THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
SECOND SERIES. 
VOL. VIII.—No. X.—APHIL, 1867. 
PHARMACEUTICAL LEGISLATION. 
The proposed additions to, and amendments of the Pharmacy Act have been 
so widely circulated and so frequently commented on, that it is unnecessary to 
occupy the space of our Journal this month by inserting “ in extenso ” the draft 
of the Bill which has been agreed on. It is indeed preferable rather to give a 
summary of its provisions only, inasmuch as the Bill itself is now in the process 
of transformation into legal phraseology, and will not issue from the trans- 
muter’s crucible in time for publication in our present number. 
Our readers are aware that in the two interviews held on the 19th ult. be¬ 
tween the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society and deputations from two 
sections of the trade, the differences which prevented success in 1865 were re¬ 
moved. Since that day the Council has authorized the Parliamentary Com¬ 
mittee to proceed with the Bill, and, having submitted it to the trade through 
the deputations above named, to put it in the hands of the Solicitor. AH this 
has proceeded satisfactorily, and we hope, but cannot feel the confidence we 
desire, owing to the state of business in the House of Commons, that the Bill 
will shortly be introduced into Parliament. 
The provisions are :— 
That from and after a certain day to be named it shall not be lawful for any 
person to use the title of Chemist and Druggist, or keep open shop for the com¬ 
pounding of prescriptions, or for retailing, dispensing, or compounding certain 
poisons (to be enumerated in a schedule)* unless he shall have previously carried 
on such business, or shall have been examined and certified as to his fitness. 
* SCHEDULE. 
Arsenic, and its preparations. 
Prussic Acid. 
Cyanides of Potassium and Mercury. 
Strychnine, and all poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts. 
Aconite, and its Tincture. 
Opium, its Extract, and Laudanum. 
Emetic Tartar. 
Corrosive Sublimate. 
Nitrates of Mercury. 
Extract of Belladonna. 
Essential Oil of Almonds, unless deprived of its Prussic Acid. 
Cantharides. 
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