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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[August 27, 1870. 
macy Act of 1868 brought into operation, provides 
adequate security to that very important effect.” 
We will next week give further details from this 
report, the publication of which marks the commence¬ 
ment of an important era in the history of the prac¬ 
tice of pharmacy in this country: the era of universal 
and improved pharmaceutical education, of State re¬ 
cognition, and of the consolidation, as one united 
body, of the pharmacists of Great Britain. 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FUND FOR THE 
SICK AND WOUNDED. 
We are glad to find that the suggestion put for¬ 
ward last week, has met with very cordial approval 
and recognition, not only from Pharmaceutists, hut 
also from the Committee, as will he seen from the 
letter of the Chairman, inserted in another column. 
Contributions are already coming in, and our con¬ 
temporary the British Medical Journal in speak¬ 
ing of the appeal as timely and well-placed, expresses 
the belief that, on this occasion, the numerous mem¬ 
bers of the trade will respond to it as liberally as 
they did, on a former occasion, to a private appeal in 
favour of the Garibaldian volunteers. In the letter 
already referred to will be found a list of the articles 
which the medical members of the Committee, Dr. 
Sieveking and Dr. Pollock, have agreed upon as 
being more immediately requisite. The mode of 
labelling and packing to be adopted is also pointed 
out there. The following is a list of the contribu¬ 
tions received or promised up to the time of going to 
□0« s . d* 
11 Bestia” ,....... ...... 0 5 0 
Binge, Thomas, 23, Stockbridge Terrace .... 0 5 0 
Bishop, Alfred, Mile End, N.E... 1 1 0 
Blake, Sandford and Blake, 47, Piccadilly, W. 2 2 0 
Bourdas, Isaiah, Pont Street, S.W. ... 2 2 0 
Bremxidge, Elias, 17, Bloomsbury Sq., W.C.. 110 
Buckle, C. F., 77, Gray’s Inn Road. 0 10 0 
Crowther, T., Tickhill.. 1 9 0 
Deane, Henry, Clapham. 1 0 0 
Dinneford and Co., 172, New Bond Street ..220 
Floyd, J. F., Bury St. Edmund’s. 1 0 0 
Garle, John, Bickley.... 1 1 0 
Harvey and Reynolds, Leeds. 5 0 0 
Lake, Richard, Greenwood Road . 0 10 0 
Passmore, F., 17, Bloomsbury Square . 0 5 0 
Savage, W. D., Brighton.. 110 
Sutton, Francis, Norwich . 1 1 0 
Tibbs, Frederick, Blackfriars Road .. 0 10 6 
Wagstaff,J.H., James St., Westbourne Terrace 10 0 
Whitfield, J., Scarborough. 0 10 0 
Per Mr. Sturton, Local Secretary, 
Peterborough :— £. s. d. 
Bright, Richard .. 0 10 0 
Heanley, Marshall .. 0 10 0 
Loveridge, T. P. 0 2 6 
Negus, F. J. 0 2 6 
Parker, John Samuel . 0 2 6 
Parnell, John . 0 10 0 
Pearson, John H.... 0 10 0 
Sturton and Sons... 0 10 0 
Whit well, John . 0 10 0 
Willson, Stephen .. 0 10 0 
- 3 17 61 
Per Mr. Mays, Local Secretary, £. s. d. 
South Shields :— £. s. d. 
Crosby, J. B. 0 10 0 
Forrest, Robert. 0 10 0 
Hudson, Thomas. 0 10 6 
Mays, R. J. J., and Son... 1 1 0 
Oates, Thomas. 0 10 0 
Williamson, B. and E. 0 10 0 
■- 3 11 6 
John Bell and Co., 338, Oxford Street:— 
Two boxes of medicine, to the amount of 25 0 0 
containing: — 
I. Opium pills, 1 grain each, in bottles 
containing 4 dozen each. 
Morphia pills, I grain each, in bottles. 
Quinine pills, 2 grains each, in boxes. 
Chloroform, \ lb. bottles. 
Laudanum, in 4 oz. bottles. 
Sal volatile, in 4 oz. bottles. 
Citro-tartrate of soda, in 4 oz. bottles. 
Lint. 
II. 50 lb. prepared oakum for surgical purposes. 
J. Robbins and Co., 372, Oxford Street, W .:— 
7 lb. lint. 
12 yards adhesive plaster. 
1 dozen bottles styptic colloid. 
J. Robinson, Orford Hill, Norwich :— 
A quantity of old linen. 
1-oz. bottle of citrate of iron and quinia. 
1-oz. bottle of sulphate of quinine. 
A. P. Towle, Manchester:— 
100 1-oz. bottles of chlorodyne. 
The Lancet , in stating that the Council of the 
Hoyal College of Surgeons has determined to remove 
from the list of its members the name of Edwin 
Lowe, lately convicted for administering a drug with 
criminal intent, says,—“ We cannot hut admire tins 
vigilance on the part of the Council and applaud the 
result to which it has led. But we would most re¬ 
spectfully inquire whether it might not be possible 
to carry similar vigilance a step further, and to re¬ 
move one or two notorious persons from the list be¬ 
fore they have graduated in honours at the Old 
Bailey. When a man is actually undergoing a crimi¬ 
nal sentence, it matters little to any one whether he 
is a Member of the Hoyal College of Surgeons or 
not; but a career tending to the former distinction 
might sometimes be nipped in the bud if the higher 
officials of the profession were empowered to warn 
and to punish before A 22 could legitimately inter¬ 
fere.” 
The idea expressed in this note applies no less to 
the practice of pharmacy than it does to that of me¬ 
dicine ; in both cases a judicious regard to the 
axiom that “ prevention is better than cine ” might 
do much to remove professional abuses, and to do 
away with trade grievances. 
It appears from evidence given before the Com¬ 
mons’ Select Committee on the Abyssinian Expedi¬ 
tion that at the sale of surplus stores the loss on 
medicines alone amounted to .£35,829. 
