March 25, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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aconite and compounds thereof, tartrate of antimony, 
arsenic and compounds thereof, corrosive sublimate, 
digitaline, ergot, Indian hemp, morphia and its salts 
and solutions, strychnine and nux vomica, savin and 
preparations, veratria, and oil of cedar. The second 
class includes those articles which can be sold with¬ 
out restriction by registered druggists, but cannot be 
sold by any other. They are oxalic acid, belladonna 
and compounds thereof, Calabar beans, cantliarides, 
chloroform and ether, conium and preparations 
thereof, croton oil and seeds, cyanide of potassium, 
eupliorbium, elaterium, Goulard’s extract, hyoscy- 
amus and preparations, hellebore, iodine, opium and 
its preparations (not including paregoric), podophyl- 
lin, iodide and bromide of potassium, St. Ignatius’s 
bean, santonine, scammony, stramonium and pre¬ 
parations, valerian, verdigris, sulphate of zinc, ace¬ 
tate of lead, and pink root. The Council of the 
Ontario College of Pharmacy is empowered to add 
to the number of the above poisons, and from time to 
time to declare, by resolution, that any other article 
ought to be deemed a poison within the meaning of 
the Act. Such resolution, subject to the approval of 
the Lieutenant-Governor, to take effect one month 
after it shall have been advertised, together with the 
Lieutenant-Governor’s approval, in the Ontario 
Gazette. 
Compounds mentioned in the British Pharma¬ 
copoeia are to be dispensed according to the formula 
directed hi the latest edition of that work, unless the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons shall select 
another standard, or distinct instructions are given 
to the contrary. 
A clause allowing chemists and druggists to sell 
wines and spirits, and another exempting them from 
penalties for selling adulterated drugs were struck 
out while the Bill was hi committee. 
In various parts of the United States, there is 
considerable agitation just now in reference to the 
enactment of laws regulating the practice of phar¬ 
macy and the sale of poisons. 
We read in a New York contemporary, under the 
heading “ The Murdering Drug Clerks,” that a Bill 
has been introduced into the Legislature for the pur¬ 
pose of shielding the “ public from the ignorant drug 
“ clerks, who manage from time to time to kill some 
“ miserable patient of a neighbouring physician by 
“mistaking a poisonous drug for a gentle physic 
“ powder.” The Bill refers only to New York city, 
and directs the mayor and commonalty to appoint 
two skilled pharmaceutists, two practical drug¬ 
gists and two regular physicians as an examining 
board for the examination and licensing of all per¬ 
sons now or hereafter to be employed by any drug¬ 
gist or keeper of drug stores. It enacts that, thirty 
days after the organization of such board, it shall be 
illegal to employ any person as a clerk in a drug 
store who lias not passed an examination and re¬ 
ceived a certilicate of competency. It is also made 
illegal for any other than a prescription-clerk to 
make up prescriptions. The penalties proposed for 
the infringement of the provisions of this Bill are 
a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, or six 
months’ imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of 
the Court. This Bill, which we are told will un¬ 
doubtedly become law, does not appear to deal with 
the qualification of principals, but only of the per¬ 
sons employed by them. 
In New Jersey a Bill has been brought forward, 
which has met with strong opposition on the part of 
some physicians, from its requiring all to pass an 
examination who shall hereafter open apothecaries’ 
stores ; the physicians claiming that they should be 
exempt and at liberty to open as many stores as 
they please. 
Sfiitimdrotw at % f |srmaaatoai jtetrij. 
EXAMINATION IN LONDON. 
March 1 5th and 17 th, 1871. 
Present (15th)—Messrs. Allchin, Bird, Carteighe,. 
Cracknell, Davenport, Deane, Edwards, Gale, Garle,. 
Hanbury, Haselden, Ince and Southall. 
Dr. Greenhow was also present, on behalf of the 
Privy Council. 
(17th)—Messrs. All chin, Bird, Cracknell, Davenport, 
Deane, Edwards, Gale, Garle, Hanbury, Haselden and 
Ince. 
Five candidates presented themselves for the Major 
Examination and thirty-four for the Minor ; the follow¬ 
ing twenty-four passed, and were declared to be duly 
qualified to be registered:— 
MAJOR (as a Pharmaceutical Chemist). 
Scott, Walter .Elgin. 
MINOR (as Chemists and Druggists). 
*Howorth, George Buxton .Chertsey. 
*Hulme, Richard Gleave.Hammersmith. 
* Ground, William Davie.Grantham. 
*Clarke, George Ernest.Stowmarket. 
* Hetherington, Martin Luther ..Highbury. 
Holmes, Nathaniel Wheatcroft .. Grantham. 
Jaques, William .Beverley. 
Maddison, Henry Gildon .London. 
Hill, William .Louth. 
§ I Bothamley, Richard Broughton. .Guildford. 
& \ Wrighton, Charles Edward .... Birmingham. 
Woolley, Harold .Manchester. 
Miller, Nathaniel.Preston. 
Guy, Frederick..Louth. 
■a j Bird, Matthew Mitchell.Lynn. 
(g* ( Constance, Herbert Edward .... London. 
Earee, Edwin Thomas.Staines. 
White, William Henry .London. 
H ( Jasper, Frederick William.Penzance. 
\ Wilkins, George.Stratford-on-Avon. 
Farrow, Charles Henry .Diss. 
Churchman, James .London. 
Pound, Henry William .London. 
The above names are arranged in order of merit. 
FIRST, OR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 
Certificates presented by the undermentioned were 
accepted in lieu of this Examination :— 
Beall, Samuel Smart .. Cambridge. 
Evans, Thomas.Salford. 
Harrington, Arthur Lewis.Rocliford. 
Kingzett, Nathan Izod .Birmingham. 
* Passed with Honours. 
