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Physicians and Surgeons, could not fail also to add a further confidence and value to the 
results of these examinations, whether on the part of the medical profession, the public, 
or the candidates themselves. 
“ Objections, too, will inevitably be pressed in committee against the Bill; and one or 
two of these have already been indicated in the debate on the second reading. Lord 
Elcho, for example, contended that it was necessary that persons in remote localities, 
keeping stores to supply all the promiscuous wants of the vicinity, should be permitted 
to sell medicines, and even to make up prescriptions, although it could not be expected 
that they should be competent to undergo examinations. Both these points may be 
passively conceded; for necessity must sometimes rule for them, where there is only a 
choice between a greater and a smaller danger; and, indeed, the thirteenth clause of 
the preferable Bill actually gives, in anticipation, all the latitude on the subject that 
need be desired. On the occasion when his lordship tells us he adventured his own 
personal experience, we might imagine him asking, after the precedent of the great 
Conde with the village barber-surgeon, whether the huckster before him was not afraid 
to administer such services to the son of a peer, a statesman, and a chief and champion 
of the volunteer movement; and can conceive a repetition of the appropriate answer— 
‘ My faith, your lordship, it is for you to be afraid.’ ” 
Articles expressing opinions, more or less identical with the majority of those given 
above, have also appeared in ‘Bell’s Weekly Messenger,’ ‘Birmingham Daily Post,’ 
‘ Daily News,’ ‘ Standard,’ ‘ Pall Mall Gazette,’ ‘ Morning Star,’ ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ 
‘ Morning Advertiser,’ 1 Montrose Standard,’ etc. etc. 
OPPOSITION TO TREE TRADE. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Gentlemen,—The Bills now before Parliament will be little or no use to the 
Druggists of this town. What militates against our interests here is, that nearly 
or quite every grocer sells drugs. It is much to be lamented that Sir Fitzroy 
Kelly's Bill will not have the effect of compelling them to desist as soon as it 
comes into force. However good the Bill may be in one sense, yet it miserably 
fails to protect the trade,—even members of the Society (like myself), w r ho have 
had* to pay the inevitable price for qualifying themselves for their profession. 
Yours faithfully, 
W. Rayner. 
Sheerness , April 8, 1865. 
LETTER EROM MR. BUOTT. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sir,—Amongst the numerous statements put forward in the ‘ Pharmaceutical 
Journal’ for this month which seem to demand correction or contradiction, 
there is one charging me personally with making an accusation which is “slan¬ 
derous and untrue.” 
I have hitherto passed by whatever you may have written or inserted in your 
Journal reflecting upon me as the mere expression of party prejudice, but, as 
the cause which I have advocated is now a matter of legislative consideration,- 
and might suffer through my silence, I feel it my duty to establish the accusa¬ 
tion I made in the name of others in the columns of the journal which has been 
the vehicle of that charge, against me. 
The passage to which I refer runs thus:— 
“ We cannot avoid remarking on the gratuitous insult which was offered to 
