IS 
ON CANTHARIDAL COLLODION. 
fortunate in securing the services of men of the highest 
qualifications for their school — Fownes, Pereira, Thompson 
and Redwood. Two of these, Fownes, and Anthony Todd 
Thompson, have deceased, and the burthen of the school now 
devolves on Pereira, Redwood, and Mr. Bentley, the suc- 
essor of Prof. Thompson, in the chair of botany. Of the 
former, nothing need be observed; he is too well known by 
his Materia Medica, and his numerous contributions to the 
Journals, to need notice. His colleague, Mr. Redwood, now 
occupies the two professorships of Chemistry and Pharma- 
cy, having assumed the duties of the late Mr. Fownes. 
Mr. R. is a Pharmaceutist by education ; his sympathies are 
with his profession, and perhaps no one could be found 
better qualified to carry out the very important branches of 
instruction placed in his charge. 
I think we may infer, from the statements that have been 
made, that the future prospects of our art in England are 
flattering. The emulation at present existing, the field for 
ambiiion that opens before the younger and better quali- 
fied, in the direction of Chemistry, will tend to its advance- 
ment, as weli as to that of Chemistry, itself, and leads us to 
wish it was in our power to promise as fair a prospect for 
our own professional improvement in a national sense. 
W. P. Jr. 
ART. II.— ON CANTHARIDAL COLLODION. 
Translated from V Abeille Medicak. 
WITH OBSERVATIONS. 
By Charles S. Rand. 
"Collodion, combined with cantharidine, appears to be 
employed with the most complete success as an epispastic 
remedy. It not only can be substituted for the ordinary 
preparations of cantharides, but offers the additional advan- 
tage of not requiring the employment of leather or linen, so 
necessary for the application of the latter. Its use is parti 
