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ENGLISH  AND  FRENCH  PHARMACY. 
fifteen  days'  imprisonment,  and  a  fine  of  fifty  francs."  This 
wholesome  inspection  is  far  from  being  limited  to  a  case  of  fraud, 
for  the  utmost  rigor  of  the  law  visits  all  preparations  which  are 
not  made  in  strict  accordance  with  the  Codex.  By  the  decision 
of  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  July  23rd,  1748,  the  offending  Phar- 
macien  is  liable  to  a  fine  of  500  francs.  This  descision  was 
formally  confirmed  with  regard  to  its  penal  character  by  the  law 
of  21  Germinal,  year  XI.  (April  10,  1803). 
Fortunately  I  have  before  me  the  report  of  a  trial  at  Lille, 
which  affords  an  excellent  example. 
On  November  14,  1856,  a  Pharmacien  was  seized  for  having 
sold  "  Sirop  Anti-scorbutique,"  which  was  not  prepared  accord- 
ing to  the  Codex.  [This  is  the  Sirop  de  Raifort  Compose,  and 
is  directed  to  be  made  with  various  leaves  and  roots,  macerated 
in  white  wine.  After  two  days'  maceration,  it  should  be  distilled 
in  a  retort  over  a  water-bath,  and  a  fourth  of  the  wine  drawn 
over  in  which  half  the  prescribed  sugar  is  to  be  dissolved.  The 
contents  of  the  retort  should  be  pressed,  strained,  and  made 
into  a  syrup  with  the  remaining  sugar ;  both  syrups  are  then 
mixed  together.] 
The  syrup  in  question  was  made  with  an  inferior  wine,  and 
was  prepared  by  cold  maceration  instead  of  being  distilled.  The 
defence  was,  that  it  had  been  bought  from  a  wholesale  druggist ; 
the  Pharmacien  was  therefore  cleared,  and  the  authorities  went 
to  the  right  place  and  found  out  the  right  man. 
The  accused  said,  first  of  all,  that  he  had  made  the  syrup  by 
a  formula  given  in  V  Officine,  a  work  of  Dorvault,  often  used  in 
Pharmacy  ;  secondly,  that  he  sold  it  as  a  Drug-merchant,  not  as 
a  Pharmacien  ;  thirdly,  that  the  law  with  regard  to  the  prepara- 
tions of  the  Codex  had  been  annulled.  The  Court  decided  that 
every  Pharmacien  was  under  an  obligation  to  have  a  copy  of  the 
Codex,  and  absolutely  to  follow  its  directions  ;  secondly,  that  the 
penalties  consequent  on  its  infraction  remained  in  force  ;  thirdly, 
that  the  syrup  had  been  made  by  the  accused  not  as  a  Drug- 
merchant  but  as  a  Pharmacien,  there  being  an  express  law  that 
no  Drug-merchant  should  either  prepare  or  sell  any  Pharma- 
ceutical product,  but  simply  drugs  ;  and  lastly,  that  as  the  syrup 
sold  was  made  otherwise  than  according  to  the  directions  of  the 
Codex,  the  usual  sentence  must  be  pronounced — a  fine  of  500 
francs,  and  costs  of  trial. 
