apothecaries' company v. greenough. 325 
cases, be unsafe to entrust them with the medicine which 
they are permitted by law to purchase. 
The Editor of the Lancet, in alluding to " that frightful 
evil called 6 counter practice,' 99 states, that it has "doubtless 
been attended with a dreadful sacrifice of human life." We 
cannot pass unnoticed a statement of this kind, which is a se- 
rious charge against the body with which we are connected, 
and we think the author of it should have informed us how 
many cases of death from " counter practice" have come be- 
fore him during the time that he has officiated as coroner for 
the county of Middlesex. 
In conclusion, if every druggist in the kingdom would 
read the leading article in the Lancet of September 11th, all 
doubt of the necessity of the Pharmaceutical Society would 
be removed. The leading article in the Medical Gazette, of 
the same date, is no less conclusive on this point, although the 
Editor takes a different view of the case from his a content 
porary." — Ibid* 
