792 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[April 1, 1871. 
possess satisfactory credentials of tlieir attainments 
from a regularly incorporated college or school of 
pharmacy; (2) “ practising pharmacists,” who at or 
prior to the passing of the Act have kept or continue 
to keep open stores for the dispensing of prescriptions 
and the sale of drugs and medicines; (3) “prac¬ 
tising assistants in pharmacy,” of not less than 
eighteen years of age, who at or prior to the passing 
•of the Act shall have been employed in the com¬ 
pounding of prescriptions of medical practitioners, 
and who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of their 
attainments and competency to the Board of Phar¬ 
macy. Afterwards none are to be deemed qualified 
for registration under the Act but “ graduates in 
pharmacy” and persons who have had four years’ 
•experience in a store where prescriptions were com¬ 
pounded, and shall pass an examination before the 
Board of Pharmacy. 
The Board of Pharmacy is to consist of three 
pharmacists, chosen by the Governor of the State 
from twelve gentlemen to be nominated by the incor¬ 
porated colleges of pharmacy in Illinois. This Board 
is to appoint two examiners in each town when ne¬ 
cessary, for the purpose of examining candidates for 
registration as assistant pharmacists. Certain fees 
are to be paid, and any balance remaining after the 
expenses of carrying out the Act is to be paid in 
•equal amounts to the library fund of the colleges of 
pharmacy in the State. 
A registrar is to be appointed, who is to prepare 
annually a list of persons entitled to be registered, a 
copy of which he is to send free to every registered 
pharmacist in the State. A registered pharmacist, 
upon changing his place of business, is to forward a 
notice of the same, together with a fee of one dollar, 
to the Board, that the necessary alteration may be 
made. Once a year every pharmacist is to notify 
whether he still practises pharmacy at his registered 
place of business, and to send a fee of one dollar, 
that his name may be inserted in the register for the 
ensuing year. The names of persons who do not 
•comply with this regulation, are, after one letter of 
inquiry from the Registrar, to be omitted from the 
register. 
There are three schedules of poisons attached to 
the Act, which are as follows :— 
Schedule A. —Aconite and its preparations; arsenic and 
its preparations ; corrosive sublimate ; cyanide of potas¬ 
sium ; hydrocyanic acid; nux vomica and its prepara¬ 
tions ; opium and its preparations,—excepting pareg'oric 
and all preparations containing two grains or less of 
opium in one ounce ; strychnia and all poisonous vege¬ 
table alkaloids and their salts ; essential oil of bitter al¬ 
monds, of pennyroyal, of savine, of tansy, and of rue. 
Schedule B. Oxalic acid; sugar of lead ; sulphate of 
zinc ; white precipitate; red precipitate; tartar emetic. 
Schedule C. —Belladonna and its preparations ; cantha- 
rides and the tincture; chloroform; cotton root and its 
preparations ; croton oil; digitalis and its preparations ; 
ergot and its prepai’ations ; henbane and its prepara¬ 
tions ; chloral (hydrate); poison hemlock or conium; all 
mineral acids. 
A penalty of fifty dollars is to he inflicted upon 
unregistered persons keeping open shop for retailing 
or dispensing medicines or poisons, but provision is 
made that in rural districts retail dealers may be 
licensed by the Board to sell the usual medicines 
and the poisons included in Schedules B and C. 
Neither of the poisons in the three schedules is to be 
sold to any person who appears unduly excited or 
intoxicated; or to a child of less than twelve years 
of age, or until inquiry has been made of the pur¬ 
pose for which it is required. Poisons in Schedules 
A and B are to be labelled with the name of the ar¬ 
ticle, the word “poison,” and the name and address 
of the seller. Besides this, an entry is to be made 
in a book of the sale of poisons in Schedule A, stat¬ 
ing the date, name and address of purchaser, name 
and quantity of article and the purpose for which it is 
stated to be required. 
The dispensing of physicians’ prescriptions is ex¬ 
empted from the provisions relating to the sale of 
poison. It is, however, provided that all prescrip¬ 
tions shall be numbered and filed, and preserved for 
at least five years; but a copy is to be furnished if 
demanded by the writer or the purchaser, for which 
no fee is to be charged. 
Another Bill has been framed in Illinois, in refer¬ 
ence to the vending of proprietary medicines, re¬ 
quiring that a statement of the ingredients of all such 
preparations should be filed in the office of the clerk 
of each county in which they are sold. The Phar¬ 
macist , referring to this Bill, expresses an opinion 
that it would not be enforced if passed, and that it 
would be better to require the formula to be plainly 
printed upon each bottle or package offered for sale, 
and to provide a severe punishment for those who 
do not prepare their nostrums in strict accordance 
with the printed formula. 
In a letter to the Lancet, Mr. M. C. Furnell, 
F.R.C.S., Professor of Physiology at the Madras 
Medical College, and formerly a student in the 
Laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society, has made 
another contribution to the history of anaesthetics. 
He says that in 1847, he, being then a pupil at 
St. Bartholomew’s, was trying the effects of sul¬ 
phuric ether, when he was led by accident to try 
chloric ether, and found its effect in producing in¬ 
sensibility to be the same, wliile it was free from the 
disagreeable taste of sulphuric ether. At Mr. Jacob 
Bell’s recommendation he brought it under the 
notice of Mr. Holmes Coote, who was then Mr. 
Lawrence’s assistant; and upon Mr. Furnell’s as¬ 
surance that he had tried it on himself, and that it 
was perfectly safe, it was administered to a patient 
who was to be operated on that very day. Its suc¬ 
cess was so decided that Mr. Lawrence subse¬ 
quently administered it to a lady who could not 
take sulphuric ether. 
