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often  of  use  even  to  the  experienced  physician,  not  to  speak  of 
the  very  many  who  have  had  little  if  any  experience  in  poisoning 
cases,  and  will  likewise  enable  any  person  of  ordinary  ability  to 
administer  the  antidote  without  loss  of  time. 
And  now  a  word  in  reference  to  the  obvious  duty  of  apothe- 
caries, and  their  actual  practice  as  regards  a  state  of  preparation 
to  meet  the  emergencies  requiring  this  antidote.  In  this  country 
no  law  compels  the  pharmaceutist  to  keep  any  preparation  ;  he 
may  be  without  remedies  of  the  first  importance,  may  decline 
compounding  prescriptions  on  the  score  of  not  having  the  mate- 
rial, or  from  any  other  cause,  wilhout  any  legal  risk,  and  no  im- 
pelling motive  to  the  contrary  exists,  except  self-interest  and  a 
feeling  of  duty.  The  former  of  these  motives  is  not  always  ap- 
pealed to ;  it  has  often  happened  in  my  experience  that  no  re- 
ward, except  moral  satisfaction,  has  followed  the  trouble  and  ex- 
pense attendant  on  supplying  a  demand  for  the  antidote ;  as  the 
sufferers  too  often  belong  to  the  utterly  miserable  poor,  or  the 
messengers  come,  unprovided  with  the  means  of  payment,  from  a 
great  distance,  and,  in  the  agitation  of  the  moment,  forget  the 
due  of  the  apothecary.  In  this  city  it  has  become  a  practice  with 
many  apothecaries  to  send  applicants  for  hydrated  sesqui-oxide  to 
other  stores ;  I  have  repeatedly  been  called  on,  after  the  messenger 
had  made  a  circle  of  four,  five  or  six  stores,  and  walked  a  long 
distance,  thus  greatly  delaying  the.  application  of  the  antidote. 
When  it  is  so  easy  to  be  prepared  for  these  occasions,  it  is  greatly 
to  be  desired  that  every  apothecary  who  has  a  proper  regard  for 
his  reputation  and  duty,  will  provide  the  means  as  above  detailed, 
and  be  ever  ready. 
STATISTICS  OF  THE  GERMAN  UNIVERSITIES. 
[The  following  statistical  information  was  received  from  our  friend  Samuel  C. 
Garrigues,  in  a  letter  dated  Gottingen,  Nov.  1st,  1852.  Mr.  Garrigues,  since 
graduating  in  Pharmacy  at  Philadelphia,  has  been  spending  the  past  two  years 
at  the  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Gottingen. — Editor.] 
The  following  statistic  review  of  the  attendance  at  the  differ- 
ent  German  Universities  for  the  summer  term,  1852,  with  par- 
ticular respect  to  Medicine  and  Pharmacy,  having  lately  made 
its  appearance  in  one  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journals,  I  take 
