July 1,1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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Hydrocyanic Acid. 
Belladonna Extract and 
Tincture. 
Cantliarides, Towderand 
Extract. 
Chloroform. 
Hemlock, Extract and 
Tincture. 
Cyanide of Mercury. 
Cyanide of Potassium. 
Corrosive Sublimate. 
Foxglove, Extract and 
Tincture. 
Tartar Emetic. 
Henbane, Extract and 
Tincture. 
Tobacco. 
Nitrate of Mercury. 
Opium and Extract. 
Phosphorus. 
Ergot. 
Thornapple, Extract and 
Tincture. 
The Bill passed during the last session of the 
New York Legislature* is severely criticized by the 
American Journal of Pharmacy. That journal states 
that, as the power of appointing the examiners is 
vested in the mayor, probably it will not be long 
before the board consists of politicians rather than 
of men who have the welfare of pharmacy at 
heart. There is no provision made for apprentices 
to learn under the guidance and supervision of 
others how to make up prescriptions; on the other 
hand, the salaries to be paid to the members of the 
examining board are so high that, after the licensing 
of the pharmacists at present engaged in New York, 
it is estimated that, if the new applications amount 
to one hundred annually, the licensing of every so- j 
called drug clerk will cost the city one hundred and 
fifty dollars. The law is also condemned as ignoring 
the existence of pharmaceutical educational institu¬ 
tions, and as not being likely to give greater security 
to the public. It is suggested that if one-third of the 
money were expended on the New York College of. 
Pharmacy, the facilities for pharmaceutical education 
would be increased; or if, in lieu of such a grant, 
the examination and licensing of applicants were j 
entrusted to the College, the duty would be better 
and more satisfactorily performed. 
The State Medical Association of Mississippi, at 
their annual meeting held in April last, adopted a 
resolution inviting the “ druggists, pharmaceutists 
and chemists ” of the state of Mississippi to organize 
a State Pharmaceutical Association, to meet annually 
at the same time and place that the Medical Asso¬ 
ciation does, and co-operate with it in all measures 
of mutual interest and importance. 
The Practical and Analytical Laboratory con¬ 
nected with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 
lias been again placed by the Board of Trustees 
under the charge of Professor J. M. Maisch. With 
a view of bringing this important feature of pharma¬ 
ceutical education within the reach of all students, 
the fee for the coming winter session has been 
considerably reduced. 
transactions of % ptranuitrratmil Storittg. 
ADJOURNED SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING. 
June 2ith, 1871. 
MR. A. F. IIASELDEX, FRESIDEXT, IX THE CHAIR. 
Present—Messrs. Bottle, Betty, Brown, Greenish, Hills,. 
Reynolds, Sandford and Williams. Mr. Flux, the So¬ 
ciety’s Solicitor, was in attendance. 
The “Special Committee” appointed to direct the 
operations of the Society in communicating with the 
Local Secretaries and members upon the subject of op¬ 
posing- the Bill submitted their Report, and the circulars, 
and forms of petitions which had been sent out under 
their instructions. 
The following Memorial to the Right Hon. W. E. 
Forster, prepared by this Committee, was ordered to bo 
sent:— 
“ To the Tight Honourable W. E. Forster, M.P., 
Vice-President of the Council. 
“24 th June , 1871. 
“ Sir,—The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society beg- 
most respectfully to submit to you some of the reasons 
which, they trust, will appear sufficient to induce you to 
withdraw the Pharmacy Bill, at least during the present 
Session of Parliament. 
“ 1. The almost unanimous protest of the body of 
about ten thousand chemists affected by the Bill, whose 
claim to a hearing is certainly great, since the State owes 
to their voluntary exertions the gradual evolution of an 
organized system of pharmacy in Great Britain. 
“ 2. The unfairness of the Bill towards the whole body 
of chemists, in subjecting them to penalties for such 
merely technical breaches of the regulations for storing' 
poisons as would be constantly inevitable, whilst the 
still larger body of medical practitioners has a special 
exemption from the Act secured to it. We would sub¬ 
mit that the danger connected with powerful medicines 
is either, firstly, inherent to the poison, or, secondly, it 
belongs to the person dealing with it. If the first pre¬ 
sumption be accepted, the State should demand from all 
citizens the same compliance with regulations: to the 
second supposition we must emphatically object that 
there are no grounds for fixing this stigma either upon 
the Society we represent, or upon the general body of 
chemists and druggists. The unequal action of this 
Bill is strikingly shown in the case of Glasgow, where 
there are about sixty chemists and one hundred and. 
twenty open surgeries kept by medical practitioners, 
and undistinguishable from the shops of the chemists in 
their appearance and in the business carried on. The 
deputation from Glasgow which waited upon the Council 
of the Pharmaceutical Society has most forcibly shown 
that the Bill would drive from the shops of the chemists 
to those of the surgeons all that numerous class of poorer 
customers requiring remedies that this Bill says may 
only be supplied by the chemist in a ‘ poison bottle/ 
A customer is in the habit of frequenting that shop in 
which all his wants are supplied. The hardship pointed 
out as affecting Glasgow would also affect, in a greater 
or less degree, London and many other places. 
“ 3. The Act of 1868 contains a penal clause (Section 
26) which gives to the Privy Council the power of re¬ 
moving from the register, and consequently ruining, any 
chemist who ‘is convicted of any offence against this 
Act.’ The adoption of the regulations would render- 
liable to this penalty every chemist in the daily exer¬ 
cise of his calling. We are certain that it was not the 
intention of Parliament in 1868 that such penalties' 
should be extended so as to cover hundreds of the cir¬ 
cumstances which daily surround the chemist. 
“ 4. The essential condition of such regulations a s 
* See ante, p. 687. 
