322 apothecaries' company v. greenough. 
when once applied it remains so accurately adherent, that it 
does not require to be changed for many days. Altogether, 
after a good deal of experience in all the different plasters, 
we find it the best uniting material that has ever been pro- 
duced." 
In applying the isinglass to the membrane plaster, the di- 
rections already mentioned, with reference to the oil silk, 
may be observed, but a layer of drying oil is spread on the 
other side of the membrane. — Ibid. 
ART. LX.— THE APOTHECARIES' COMPANY v. 
GREENOUGH. 
We would gladly avoid any allusion to a subject which is 
calculated to give rise to party controversy, but the remarks 
which have appeared in other periodicals on the decision in 
the above case, oblige us to advert to it. 
We cannot consider the case of Mr. Greenough at all ap- 
plicable to Chemists and Druggists in general, and conse- 
quently the Pharmaceutical Society could not interfere in it 
in any way. When applied to by the defendant for protec- 
tion some months back, the Council decided, in accordance 
with the opinion of their solicitor, that they could not render 
him any assistance, as he had been in the habit of acting 
professedly as a surgeon, designating himself as such in his 
bills, and charging for attendance as a medical practitioner. 
It appeared on evidence at the trial that he had even boasted 
of having 300 patients on his books. By this course they 
consider that he had exceeded the legitimate functions of a 
chemist and druggist, and had, in fact made himself ineligible 
as a member of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
Had the case been one in which a chemist had casually, on 
an emergency, or as an act of humanity, visited a patient, we 
