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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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Augustus De Morgan was bom at Madura, in Southern 
India, in June, 1806, and was the son of a colonel in the 
Madras army. On the maternal side he traced his 
descent from the mathematician, James Dodson, F.R.S., 
many years master in the mathematical school of Christ’s 
Hospital and author of the ‘ Antilogarithmic Canon,’ a 
circumstance to which he regarded himself as indebted for 
his particular bent of mind. Sent early to England, in 
1823 he went to Cambridge, where he became fourth 
wrangler in 1827, before he was twenty-one years of 
age. Conscientious scruples preventing him from sub¬ 
scribing to the necessary tests, he was debarred from the 
college fellowship to which his high position would have 
otherwise entitled him. He afterwards entered Lincoln’s 
Inn and commenced the study of law, but he soon left 
this and devoted himself to his favourite study. In 
1828, he became Professor of Mathematics at the London 
University—now University College,—which office he 
held, with the exception of the five years from 1831 to 
1836, until 1866; when, not approving of the course 
adopted by the Council in an appointment to one of the 
professional chairs, he resigned and left the College, of 
which he had been for nearly forty years one of the most 
distinguished ornaments. 
Professor De Morgan was the author of several "well- 
known treatises on the various branches of mathematics 
and logic, and a contributor to the Fenny Cyclopaedia , 
Knight’s British Worthies, the Philosophical Magazine , 
the North British Review , the Transactions of the Cam¬ 
bridge Philosophical Society , the Athenaeum, etc. He was 
also resorted to for advice by many of the principal life 
assurance companies. 
Professor De Morgan had been ill for a considerable 
time previous to his death. An attack of paralysis was 
followed by a disease of the kidneys, and he died on 
Saturday the 18th of March, at sixty-five years of age. 
M. Emile IIepp, the well-known pharmaceutical che¬ 
mist, of Strasbourg, while labouring to extinguish the 
fire caused by the German artillery in the civil hospital, 
on the night of the 25th of August, received an injury 
which has caused his death, after more than five months’ 
suffering, at the age of fifty-two. The savants of Stras¬ 
bourg assembled around his grave, and several short ad¬ 
dresses were pronounced over his remains. M. Hirtz 
has paid a further tribute to his late colleague by the 
publication of a careful biography, setting forth Emile 
Hepp’s scientific claims.— Athenaeum. 
The death is announced of Mr. Samuel D. Hendel, a 
prominent American pharmacist, and member of the firm 
of Leiteh and Hendel, of St. Louis, Missouri. He died 
suddenly from apoplexy on the 23rd of January, at the 
age of forty. 
Another eminent pharmacist, of the same city, Mr. 
Eugene L. Massot, died on the 14th of February. 
At a special meeting of the St. Louis College of Phar¬ 
macy, the following resolutions w r ere passed:— 
‘‘Whereas, the death of Mr. E. L. Massot having been 
annoimced to this college, w r e feel it our privilege and 
duty to give some expression to our deep sense of his 
loss and our affectionate respect for his memory. There¬ 
fore, be it 
_ “ Resolved—That we bear most willing testimony to 
his faithfulness and devotion in promoting the interests 
of this college, he being one of its most thorough friends, 
who, at all times, spared no trouble and thought no 
labour too great to advance its interests. The records 
of this institution recite the confidence placed in him by 
its members. Filling successively the offices of Presi¬ 
dent and Vice-President, he gave to each position that 
careful attention so necessary for the successful workings 
of such an institution as ours is. His blameless and 
consistent life, his amiable and genial disposition, and 
his^ eminently attractive social qualities, rendered his 
society sought for not only by members of his profes¬ 
sion, but by all who came within the sphere of his ac¬ 
quaintance. 
_ “ Resolved—That we "will attend the funeral and cor¬ 
dially unite in every token of respect to his memory. 
“ Resolved—That a copy of these resolutions be pre¬ 
sented to the family of the deceased, and that the phar¬ 
maceutical journals of the country and the city press be 
requested to publish the same.” 
( The Chemical News announces the death of Dr. 
Charles M. Wetherill, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 
I he deceased gentleman had been a pupil of Liebig, 
and was esteemed by his American fellow-workers as 
one oi the most active chemists America possessed. 
The New t Theory and Practice oe Medicine: a 
Treatise on the Nature, Cause, Cure and Prevention 
of Disease, with practical illustrations of the medicinal 
and other uses of Hibbert’s Patent Antiseptic Solu¬ 
tions. Published by the Author, W. Hibbert, Cheet- 
ham, Manchester. 1870. 
At a time when the most accomplished and philoso¬ 
phically-minded physicians are admitting that medicine, 
as a science, is little more than on the threshold, Mr. 
W. Hibbert announces his discovery of the true nature 
and cause of disease in general, and, what is more to the 
point, the sovereign remedy for its symptoms in par¬ 
ticular. 
In a preface, the style of which makes us more than 
dubious whether Mr. Hibbert has received an ordinarily 
good education, he unfolds what may be regarded as his 
ideas of “pathology”—ideas, we may confidently assert, 
considerably in advance of any entertained by the Royal 
Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons. Dexterously hook¬ 
ing on Professor Lister, of Edinburgh, to his little medical 
go-cart, he comes to a halt before the British public, and 
assures them, in genuine showman’s language, that the 
remedy for all their ailments is stowed away in his 
vehicle, and that they have only to “w r alk upstairs,” 
and on payment of a small gratuity, obtain the desired 
relief. Like all others of his class, he is very strong in 
the kind of phraseology which at once alarms and mysti¬ 
fies the vulgar—“debility,” “organic imperfection,” 
“misdirected nervous irritability” (whatever that may 
mean), “disposition to morbid activity,” and so forth— 
phrases which may signify anything or nothing, but 
which the empiric is well aware will be interpreted by 
his appropriate audience on the principle of “omne ig- 
notuin pro horrifico.” It is quite unnecessary to examine 
Mr. Hibbert’s positions in detail. His ipse dixit is quite 
sufficient for us. But before proceeding to burn our 
Pharmacopoeia, throw physic to the dogs, and sign a 
petition for the ostracism of “duly-qualified” pretenders, 
we should like him to explain how his antiseptic solution 
is good at once for diarrhoea and constipation. When 
he has satisfied us on this point, we shall refrain from 
inquiring whether or not it is an accidental coincidence 
that he hails from Cheet-ham ? 
The following journals have been received:—The ‘British 
Medical Journal,’ April 1; the‘Medical Times and Gazette,’ 
April 1; the ‘ Lancet,’ April 1; the ‘ Medical Press and 
Circular,’April 5; ‘Natui’e,’ March30; the ‘Chemical News,’ 
March 31; ‘Journal of the Society of Arts,’ March 30; ‘Gar¬ 
deners’ Chronicle,’ April 1; the ‘ Grocer,’ April 1; ‘ Produce 
Markets Review,’ April 1; the ‘English Mechanic,’ March 
31; the ‘Journal of Applied Science’ for April; the ‘Florist 
and Pomologist ’ for April. 
