THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[April 13, 1872. 
3 SO 
tions of the mistakes that have lately been so 
frequent in the administration of the Pharmacy Act 
as regards the sale of poisons. 
ICED SODA WATER. 
New times, new manners; new manners, new 
tastes ; new tastes, new inventions. Our forefathers 
of the time of Queen Anne declined to dine more 
than once, after the manner of the ancients, and our 
co-fathers of the time of Queen Victoria decline to 
drink after the manner of either. “ Give us in our 
sultry summers,” they say, “no fiery stimulants, hut 
beverages as agreeable as champagne, and more in¬ 
nocuous.” It is to the credit of our astute cousins, 
whose new home is popularly supposed to be in the 
setting sun, that they recognized and deftty minis¬ 
tered to this new want, stimulated thereto without 
doubt by the thirst natural to their solar domicile. 
Messrs. Dows, Clark and Co. were not only early 
inventors and manufacturers, but we believe their 
senior partner, Mr. Dows, was the first individual 
who conceived the idea of a really efficient Iced Soda- 
water Apparatus. He laid the foundation-stone of 
what has grown to be a large superstructure; he 
created what so many ingenious men vainly strive 
for, a new demand and a new supply. The Ame¬ 
rican public hailed with gratitude his happy combi¬ 
nation of cold sparkling gaseous water, flavoured 
with natural fruits, cunningly modified with cream, 
sugar and ice. .The popularity and consumption 
of these beverages became enormous; and a very 
considerable portion of the resulting pecuniary profit 
fell to the share of our own brethren throughout the 
United States, in whose pharmacies at the present 
time one-third of the gross annual returns is fre¬ 
quently yielded by the soda-water counter. 
Year after year this firm continue to present to us 
new forms of their inventions, more desirable either 
for greater compactness, elegance, or cheapness. 
Those of our members who were present at the 
monthly meeting on Wednesday week had the oppor¬ 
tunity of seeing the newest form of apparatus, modest 
alike in size and cost; one that may be displayed 
during the summer fur decoration or profit, and for 
the rest of the year as a polished mahogany chest, 
closed and secured with a lock and key. Others of 
white marble with four silver syrup taps are well 
suited to beginners, who desire at a moderate cost 
to gain by every available means reputation and 
profit. 
This firm are also the patentees of an ingenious 
American invention for securing the irrepressible 
corks of soda-water bottles, not by the tedious twist¬ 
ing of fine wire and the knotting of coarse string, as 
customary in England, but by means of a simple 
metal clasp. When tliis is gently pressed back, it 
releases both cork and soda water, but is itself un¬ 
impaired, and is immediately ready for use again, 
lasting as long as the bottle itself. This arrange¬ 
ment appears to us to have many advantages, and 
we have pleasure in inviting public attention to them. 
As will be seen by the official notice on the first 
page of this Journal, the Annual Meeting of the- 
North British Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society 
is to be held at noon, on Friday, the 10th inst., in 
Elliot’s Booms, Princes Street, Edinburgh. It 
should be understood that all members of the So¬ 
ciety and Associates in business are entitled to at- 
j tend and take part in the proceedings ; and as the 
business comprises the reception of the Report, the 
election of officers for 1872-73, and the nomination 
of the Board of Examiners for Scotland, it is to be 
hoped that as many as can conveniently attend will 
do so. 
Ox Monday an influential deputation, represent¬ 
ing the British Medical Association, the Poor Law 
Medical Officers’ Association, and the Social Science 
Association, had an interview with Mr. Stansfeli> 
at Gwydyr House, to call his attention to various 
defects in the Public Health Bill, and to suggest 
amendments. Mr. Stansfeld promised to consider 
carefully the suggestions, but thought that an inter¬ 
vening central authority in each district, was un¬ 
necessary, and would entail great expense. 
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BENEVOLENT FUND. 
Subscriptions and Donations Received during 
March, 1872. 
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