PHARMACY IN FRANCE. 
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And this is the result. A roasted pheasant with such stuffing 
would be no joke. 
Medians. But was there not some difficulty, in consequence 
of a neighbouring farmer having steeped his spring wheat in 
arsenic, for sowing a field hard by! 
Chemicus. There was at first. On the other side of a ravine, 
on the hither bank of which lay the dead birds, there is such a 
field. I don’t know, however, if arsenic was contained in the 
farmer’s steep , or, consequently, in his wheat. But there was 
no wheat in the pheasant’s crops—oats, pease, and haws, and 
grass roots in abundance, but no wheat. Therefore the cause, 
the agent, the purpose, and the habit and repute, are all equally 
evident. I wish the scoundrels had dined on them, or else left 
out the arsenic, that honest men might have done so. 
Medicus. Console yourself with this new importation—these 
American partridges, which combine a rare whiteness and ten¬ 
derness with a high game flavour; and are even finer, too, in 
July, judging from a single trial twenty months ago. This is 
no small an invention in the gastronomy of convalescence. 
The bird is almost twice the weight of an East Lothian part¬ 
ridge, and comes at a time when no other game is to be had of 
gastronomic note,—nothing save stringy ptarmigan and tarrv 
capercailzies from Norway, a wild goose now and then from 
Gullane Links, or a stray whaup, or a lean wild duck, or a 
miserable leveret. 
Editor. But is it a partridge ] Its tail, which garnishes the 
dish, pheasant-like, is rather the tail of a hawk. 
Medicus. And the cock has a black ruff. Still it is a part¬ 
ridge, the Drumming partridge of the Americans; or at least a 
Tetrao, the T. Umbellus of naturalists. 
Monthly Journal of Med. Science, June 1S52. 
PHARMACY IN FRANCE. 
The pharmaciens in France are much in advance of the 
pharmaceutical chemists of this country, in their education and 
social position. Their regular organization as an educated body 
took place in the year 1803, and progressive improvements 
have subsequently been made in the regulations of the schools 
of pharmacy, in the examinations, and in the laws relating to 
the practice of pharmacy. The pharmaciens are completely 
isolated from the medical profession on one side, and from the 
grocers on the other. They have acquired an independent 
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