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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 1, 1870. 
M. E. Gonod, Secretary of tlie Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the French Pharmaceutical Congress, has 
informed his colleagues that on account of grave 
events which occupy the minds of all, it has been 
judged impossible to hold the meeting at Clermont- 
Ferrand at present, and it is accordingly adjourned 
until further arrangements can be made. 
A letter has been addressed to the Editor of the 
Daily Telegraph, signed by Mr. Berkeley Hill and 
Mr. Ernest Hart, disputing the truthfulness of the 
statement made by a special correspondent of that 
journal concerning the medical officers in connection 
with the International Society, “ that in no single 
military ambulance have any of these amateur medical 
assistants taken off their coats, so to speak, and gone 
to work like men at what they are engaged to do.” 
Messrs. Hill and Hart give it as their opinion, 
founded upon personal observation, that, although 
there is a great want of organization, consequent 
upon the sudden and marvellous development of 
the Society’s resources, and the entire absence of 
any previous machinery for the purpose, the conduct 
of the medical officers in the service of the British 
Society has been beyond praise, and characterized 
by the purest motives, as well as the most devoted 
zeal. A large number of Fellows and Members of 
the College of Surgeons, and Doctors of Medicine, 
sinking all distinctions, have willingly devoted them¬ 
selves to dressers’ work. There is a crowd of loafers 
wearing the red cross, but it is not believed that if 
their badges were examined any one of them would 
be found to bear the stamp of the International 
Society, or to be directly attached to the foreign am¬ 
bulances. 
The publishers of the American reprint of the 
Chemical News have decided to discontinue that 
publication, and in its place to offer to all interested 
in the progress of chemistry a new journal, entitled 
The American Chemist, to be devoted to theoretical, 
analytical, and technical chemistry. 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FUND FOR THE 
SICK AND WOUNDED. 
The following contributions have been received 
since last week :— 
t £• s, d* 
Wm. Bray, Buntingford . 0 5 0 
J. D. Fisher, Halifax. 0 5 Q 
J. S. Robinson, St. Leonards-on-Sea. 0 5 0 
R. Rowe, 40, Alfred PI. West, S. Kensington 0 10 G 
Septimus Piesse, New Bond Street, for pur¬ 
chase of medicines for the sick and wounded 
French only. 50 0 0 
W. H. Stickland, ,, „ „ 2 2 0 
Collections per Mr. I. H. Evans, Lymm :— 
£. s. 
Edwin Brown . 0 5 
R. Dutton. 0 2 
J. Edwards . 0 1 
I. H. Evans . 0 4 
Thomas Hind . 0 1 
Charles Leech . 0 2 
Peter Mairs . 0 2 
Thomas Pearson . 0 2 
William Pearson . 0 2 
Miss Sharp. 0 2 
James Warburton. 0 2 
P. Warburton . 0 1 
George Watson. 0 5 
d. 
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6 
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6 
6 
6 
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- £1 14 
7 
The above £1. 14s. 7 d. was spent in the purchase of 
calico, etc., which was made into the following by Mr. 
and Mrs. Evans :— 
28 cholera belts, stout flannel. 
14 bandages, cotton, 10 yds. x4in. 
41 
20 
24 
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I. H. Evans, Lymm:— 
6 2 oz. hot. tinct. opii. 
6 2 oz. „ spt. ammon. co. 
2 8 oz. „ liq. ammon. fort. 
1 8 oz. ,, chloroform. 
6 gross pil. opii gr. i in bots. 4 doz. each. 
3 „ „ quiniae gr. ij _ „ 
3 ,, ,, morphim gr. £ in bots. 6 doz. each. 
2 tins extract of meat biscuits. 
J. Middleton, Middleborongh-on-Tees:— 
20 lb. of lint. 
The Lancet announces the failure of an experi¬ 
ment made to test the method proposed by Professor 
Gamgee for the preservation of meat. Two cases, 
a cask and an iron cylinder, to all appearance se¬ 
curely packed and thoroughly air-proof, were opened 
at the Melbourne Custom House in the presence of 
members of the Intercolonial Conference and others 
interested in meat-preservation. On the iron cylin¬ 
der being opened, gas burst out with a liiss and 
immediately affected the organ of smell most power¬ 
fully. The meat in the cases also was in a putrid 
state. The whole consignment, weighing 527 lbs., 
was disposed of to the tallow-melters at 1(7. per lb. 
The Food of the Armies. —The Germans appear 
to be a more hardy race than their opponents. They can 
eat black bread, the issue of which had to he prohibited 
among the French prisoners on account of their inability 
to digest it. En passant , we may state that the Germans 
have practically managed to solve for themselves the 
difficult problem of an economical and compressed ration 
for field purposes. Their soldiers, we read, on several 
occasions during forced marches consumed a diet com¬ 
posed of mixed peas and meat—a highly nitrogenous but 
not very digestible .compound. The Rhine wines were 
always consumed where they could be procured, and we 
do not hear of a rum or spirit ration being issued, as in 
our army. The craving for tobacco exhibited by the 
troops, and their almost universal use of it, corroborate 
the opinion entertained by practical men that the con¬ 
sumption of tobacco is of real value to men undergoing 
the hardships of physical exertion incidental to a cam¬ 
paign.— Lgjicti. 
