 5 ; the ‘ Grocer,’ April 5 ; 
‘ Journal of the Society of Arts,’ April 5 ; ‘ Grocery News,’ 
April 5 ; ‘ Produce Markets Review,’ April 5; ‘ Scientific 
American,’ April 5; ‘Brewers’ Guardian,’April 8; ‘Jour¬ 
nal de Pharmacie et de Chimie ’ for April; * Moniteur 
Scientifique-Quesneville ’ for April; ‘ Practitioner ’ for 
April; ‘Journal of Applied Science’ for April; ‘British 
Journal of Dental Science’ for April; ‘Educational Times’ 
for April; Food, Water, and Air, for April. 
*** No notice can be talcen of anonymous communica¬ 
tions. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenti¬ 
cated by the name and address of the writer; not necessarily 
for 'publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. 
Benevolent Fund. 
Sir,—I cannot help expressing my surprise at the letter 
from Mr. Walter B. Clark, of Leicester, which appeared in 
your Journal last week; he thinks “the Benevolent Fund 
is at last exciting some attention.” 
I do not know what has so suddenly brought about this 
discovery, but it does seem strange that when we have 
elected annually two annuitants, until we have now thirteen 
suc^i on the list, each receiving thirty pounds per annum, 
and when every deserving applicant has received relief, 
I say it does seem strange that the vitality of the Bene¬ 
volent Fund should only now present itself to Mr. Clark. 
Happily other members of our Society held sounder views 
on the foundation of a charitable trust, and did not with¬ 
hold their contributions lest men of the future only should 
benefit by them. But for this, and the proper investing of 
the unexpended subscriptions and donations at the end of 
each year, no unfortunate brother chemist or destitute 
widow would have had the assurance of a certain income to 
solace the remainder of his or her declining years; and what, 
perhaps, would be worse than that, even those who have 
been elected as annuitants might be suddenly bereft of their 
annuities if the Trustees of the Fund adopted Mr. Clark’s 
view. It must surely be apparent that, when the money is 
capitalized, it is “at once devoted to charitable purposes.” 
Where casual relief cnlyis granted by an association, it may 
be justifiable to expend all the subscriptions received, but it 
is a well-known rule in societies granting pensions, to keep 
those pensions within the limit of the income arising from 
capital; and I trust that wdiolesome regulation will never 
be neglected by us. 
When genuine cases are refused assistance (and Mr. 
Clark does not cite one such), it will be time to ask the 
Council to pursue a different policy; but when month after 
month grants are made, and in the common course of things 
demands on the Fund multiply, it seems to me that those 
who have the power to give are scarcely justified in with¬ 
holding their assistance. 
Few men in our ranks have possessed a more active spirit 
of benevolence than our late friend George Waugh; few 
men had better means of knowing how much was done, 
how much left undone by the Council in this matter; no 
man gave more liberally from first to last. Let his judg¬ 
ment as to the usefulness and proper appropriation, as well 
as his example in support of our Benevolent Fund, be a 
guide and example to us all! 
Piccadilly, April 8th, 1873. George W. Sandford. 
Legality v. Illegality.—An Explanation. 
Sir,—I am so inadequately and unfavourably reported 
in the two last Journal reports of the meetings of the 
Pharmaceutical Council, that in simple self-defence, as 
well as in the interest of the question I have had in hand, 
I must claim from you a little space that I may fairly state 
my position. 
Without an intention to garble a report, the sins of 
omission may be so flagrant as to render it worthless, 
misleading, and mischievous. These remarks apply to 
the reports of the observations made in support of the 
amendments which I moved at the March and April 
meetings of the Council. 
At the March meeting I read and commented upon the 
annotations of Mr. Flux on the draft of the proposed 
amended bye-laws, and I also referred to Mr. Flux’s 
remarks made before the Parliamentary Committee. The 
annotations and remarks were in direct opposition to the 
views of the majority of the Council. The whole of this 
is withheld from the report. 
At the last meeting of the Council I again moved an 
amendment, which I based upon Mr. Flux’s opinion so 
deliberately given. I thought it was scarcely possible to 
withhold the publication of the amendment. I stated at 
the same time that I moved in this manner, because Mr. 
Flux’s opinions, as pited by me at the previous meeting, 
