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LEEDS chemists’ ASSOCIATION. 
Tamplin, Kicliard W., F.E.C.S., Surg. to 
Orthop£eclic Hosp. 
Tatum, Thomas, E.R.C.S., Surg. to St. 
George’s Hosp. 
Thompson, Henry, M.D., Phys. to Mid¬ 
dlesex Hosp. 
Thompson, Henry, F.E.C.S. and M.B., 
Surg. to University Coll. Hosp. 
Tonge, Morris, M.D., King’s. Coll. Hosp. 
Toynbee, James, F.K.C.S. and F.E.S., 
Surg. to St. Mary’s Hosp. 
Watson, Thomas. M.D., Pres. Eoyal Coll, 
of Physicians. 
Watson, W. Spencer, F.R.C.S. and M.B., 
Assist.-Surg. King’s Coll. Hosp. 
Webb, W. W., M.H., Middlesex Hosp. 
Wells, Thomas Spencer, F.K.C.S., Surg. 
to the Queen’s Household. 
Wells, J. Soelberg, M.D., Surg. to Mid¬ 
dlesex Hosp. 
Whitfield, E. G., St. Thomas’s Hosp. 
Williams, C. J. B., M.H. and F.E.S., 
Phys. to University Coll. Hosp. 
Willis, Francis, M.D., Assist.-Phys. West¬ 
minster Hosp. 
Wood, Fredk., F.E.C.S., St. Bartholo¬ 
mew’s PIosp. 
Wood, John, F.E.C.S., Assist.-Surg. 
King’s Coll. Hosp. 
Wormald, Thomas, F.E.C.S. and 
V.P.E.C.S., St. Bartholomew’s Hosp. 
The names of the physicians and surgeons who petitioned from the leading pro¬ 
vincial towns are too voluminous for insertion hero. 
APPENDIX H. 
Extracts from a Letter addressed to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society in 
December last, on the subject of Compulsory Examinations. 
The meeting of Parliament will not probably be deferred beyond eight or ten weeks 
from this time, and as, in my humble judgment, the opportunity may prove a golden 
one for giving stability to the Pharmaceutical Society, and prove a means of greatly 
extending its sphere of usefulness, I venture, as one of its earliest adherents, to address 
you on the subject. It is obvious, I think— 
1. That the public interests require those to whom the compounding of prescriptions 
is entrusted to be men of fair education and competent to the discharge of their im¬ 
portant duties. 
2. That it is important to practitioners of medicine that those on whom they rely as 
Pharmaceutists should be capable and trustworthy. 
3. That it is desirable, for the satisfactory working of the Pharmaceutical Society, that 
larger powers should be given to the Council. 
4. That is desirable for the United Society of Chemists and Druggists, and for all 
chemists and druggists who are not Members of the Pharmaceutical Society, that their 
vested interests should be duly respected, and that those who practise pharmacy should 
not be divided into two sections with conflicting interests. 
Now, the Apothecaries Act of 1815 was only carried out after long agitation, after 
much strife, and after incurring much expense. Does it not form a precedent of two¬ 
fold value—in respect of what it is now desirable to do, and what to avoid? Is it not 
desirable to avert an expensive and protracted Parliamentary fight, resulting in abortive 
efforts on the part of one body to control another? Is it not desirable by uniting forces 
for the public good to disarm opposition and procure a useful Act of Parliament ? 
May not the Government, on the part of the public, and the respective medical and 
pharmaceutical bodies, effectively unite for the common good ? May not the history of 
the Apothecaries Act of 1815 teach those who wish to legislate the imperative necessity 
of recognizing all those already engaged in business? 
If an authorized register be compiled of the Members of the Pharmaceutical Society 
and the chemists and druggists who are engaged in their business prior to any given 
day in 1864, in the same way that the Medical Register deals with the medical profes¬ 
sion (particularizing those who were in practice before 1815), will not legislation become 
comparatively easy of accomplishment ? 
It is to this I would earnestly ask your attention. I am quite aware that many points 
of detail would require grave thought, and would, of course, elicit differences of opinion. 
But are not the difficulties far more likely to be adjusted if a scheme can be arranged 
"which includes all existing chemists in an authorized Register, and provides for the ex¬ 
amination by the Pharmaceutical Society of those who are to follow ? 
