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have frequently reproved this false doctor, and the magis- 
trate of the town ; but these gentlemen have been content 
to return the communication, and have carried effrontery 
to such a point, that the magistrate has not hesitated to 
declare in public, " although the government may send a 
thousand orders, we will act as we please." Can such 
things be credited ? 
About the middle of last year, a pharmaceutist residing 
m the circle of Guns, presented a petition to the royal gov- 
ernment of Hungary, signed by himself and other prac- 
tioners of the country, in which the petitioners, in claiming 
the redress of their grievances, propose at the same time 
divers measures to be adopted for the amelioration of their 
profession. This petition produced no effect, a result which 
may be partly ascribed to the confusion created by political 
changes. It nevertheless gave rise to the abolition of the 
practice of visiting the shops of pharmaceutists. 
The different nationalities which subdivide Hungary still 
exercise a fatal influence in preventing unity among the 
pharmaceutists. The Magyars and the Germans, respec- 
tively, sympathise only with those of their own nation. It 
is melancholy to see such trifling questions cause dissension 
among our Hungarian brethren, who, above all things, 
ought to understand that their welfare depends upon union 
and concord. They have only to look to the scientific 
movements which have taken place among the pharmaceu- 
tists of Germany, Belgium, France, and other European 
countries, to be convinced of this great truth. Individual 
efforts will never be productive of important results; it is 
only by the combination of the different members of the 
body that success can be ensured to the just demands for 
redress. 
There can be no doubt that the political dissensions 
which still remain in Hungary and Austria have contribut- 
ed in preventing the pharmaceutists from obtaining redress 
for their well-founded complaints. We may hope that in 
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