'October 14,1871.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1S71. 
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THE CHIPPENHAM CASE. 
The question, as to the propriety of using a strong 
•solution of corrosive sublimate for the cure of ring¬ 
worm, would be so much more appropriately discussed 
in the columns of a medical journal, that we rejoice 
do find Dr. Fox’s letter of this week is to be a final 
one; and, for the sake of Dr. Meeres, we hope the 
matter will now be allowed to drop. In talcing leave 
of it, we note with pleasure the unanimity with which 
our medical correspondents recognize the service 
mot unfrequently rendered by pharmaceutists both 
to the writers of prescriptions and to the patients 
for whom they are intended. Most of our readers 
who have had any large experience in dispensing 
■will be able to call to mind instances, such as those 
mentioned by “ Thirty Years M. P. S.,” where that 
service has been most signally beneficial. But we 
.agree with Dr. Fox in thinking this somewhat irre¬ 
levant to those points in the Chippenham case which 
were commented upon by “ M. P. S.,” and we are 
equally of opinion that Dr. Fox’s indignation was 
irrelevant to the remark of “ M. P. S.,” which seems 
to have been so obnoxious ; for even if that remark 
were unfounded, what would be more natural in the 
case of one who did not “ set himself up as a judge 
of therapeutics as against properly qualified phy¬ 
sicians ” ? 
As we understand it, the real purport of the letter 
signed “ M. P. S.” was to urge the necessity of pro¬ 
moting a kindly feeling between medical men and 
pharmacists, inasmuch as both have duties to per¬ 
form involving serious responsibilities and the pos¬ 
sibility of mischances capable of being disastrous to 
themselves and to others. As already stated, we 
do not by any means adopt the views of our cor¬ 
respondent “ M. P. S.,” and in justice to him it 
must be remarked that he wrote under the influence 
of the verdict found by the jury in the Chippenham 
case; but we thoroughly agree with his conclusion, 
•and are convinced that whatever grounds there may 
be for dissatisfaction between medical men and phar¬ 
macists, they are more likely to be removed by the 
exercise of mutual consideration than by indulging 
in contemptuous cynicism. 
While speaking of this matter we cannot refrain 
from noticing Dr. Fox’s complaint that our corre¬ 
spondents miscall his bichloride preparation “ a 
lotionand it seems to us this is an apt illustration 
of that perversity which does so much to frustrate 
protective regulations against accidental poisoning. 
Just in the same way that Dr. Fox’s “parasiticide” 
is called a lotion, do people sometimes swallow an 
embrocation in place of a cough mixture, and ignore 
the “poison bottle” as much as it would seem is 
the case with Dr. Fox’s preventive classification. 
We prefer leaving to the consideration of medical 
critics the efficacy of skin tanning as a preventive 
against absorption. 
“COR ASS A COMPOUND.” 
A gentleman to whose name the initials M.D., 
LL.D., etc., are appended appears to have recently 
provided, for the benefit of the American public, a 
preparation winch he calls the “ Corassa Com¬ 
pound.” An inquiring correspondent of the Chicago 
Pharmacist , having met with a sample in the course 
of his business, took the trouble to examine it, and 
reports the result to that Journal. Upon placing 
the specimen—which appeared to be of a light fawn 
colour, resembling Dover’s Powder—under the mi¬ 
croscope, it was found to consist of three powders of 
different colours and degrees of division. These 
were separated by sieves of the requisite fineness, 
and proved to be gentian, sugar, and cochineal in 
about the following proportions:— 
Powdered Sugar ... 24 
,, Gentian . . 8 
„ Cochineal . . 1 
There is just a so up con of surprise perceptible in 
this gentleman’s information, that the preparation is 
sold at three dollars (about twelve shillings) an 
ounce; but he has evidently lost sight of the string 
of consonants following the maker’s name. Some of 
our correspondents have been occasionally so un¬ 
sentimental as to express doubts whether in the 
acquisition of honorific titles the game is worth the 
candle. We hope they will be comforted and en¬ 
couraged by this fresh evidence of the intrinsic value 
of such distinctions. 
The botanical library of the late Professor Bind¬ 
ley, which was purchased out of the surplus funds 
of the International Horticultural Exhibition of 180G 
and deposited in the rooms of the Pioyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society at South Kensington, has been ar¬ 
ranged and catalogued. Considerable additions have 
been made to the library by gift, and it is intended 
to serve as a nucleus of a consulting library for the 
use of gardeners and others. The trustees have just 
issued a circular stating that the library is now open 
for the use of the public under certain regulations. 
