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which  is  labelled  in  a  different  style  from  the  poison  bottle  upon  which  the 
•skull  and  cross-bones  warn  of  its  dangerous  contents.  Various  contrivances 
have  been  introduced  to  fasten  the  stoppers  of  poison  bottles,  and  poison  cases 
have  been  constructed,  from  which  but  one  bottle  at  a  time  can  be  removed,  or 
where  each  bottle  has  its  place  into  which  it  alone  exactly  fits.  In  putting  up 
prescriptions,  the  weighing  and  measuring  of  every  article  or  else  of  every 
poisonous  article  is  witnessed  by  another  clerk  ;  or  the  prescription  is  copied 
before  it  is  put  up  by  the  same  person  ;  or  the  articles  and  quantities  are  re- 
peated from  memory  to  another  competent  person  after  the  prescription  is  put 
up.  The  labels  for  external  medicines  are  printed  or  written  in  red  or  other 
striking  color,  and  caution  labels  or  tags  are  attached  to  the  bottle.  Mr.  Wm. 
C.  Bakes  uses  labels  with  a  sanded  border,  and  Mr.  H.  M.  Wilder,  in  a  note  to 
*as,  suggests  the  more  convenient  and  cheaper  plan  of  pasting  on  the  bottle  a 
■slip  of  sand  paper,  which  may  be  rendered  more  attractive  by  cutting  it  in  the 
shape  of  a  star,  lozenge  or  similar  pattern. 
Every  careful  pharmacist  has  adopted  one  or  more  of  these  precautions,  or 
perhaps  others  not  enumerated  here,  to  guard  against  mistakes,  so  as  to  ren- 
der their  occurrence  almost  impossible,  and  where  they  happen  in  a  pharmacy, 
it  will  be  found  that  such  precautions  have  been  neglected.  But  to  avoid  mis- 
takes by  the  patients  or  their  nurses,  it  seems  to  us  the  plain  duty  of  the  phy- 
sician and  pharmacist  to  educate  them  to  the  necessity  of  never  using  a  medi- 
cine without  examining  the  label,  and  hence  for  the  physician  to  write  directions 
for  using  the  medicine  upon  every  prescription,  and  for  the  pharmacist  to  care- 
fully copy  such  directions  in  full,  while  at  the  same  time  other  precautionary 
measures  should  not  be  neglected. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Fourth  and  Fifth 
Annual  Meetings,  held  in  Portland,  July  18,  1871.  and  July  16,  1872,  and  the 
adjourned  meeting,  held  September  19th,  1871,  with  the  charter,  constitution 
and  by  laws,  and  the  code  of  ethics,  roll  of  members,  &c.  Portland  :  Stephen 
Berry,  Printer,  1872.    8vo.?  pp.  36. 
Accounts  of  the  annual  meetings  were  published  in  this  journal  in  1871,  on 
page  375,  and  in  the  August  number  of  the  present  year.  At  the  adjourned 
meeting  held  September  19,  1871,  the  principal  business  transacted  was  to  re- 
ceive the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  School  of  Pharmacy.  The  support 
promised  appears  to  have  been  insufficient  to  warrant  the  opening  of  the  school. 
The  time  of  the  annual  meetings  has  been  changed  from  the  middle  of  July  to 
the  third  Tuesday  of  October. 
Transactions  of  the  Georgia  Medical  Association  at  its  Twenty-third  Annual 
Meeting,  held  in  Columbus,  Georgia,  on  the  10th,  11th  and  12th  of  April 
1872.    Atlanta:  W.  R.  Barrow,  1872.    8vo.,  pp.  134. 
The  reception  of  this  volume,  which  contains  several  interesting  papers  on 
medical  and  surgical  subjects,  is  hereby  acknowledged. 
