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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[June 1, 1872. 
Admitting, however, the existence of considerable 
difficulties in the way of any compulsory legislation 
of this kind, it is obviously improper that the most 
dangerous preparations of opium should he sold for 
administration to the most sensitive subjects without 
adequate, clear, and invariable notice to their re¬ 
sponsible guardians as to the character and dose of the 
potent drug which they are administering. Every 
coroner will, we believe, concur in the opinion that 
the blind and ignorant use of opiates is a fearfully 
fertile cause of infantile mortality; the testimony of 
poor-law medical officers, clergymen and pharma¬ 
cists is to the same effect. The dangers of such a 
system are increased by veiling them, and those who 
persist in applying this coercive “ quieting ” to their 
infants should not be allowed to shelter themselves 
under the plea of ignorance, of delusion, or mis¬ 
direction. In this, we believe, all pharmacists will 
concur. The process of “angel-making” will find 
no abettors in our ranks, and pharmacists will be 
among the first to forbid this massacre of the inno¬ 
cents. If we are to have woman suffrage, the female 
legislators might with advantage occupy themselves 
•with this subject at their earliest convenience. 
BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
The Town Council of Brighton has generously 
placed one of the best rooms in the Pavilion at the 
disposal of the Conference for the Annual Meeting 
•of August 13tli and 14th. 
To make any very great improvement in the ex¬ 
cellent Feeding Bottles that are now offered to the 
public by several manufacturers would appear to be a 
difficult task, and there is little doubt that, in the main, 
that article will retain its present form for many years. 
But a simple contrivance that has been introduced by 
Messrs. Ivay Brothers, of Stockport, for the purpose 
of preventing the return of the food from the tube 
into the bottle when suction is removed, has the merit 
•of ingenuity and of accomplishing the object desired. 
While upon this topic we may remark that where 
india-rubber fittings are used, they should always be 
made of pure unvulcanized black tubing, since it is 
to the sulphur used in the process of vulcanization 
that the generation of sulphuretted hydrogen some¬ 
times complained of is due. 
Dr. Mackintosh, of Downham Market, states in 
4he Lancet, that a groom having, while cleaning the 
surgery, helped himself to a quantity of sulphate of 
zinc, under the belief that it was Epsom salts, let 
his imitative faculty have play by prescribing and 
administering an ounce of it to—himself. Violent 
vomiting and severe purging soon followed, and 
painful cramps and other uncomfortable symptoms 
'were felt during the next day; but on the third day 
he was able to walk, and has since quite recovered,— 
a result that his master attributes to the greater part 
of the sulphate having been thrown oft’ by the vomit¬ 
ing, and the remainder by the purging. 
EXAMINATIONS IN LONDON. 
May 22nd and 21th, 1872. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Barnes, Bird, Carteighe, 
Cracknell, Davenport, Edwards, Oale, Clarle, Haselden, 
Ince, Linford and Southall. 
PRELIMINARY. 
The undermentioned Certificates were received in lieu 
of this examination. 
Certificate of the Law Society of the United Kingdom. 
Evans, Robert Lloyd .Birmingham. 
Certificates of the College of Preceptors. 
Crook, Charles W. W.Plymouth. 
Allen, Charles Bowen .Penzance. 
Cert if cates of the University of Oxford . 
Atkins, William Ralph.Salisbury. 
Hubard, Alfred Edward .... Birmingham 
Certificate of the University of Cambridge. 
Simon, Henry James.Burgli-lc-Marsh. 
MAJOR. 
Five candidates were examined ; of these three failed. 
The following two passed, and were declared duly quali¬ 
fied to be registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists :— 
* Kendall, Edward Basnipp. .Nottingham. 
Laugher, William.West Bromwich. 
MINOR. 
Forty-nine candidates were examined; of these, twenty- 
five failed. The following twenty-four passed, and were 
declared duly qualified to be registered as Chemists and 
Druggists:— 
* Walden, Robert Woolley... 
Dismorr, Henry.. 
Evans, Gwilym. 
Elliman, Samuel Francis ... 
Adams, Frederick Joseph... 
Appleton, Arthur James ... 
f, i Turner, Joseph Kitchin ... 
£ \ Verity, William . 
Corder, Sheppard Ransomo . 
Greaves, Abraham Walter . 
Crisp, Frederick Arthur ... 
Nicholls, Arthur Lindloy . 
Brown, George Matthew... 
Saveli, Edward Pearce 
Simcock, George . 
Stewart, Edward Hinton . 
Russell, Matthew Rawlings 
Savery, William Henry ... 
Tansley, Arthur James ... 
Francis, William Henry ... 
Walton, William Henry ... 
Allison, Reuben. 
Eckersley, Moses . 
Partridge, Samuel, jun. ... 
The above names are arranged 
.. .Newark. 
... London. 
... Swansea. 
... London. 
... Gravesend. 
... Attercliffe. 
. .. Whitehaven. 
... Northampton. 
.. .Norwich. 
_Chesterfield. 
... Clapham. 
. .. Shanklin. 
. .. Landport. 
... Southampton. 
... Birmingham. 
... Tiverton. 
.. Whitehaven. 
... Burslem. 
... Cheadle. 
,. . .Diss. 
.... Croydon. 
,... Glantwrch. 
... .Wigan. 
,.. .Dudley. 
in order of merit. 
* Passed with honours. 
froimitral imsaxtiows. 
NORWICH CHEMISTS’ ASSISTANTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
A lecture upon “ Coal Gas” was delivered at the rooms 
of the above Society, by Mr. P. H. Mason, on Wednes¬ 
day, May 22nd. 
The Chairman (Mr. Thompson), in opening the meet¬ 
ing, said he had just been informed that Mr. Sutton 
could not be present, and that Mr. Mason at the last 
