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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 21,1S71. 
Dudley . 
1 
Durham. 
1 
Evesham. 
1 
Exeter. 
2 
Falmouth . 
1 
Goole . 
1 
Grantham . 
1 
Guernsey . 
2 
Hartlepool. 
1 
Haverfordwest .... 
I 
Hertford. 
2 
Hitchin . 
1 
Huddersfield. 
2 
Hull. 
4 
Huntingdon . 
1 
Ipswich . 
2 
Ironbridge. 
1 
Knaresborough .... 
1 
Lanark . 
1 
Launceston. 
2 
Leeds . 
1 
Leicester. 
3 
Liskeard. 
1 
Liverpool . 
4 
London . 
30 
Macclesfield . 
3 
Manchester. 
9 
Merthyr Tydfil .... 
1 
Middlesborough.... 
1 
Neath. 
1 
Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
. 1 
Newport (Mon.) .. 
1 
Norwich... .. 
2 
Northampton. 
1 
Nottingham . 
4 
Oxford.. 
1 
Peterborough. 4 
Plymouth . 2 
Poole . 2 
Preston . 1 
Ramsgate . 1 
Reading. 1 
Ripon. 2 
Rochdale. 3 
Rochester . 2 
Rugby. 1 
St. Alban’s. 1 
St. Austell .. 1 
Sheffield. 2 
Southampton. 2 
South Shields. 1 
Spalding. 1 
Stamford. 6 
Stockport . 2 
Stoke-on-Trent .... 1 
Sunderland. 2 
Swansea. 5 
Taunton. 4 
Tenterden . 1 
Tiverton. 1 
Truro . 1 
Walsall . 1 
Wakefield . 2 
Warwick..,. 1 
Welshpool. 2 
Westbury .. 1 
Weston-super-mare 1 
Whitby . 2 
W olverhampton .. 2 
Yarmouth . 2 
York . 5 
The questions for examination were as follows :— 
Time allowed : Three Hours. 
LATIN. 
Translate into English two or more of the following 
sentences:— 
1. Quum ea ita sint, tamen, si obsides ab iis sibi 
dentur, uti ea, quie polliceantur, facturos intelligat, et si 
JEduis de injuriis, quas ipsis sociisque eorum intulerint, 
item si Allobrogibus satisfaciant, sese cum iis pacem esse 
facturum. 
2. Biduo post, Ariovistus ad Ccesarem legatos mittit, 
velle se de his rebus, quie inter eos agi coeptm, neque 
perfectie essent, agere cum eo : uti aut iterum colloquio 
diem constitueret; aut si id minus vellet, ex suis legatis 
aliquem ad se mitteret. 
3. Coque Coccum in Aqua per quartam horae partem 
in vase operto, subinde movens, turn cola, et perfice 
sicut de Syrupo Altha?a3 preeceptum est. 
4. Ex his fiat haustus, summo mane deglutiendus. 
Repetatur idem tertio quoque die. 
5. Give the genitive endings, singular number, of the 
five declensions. 
6. How are noun-adjectives of three articles declined ? 
Decline one. 
7. State to which conjugation each of the following 
verbs belongs :— mitto , repeto, moveo, constituo. 
8. What case do the following prepositions take after 
them ?— absque, cum, pro, sine. Illustrate by examples. 
9. What cases do gerunds and supines govern ? Fur¬ 
nish examples. 
ARITHMETIC. 
10. A. was born 34 years after B. ; how old was B. 
when A. was 17 P and how old will A. be when B. is 70 F 
11. The planet Mercury revolves round the sun in- 88 
days; how many revolutions will it perform in 17 years 
and 219 days, reckoning 365 days to the year ? 
12. Reduce £ of a cwt. to its proper quantity. 
13. From 5^ take 
14. Add 3275- + 27'514 + P005 + 725* + 7 32. 
ENGLISH. 
15. Of what does syntax treat ? 
16. Explain the difference between simple and com¬ 
pound sentences, and furnish examples. 
17. Name several nouns which are irregular in the 
formation of their plural. 
18. Correct the following:—Flattery cannot hurt 
none, but those who it is agreeable to. 
19. Parse the following:—Industry is the road to 
wealth, and virtue to happiness. 
20. Write from fifteen to twenty-five lines upon one 
only of the following subjects :—• 
A. The force of example. 
B. True courage. 
C. The power of hope. 
D-tolrntral jfwnsiditms. 
SHEFFIELD PHARMACEUTICAL AND 
CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The opening Meeting of the third winter session of 
this Association was held on Wednesday evening, Oct. 
11th, in the Rooms, Music Hall; and the following in¬ 
augural Address was delivered by the President, Mr. 
J. B. Dobb :— 
Gentlemen,—There was a time, at no distant date, 
when the chemist and druggist was treated and consi¬ 
dered as a very mysterious man, who knew something of 
herbs, drugs, chemicals, ointments and plasters; who 
could tell you something of the firmament as well as of 
the earth. There were instances of his being an astro¬ 
loger, a ruler of the planets, a curer of wounds and of all 
the ailments to which poor man is liable. The chemist 
and druggist was more of a general practitioner than he 
is now. The time has been when he was the Esculapius. 
of the town and village ; the apothecary, surgeon and 
physician; the thoughtful manufacturer of pills and 
boluses, as well as the dealer in drugs. He was often 
trusted and confided in by most of the people ; he was* 
a thorough empiric, having experience only to guide 
him. There were no laws to prevent him healing the 
sick and visiting his patients. He was the popular 
leech ; he supplanted the barber with his lancet and 
his blood-stained pole,—that pole, emblem of blood and 
linen bandage, stuck out of the front of the shaving- 
shop, how art thou fallen! Thou hast given way to the 
! gilded pestle and mortar over the door of the chemist’s 
shop, and to those quaint-looking bottles in his window.. 
"What beautiful-looking liquids they contain!—blue, 
red, green, yellow and all the colours of the rainbow~ 
surely it must be medicine! Look at the singular 
! golden marks upon those turnip-shaped globes : it must 
be the name of the stuff in them. What an awfully 
wise man the proprietor of that shop must b6! The- 
educated man looks upon the last relic of the old drug¬ 
gists—the big-bellied globes, with the Egyptian or mon¬ 
grel hieroglyphics in gilt—with a feeling of curiosity and 
sacredness, as things appertaining to physic and necro¬ 
mancy. Popularly, the chemist makes, or did make* 
wonderful profits; nothing less than 11-J-tf. in the shil¬ 
ling would satisfy the keen faith of the general public. 
The profit of 11 \cl. in the shilling had a surprising effect in. 
overflowing- the business with apprentices (accompanied 
with good premiums also). The supply of chemists and 
druggists exceeded the demand of the public. This con¬ 
stant influx brought in competition; a living could not 
be made by the sale of physic; and the chemist was 
constrained to sell other goods—perfumery, etc., in large 
towns; paints, oils and colours, and all the odds and 
ends of domestic requirements in the country to eke out. 
