THE PHARMACY AMENDMENT ACT. 
665 
have to answer for, and yet how positively indispensable the 
practice is, too much importance cannot be attached to the 
subject, and we doubt not that all who have anything to say 
which has not yet been said wdll avail themselves of the 
opportunity which is now afforded by the Scottish Society 
of expressing their views, with every chance of substantial 
recognition being accorded to all that is really valuable. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE PHAUMACY AMENDMENT ACT. 
The following extract from the Act to amend ‘ The Phar¬ 
macy Act, 1868,’ dated 11th August, 1869^ will show the 
position which the veterinary profession now holds with 
regard to this important law. It will be further observed 
that the Act recognises the distinction which exists between 
those who are members of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, and those who simply possess the certificate of the 
Highland and Agricultural Society, and are, in fact, not 
legally constituted veterinary surgeons : 
Whereas it is expedient to amend the provisions of the 
Pharmacy Act, 1868, in regard to duly qualified medical 
practitioners and veterinary surgeons, and in other respects : 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual 
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament 
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 
1. Nothing contained in the first fifteen sections of the 
recited Act shall affect any person who has been registered 
as a legally qualified medical practitioner before the passing 
of this Act; and the said clauses shall not apply to any 
person who may hereafter be registered as a legally qualified 
practitioner, and who, in order to obtain his diploma for such 
registration, shall have passed an examination in pharmacy; 
nor shall the said clauses prevent any person who is a member 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great 
Britain, or holds a certificate in veterinary surgery from the 
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, from dis¬ 
pensing medicines for animals under his care.” 
