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hour; but granting that the search lasted fifteen minutes, we 
contend that it is utterly impossible to have ascertained 
even by the label, the contents of each bottle and drawer in a 
shop of the smallest dimensions, much less to have removed 
the stoppers and opened the drawers. It would appear from 
Mr, Nussey, that they carry some few tests applicable to 
specific medicines, and the instance which he gives of specific 
medicines is poisonous medicines, and medicines of specific vir- 
tues. It becomes absolutely ridiculous to see language so loose 
and unscientific made use of by the representative of a society, 
the office bearers of which arrogate to themselves the merit 
of being the only board which ascertains effectually the 
knowledge possessed by a candidate of pharmacy, materia 
medica, and practice of physic. Verily, we are not asto- 
nished, that so many who have been educated at the northern 
schools, have been rejected by the learned Society of Apo- 
thecaries. For ignorant persons with authority on their side 
and want of intellect in their heads, it is easy to reject those 
who are better informed. But enough of this for the present. 
We shall return to the subject in the course of the present 
article. 
( To he Continued.) 
