October 14,1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
319 
JOHN SAVORY, ESQ. 
We regret to have to record the death on the 3rd in¬ 
stant of a gentleman who took an active part in the 
formation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain, and whose name stands third on the list of its 
presidents. 
Mr. John Savory, horn in 1800, was early apprenticed 
to his uncle as an apothecary. After a residence in Paris, 
where he studied pharmacy, and practised the then new art 
of cupping (which he had previously acquired under the 
celebrated Mr. Minors), he passed the examination of the 
Society of Apothecaries, but relinquishing any idea of 
practising, he became a partner in the firm of Savory 
end Moore. Mr. Savory was associated with Messrs. 
Wm. Allen, Jacob Bell, Morson, Payne, and other well- 
known pharmaceutists, in the foundation of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society. For many years he took a very active 
part in its affairs, holding the office of president from 
the years 1844 to 1848 inclusive. Upon the passing of 
the Pharmacy Act, in 1852, he was compelled, as a mem¬ 
ber of the Society of Apothecaries, to break off this long 
connection, but he always retained a lively interest in 
the Society’s welfare. He was a great advocate for the 
passing of the law making examination compulsory on 
all who engaged in the business of a chemist and drug¬ 
gist, believing it would tend to raise them to a higher 
social position. 
Mr. Savory was a business man of the old school. 
Always active and industrious himself, he insisted that 
all that was done by those in his employ should be done 
well. He was fond of relating his own youthful experi¬ 
ences of assistants’ life, and comparing them with the 
more luxurious manners and customs of modern days, not 
always to the advantage of those of the present day. 
He had for the last three or four years retired from 
any very active part in the business with which he had 
been so long and honourably connected. Until latterly 
he was a hale man, but within the last twelvemonth a 
disease of an insidious character crept on him, and he 
gradually sank and died at Frant, in Sussex, in the 72nd 
year of his age. 
In 1S42, Mr. Savory read a paper on the Preparation 
of Syrups and Oxymels at an evening meeting of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, and he also furnished communi¬ 
cations to this Journal on Extractum Cannabis Indicte, 
Kousso, etc. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Skim-Milk Treatment or Diabetes and Bright’s 
Disease, with Clinical Observations on the Symptoms 
and Pathology of these Affections. By Arthur Scott 
Donkin, M.D. London: Longmans. 1871. From the 
Publishers. 
Transactions op the Clinical Society op London. 
Vol. IV. London: Longmans. 1871. From the Society. 
The following journals have been received:—The ‘British 
Medical Journal,’ Oct. 7; the ‘Medical Times and Gazette,’ 
Oct. 7; the ‘ Lancet,’ Oct. 7 ; the ‘ Medieal Press and Cir¬ 
cular,’ Oct. 11 ; ‘Nature,’ Oct. 5; the ‘Chemical News,’ 
Oct. 7; ‘ English Mechanic,’ Oct. 6 ; ‘ Gardeners’ Chro¬ 
nicle,’ Oct. 7; the ‘Grocer,’ Oct. 7; the ‘Journal of the 
Society of Arts,’ Oct. 7; the ‘Brewers’ Guardian,’ Oct. 1; 
the ‘ Practitioner ’ for October; ‘ Mid-weekly Hampshire 
Independent,’ Oct. 11. 
Communications, Letters, etc., have been received from 
Mr. J. H. AVilson, Mr. Bienvenu, Mr. D. B. Hanbury, Air. J. 
Robbins, Air. Griffith, Mr. H. Deane, J. C. K., AV. B., T. B., 
“ Sigma.” 
Cor«spto«. 
*** Vo notice can be taken of anonymous communica¬ 
tions. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenti¬ 
cated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily 
for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith. 
TnE CnipPENHAM Case. 
Sir,—After the “ withering ” remarks of Dr. Fox upon 
my letter, published in your Journal a fortnight since, in 
reference to the above case, allow me, injustice to myself, 
to say how gratified I feel at so eminent an authority as 
Dr. Squire boldly and ably coming forward to endorse my 
views as to the “terrible” strength of the “solution,” about 
which much correspondence has taken place. In my 
opinion, Dr. Squire deserves the thanks of our profession 
for the candid acknowledgment he makes of the necessity 
for our supervision of all prescriptions entrusted to us. This 
at once negatives Dr. Fox’s “usurping” theory, upon which 
many “ eminent ” in the medical profession have a habit of 
venting their indignation unjustly. 
October 9th, 1871. Al. P. S. 
Sir,—One final word on the subject of bichloride of mercury 
in ringworm. Your correspondent “ Thirty Years M. _P. S’* 
must forgive me for saying that his remarks are wholly irre¬ 
levant. He introduces an entirely new matter when he dis¬ 
cusses the propriety of a pharmaceutist taking steps to rectify 
mistakes in prescriptions, and talks about internal remedies. 
I can only say that I shall be very much obliged to any phar¬ 
maceutist who may save me from the consequences of an 
oversight or inadvertence in any of my written prescriptions. 
I entirely repudiate holding the doctrine that a chemist is 
“ to dispense but not opine.” The real point involved, 
however, in the Chippenham case is the use of a local remedy 
which is never written in prescriptions, but is used only by 
the medical man himself. I never wrote a prescription, as 
far as I know, for the remedy; never certainly gave it to a 
patient, and no patient of mine ever took it to a chemist to be 
compounded. The remedy is used by the practitioner him¬ 
self, and he alone; and therefore I naturally felt indignant at 
“ II. P.8.” in his telling me that no chemist’s assistant of 
six months’ standing would dream of using a remedy so “out¬ 
rageously strong,” and so on, which was as much as saying 
that Dr. Aleeres was either criminally reckless or utterly 
ignorant. But why, Sir, do your correspondents call the 
bichloride remedy in question a lotion ? I have classed it in my 
work with “ vesicating parasiticides,” in a separate group, 
distinct from “ milder parasiticides for ordinary use,” with 
the very purpose of preventing it being considered “ a lotion ” 
or a simple application. 
Again, your correspondents seem to be entirely unaware 
of the fact, that the very object of using so strong a solution 
of bichloride is to prevent absorption by inducing rapid and 
free coagulation of the albuminous fluids of the skin, by 
quickly tanning the skin in fact. Tilbury Fox. 
Provincial Education. 
Sir,—Alay I ask you to give publicity to the following 
announcement, extracted from the official statement of “Re¬ 
sults of the Examinations of Science Schools and Classes, 
Alay, 1871 ” ?— 
“List of Queen’s AIedallists. 
Subject—Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology. 
Name. 
qJ 
CUD 
Occupa¬ 
tion. 
School. 
Teacher. 
Medal. 
Arthur N. 
Little . 
1G 
Chemist 
Bristol , 
Leipner, A. 
Gold 
Medal. 
Charles H. 
Cuming. 
22 
Chemist 
Plymouth 
Balkwill, F. P. 
Silver 
Medal. 
Subject- 
—Systematic and Economic Botany. 
Arthur 
Northcroft 
18 
Chemist 
Plymouth 
Balkwill, F. P. 
Silver 
Medal. 
Subject —Animal Physiology. 
William 
Davis . . 
17 
Chemist 
Torquay. 
Viccars, T. . . 
Silver 
Medal." 
