October 8,1870.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
287 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1870. 
METROPOLITAN LABORATORIES. 
The Pharmaceutical Society no longer stands al¬ 
most alone in having, as a iiart of its educational 
department, a chemical laboratory for students 
which would bear comparison with the laboratories 
of the Continent. Other institutions have long 
since seen the value of this means of study, and, 
recognizing the special necessity for practical work 
in the study of chemistry, they have applied their re¬ 
sources in the establishment of suitable laboratories. 
In the matter of chemical laboratories, however, 
we are yet shockingly behind Germany. Still we 
are improving. At St. Bartholomew’s there is the 
fine new laboratory, presided over by Dr. Matthies- 
rSEN. The Charing Cross Hospital has also recently 
enlarged its laboratory. But the laboratory of the 
Pharmaceutical Society will still bear advantageous 
comparison with those of other metropolitan institu¬ 
tions, and the attendance of students at it seems to 
show that its beneficial assistance is well appreciated. 
Since last Session considerable changes have 
taken place in the chemical lectures at the medical 
schools. At Guy’s Hospital, in the room of Dr. 
Taylor, there is Dr. Debus. King’s College, as our 
readers will perceive, has just lost Dr. Miller. 
St. Thomas’s, on the other hand, which was to 
have removed to its new quarters, opposite the 
Houses of Parliament, is still in its temporary 
lodgings in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. 
Probably before long we may have provincial 
laboratories in no way inferior to those in London. 
In a recent article upon the Art of Prescribing, 
tlie Lancet expresses an opinion that, as understood 
by our fathers, it is certainly dying out if not already 
dead. Prescriptions are simplified, and single drugs 
are often given, but the teachers of the present day 
err in paying no attention to the instruction of their 
pupils in the art of writing such prescriptions as 
would be given to a private patient to be com¬ 
pounded by an ordinary druggist. Time may be 
saved in hospital practice by using formulae for mix¬ 
tures and pills, or referring to their number in the 
hospital Pharmacopoeia, but by so doing the student 
misses teaching to which he is fairly entitled. 
It also points out that although there is a general 
consent that the “directions” should be in the ver¬ 
nacular, but the drugs and their quantities in Latin, 
—teachers seldom dictate the drugs in Latin, much 
less the quantities; and asserts that if an ordinary 
abbreviated prescription were put into the hands of 
many advanced pupils, they could not put it into 
Latin without committing various solecisms. 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FUND FOR THE 
SICK AND WOUNDED. 
The following contributions have been received 
since the publication of our last:— 
C. s . d* 
J. B. Bailey, Reading . 1 0 0 
John Mitchell, 254, Upper Street, N. 110 
J. Smart, Scarborough. 1 0 0 
Collections per Michael Rogerson, 
Local Secretary at Bradford, 
Yorks:— 
£. s. d . 
M. Rogerson and Son. 5 0 0 
Joseph Hick. 2 2 0 
Harrison and Parkinson. 5 0 0 
John Boast. 10 0 
William Cockshott .. 1 0 0 
John Walker. 0 5 0 
William Newsholme . 0 10 0 
John Tankard . 0 5 0 
James Foster. 0 5 0 
James Roper. 0 4 0 
Joseph Cookson . 0 2 6 
Samuel Parker. 0 2 6 
Samuel Beanland. 0 5 0 
J. Rhodes . 0 5 0 
John Priestley. 0 1 6 
T. Ackerman, Bristol. 
3 oz. bottles of sulphate of quinine. 
Edward Constance, 37, Leadenhall Street. 
1 doz. 2 oz. liq. opii sedat. 
,, 2 „ cinchon. cordifol. 
£16 7 6 
110 
J. Bell and Co., Hastings. 
2 lb. methylated chloroform. 
4 oz. chloral. 
4 lb. lint. 
Charles Jones, Hanley. 
6 gross 1 gr. opium pills, in bottles of 4 doz. each. 
6 „ 2 „ quinine pills ,, „ 
6 „ 1 „ morphia pills „ „ 
3 lb. lint. 
R. H. Davis, Harrogate. 
400 pil. opii, gr. i, in bottles of 50 each. 
400 pil. morphiae acet., gr. ditto. 
1 oz. muriate cinchonine. 
4 ,, pot ext. carnis. 
1 lb. chocolate powder. 
1 „ arrowroot. 
2 woven vests. 
4 bandages. 
S. A. Key worth, Hastings. 
2 vr-lb. bottles pure carbolic acid. 
2 lb. lint. 
The following letter has been received in reference to 
this Fund:— 
Dear Sir,—Will you kindly allow an explanation in refe¬ 
rence to the Chemists and Druggists’ Fund for the Sick and 
Wounded ? 
It ought to be known that our esteemed friend Mr. Aider- 
man Gould, J.P., of Kingston, among many other places 
visited Richmond, and by his disinterested exertions suc¬ 
ceeded in arranging two public meetings, at which he de¬ 
livered interesting and stirring addresses; a committee was 
formed, and the chemists on being called upon liberally re¬ 
sponded, by supplying considerable quantities of the most 
useful medicines, etc. 
In addition to this effort public collections were made at 
the various churches and chapels of the town; these tacts 
will, I hope, be accepted as a sufficient reason why our names 
did not appear in your subscription list. 
I remain, dear Sir, faithfully yours, 
R. Goodwin Mumbray. 
14a, Hill Rise, Richmond, SJf r 
