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not  be  expected  that  the  traveller,  albeit  a  pharmaceutist,  (urged  on  his 
journey  by  the  ever  recurring  necessity  of  seeing  much  in  a  short  time,) 
should  linger  among  his  specialities,  whilst  his  pathway  teems  with  the 
best  productions  of  the  manufactories,  the  studios,  and  the  museums  of 
the  old  world.    And  so  of  travel   the  disciple  of  Galen,  temporarily 
emancipated  from  the  pestle,  wandering  amid  the  olive  shades,  the  orange 
groves  and  vineyards  of  Southern  Europe,  is  not  tempted  to  view  them 
from  the  standpoint  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  when  among  them  he  finds 
scattered  the  tombs,  the  monuments  and  the  lands  marks  of  an  ancient  civili- 
zation, about  which  his  earliest  recollections  of  history  lead  him  to  inquire 
— and  whilst  liquorice  and  argols  and  olive  oil  and  castile  soap  are  legiti- 
mate objects  of  inquiry,  it  should  not  be  deemed  strange  if  they  received 
much  less  than  their  share  of  the  time  and  scrutiny  of  the  traveller. 
Nevertheless  we  have  some  notes  of  these  things  and  expect  to  get  them 
into  a  shape  suitable  for  publication,  offering  the  above  as  an  apology  for 
not  having  contributed  to  the  journal  during  our  absence  in  Europe. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Congresses  at  Paris. — Two  Conventions  of  Phar- 
maceutists occurred  in  Paris  in  the  month  of  August,  1867.  The  French 
National  Congress,  representing  by  100  delegates  55  Local  Pharmaceutical 
Societies,  in  a  general  Congress,  the  eleventh  of  its  kind ;  and  the  Inter- 
national Congress,  representing  the  Societies  of  Europe  and  the  United 
States.  The  subjects  under  discussion  at  the  former  were  mainly  profes- 
sional, referring  to  the  qualifications  of  practitioners  of  Pharmacy,  the 
conditions  under  which  Pharmacies  should  be  opened,  the  relations  of 
Pharmaciens  and  Physicians,  the  annual  visitation  of  shops  by  a  board  of 
inspectors,  etc.  The  Congress  embodied  its  views  on  these  points  in  a 
series  of  26  articles,  which  it  is  proposed  to  embody  in  a  law  through  the 
agency  of  the  Government.     Among  these  articles  are  the  following  : — 
Art.  1.  "No  one  shall  be  able  to  take  out  a  pharmaceutical  patent,  open 
a  pharmacy,  prepare,  vend  or  sell  any  medicine  or  remedy,  either  for 
human  medicine  or  in  the  treatment  of  animals,  if  he  has  not  been  recog- 
nized as  a  pharmacien  according  to  the  forms  determined  by  law." 
Art.  6.  Foreigners  will  not  be  permitted  to  practice  pharmacy  unless 
they  obtain  a  license  and  the  French  diploma. 
Art.  7.  A  pharmacien  cannot  hold,  directly  or  indirectly,  more  than 
one  shop  open  to  the  public.  He  can  practice  in  this  shop  no  other  pro- 
fession but  that  of  Pharmacy. 
Art.  10.  All  association  between  a  physician,  surgeon,  health  officer,  or 
veterinary  doctor,  having  for  its  object  the  exercise  of  Pharmacy,  is  inter- 
dicted ;  and  all  collusion  or  trickery  between  these  classes  is  equally  for- 
bidden. 
Art.  11.  The  simultaneous  exercise  of  Medicine  and  Pharmacy  is  inter- 
dicted, except  in  certain  specified  cases  in  country  practice. 
Art.  15  refers  to  the  action  of  a  syndic  chamber  in  visiting  shops 
