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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS 
[January 20, 1872 
It has often been urged that the liability of drug¬ 
gists to the infliction of damages through the im¬ 
proper sale or dispensing of poisons is a great in¬ 
centive to carefulness on their part. But we venture 
to say that even those who most constantly have 
this fear before their eyes have hardly realized the 
extent to which the principle may be developed. This 
has been left to the proverbial ingenuity of our 
American cousins. The New York Times , a short 
time since, contained a report of a case which may 
be usefully mentioned here as a sort of cave canon! 
An apothecary in one of the interior counties of New 
York has been sued for damages by the husband of 
a woman to whom he had been in the habit of selling 
laudanum, and the Supreme Court has decided that 
the action can be maintained. The plaintiff avers 
that the apothecary supplied his wife with the nar¬ 
cotic, day by day, for six months, knowing the use 
she made of it, and that he has been put to great 
expense in repairing the injury that it caused to her 
bodily and mental health! Medical men who create 
an appetite for alcohol in their patients had better 
beware! 
The thorough organization of the forest depart¬ 
ment in India has led to the preservation and exten¬ 
sion of many useful trees, but we are sorry to find 
that more attention is not paid by the authori¬ 
ties to other useful plants. Thus we learn that, 
in some parts of the Madras Presidency, where 
the cardamom grows spontaneously in many hill 
tracts, and where, with good management and cul¬ 
tivation, it might be made to j yield a handsome 
return, it is turned to little or no account. In South 
Oanara some cardamom tracts have been sold on a 
lease of several years for a very small sum ; and in 
portions of the Anamallays, Madura, Tinnivelly, 
etc., the Government tracts are poached on by col¬ 
lectors under the Cochin and Travancore Govern¬ 
ments. In a great portion of these forests, however, 
the cardamoms are left uncared for, so that they 
simply rot upon the plants. 
The British Medical Journal states that Professor 
Halford has received the thanks of the Indian Go¬ 
vernment for his paper on the Treatment of Snake¬ 
bite by Injection of Liquor Ammonite into the veins, 
and that his pamphlet on the subject is to be re¬ 
printed for general distribution to medical officers in 
different parts of India. 
Ax American correspondent of the Medical Times 
and Gazette, speaking of the decline in the reputation 
of condurango as a therapeutic agent, says that it is 
selling now at only two per cent, of its original cost, 
and the early purchasers are naturally sensitive at 
this change in its pecuniary valuation. One of them 
has recently found that he has not even bought the 
original article. We observe that condurango is 
now commencing to be prominently advertised in 
this country. 
EXAMINATIONS. 
January 1st, 1872. 
PRELIMINARY. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Two hundred and twenty-nine Candidates presented 
themselves for this examination in England and Wales. 
The following- one hundred and thirty-three passed, and 
were duly registered as 
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Robinson, Richard Atkinson .. London. 
Cobb, Joseph S.Doncaster. 
Gibbs, Joseph .. .....Tunbridge Wells. 
Baikie, Peter... .„ .Belfast. 
Balls, James...Diss. 
Roberts, Tobias.Camborne. 
Davis, William Richard.Douglas, I. of Man. 
Trevaskis, George Marrack .. London. 
Whittaker, John Morris.Pendleton. 
Miles, Charles John.Bristol. 
Lowther, William .Swansea. 
Jackson, Frederic. ..Bawtry. 
Townend, Thomas Francis.... Durham. 
Manning, Alfred .Strood. 
Hardy, Joseph Wrangham .... Grantham. 
Owles, Arthur .Bungay. 
Rheeder, Thomas.Knaresborough. 
Aves, Arthur..Mansfield. 
Craig, George .Merthyr TydviL 
Marshall, Arthur Willows ... .Rusholme. 
Parker, Robert Henry.....Barnstaple. 
Partington, John James.Macclesfield. 
Marshall, Arthur Barbarie.... Crawley. 
Rayson, Arthur John.. .Diss. 
Shaw, William.. Preston. 
Whelpton, George Bates.Retford. 
Boucher, Edward Grove ...... Birkenhead. 
Cule, Taliesin .Merthyr TydviL 
Baines, Arthur.Stoke-on-Trent. 
Carter, William Robinson_Rusholme. 
Gardner, Edward.. Pendleton. 
Allison, Edward Arthur .......Hull. 
Hinkley, Edward.Newcastle, Staffs. 
Holwell, Alfred .. Loughborough. 
Shaw, William Hemingway . .Easthorpe, Mirfield. 
Harris, David Philip .Merthyr Tydvil. 
Russell, James...Malton. 
Dalzell, Isaac William .Maryport. 
Garrett, John .Guilsborough. 
Col will, Frederick Henry .... Truro. 
Gallier, Robert.Tunbridge Wells. 
Hughes, Thomas.Dowlais. 
Wells, William.Chorley. 
Moses, Joseph .Bishop Auckland. 
Bailey, Samuel Go ward ...... Stamford. 
Gillibrand, Thomas .....Salford. 
Morris, David .Cardigan. 
Stevens, James .... .Stroud. 
Law, Alfred ... Towcester. 
Hayward, Stanley .Reading. 
Dowdeswell, Jonathan.Tiverton. 
Maurice, Charles Roberts .London. 
Blades, William Wrench ... .Northwich. 
Marshall, James .Over, near St. Ives.. 
Saunders, Francis Henry ... .Haverfordwest. 
Goddard, Enoch William .... Nottingham. 
Harrison, James . Sunderland. 
Adams, Andrew Hemy.Montacute. 
