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charged  with  having  sold  a  secret  remedy  to  which  he  gave  his 
name.  This  remedy  was  announced  to  the  public  by  an  immense 
placard  attached  to  the  shop-windows,  on  which  was  inscribed 
the  following  notice  : — "  A  gratuitous  distribution  of  Balsam 
P  ,  for  the  cure  of  wounds,  ulcers,  burns,  tetters,  &c,  takes 
place  for  the  poor  every  Saturday  and  Thursday,  from  seven  to 
eight  o  clock  in  the  evening,  at  the  Pharmacy  of  the  inventor, 
under  the  special  and  gratuitous  direction  of  a  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine of  the  Faculty  of  Paris."  P — —  was  condemned  to  a  fine 
of  twenty-five  francs. 
Pommade  B. 
A  seizure  was  made  a  short  time  ago  at  the  establishments  of 
the  makers  and  sellers  of  the  Pomade  B.,  brought  forward  as  a 
remedy  for  fleshy  excrescences,  gatherings,  burns,  wounds,  ulcers, 
large  boils,  and  corns.    For  this,  Messrs.  B          and  V  
were  sent  before  the  correctional  police.  B  is  much  sur- 
prised that  an  action  should  be  brought  against  him  now  on 
account  of  the  sale  of  a  pommade  which  has  been  sold  peacably 
for  the  last  fifty  years,  from  father  to  son,  the  recipe  being  a 
secret  in  the  family.    It  is  precisely  because  it  is  a  secret  that 
the  Court  condemns  Messrs.  B  and  V  each  to  a  fine  of 
fifty  francs. 
See,  lastly,  how  affairs  are  managed  in  that  quiet  old  city, 
Antwerp.  "  The  Pharmacien-in-Chief  of  the  Hopital  du  Midi, 
M.  Personne,  twice  Prizeman  (Laure'at)  of  the  Paris  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society,  and  author  of  many  important  chemical  researches, 
presented  himself  before  the  Antwerp  Pharmaceutical  Society  as 
a  candidate,  and  was  rejected.  The  advertisements  in  the  papers 
of  Personne's  Iodized  Oil  were  the  sole  cause  for  this  exclusion. 
Honor  to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  for  having,  in  so  striking 
a  manner,  given  a  lesson  of  professional  dignity  to  all  these 
specialists  and  advertisement-mongers  who  spring  up  (pullulent) 
in  Paris." — (Journal  de  Pharmacie  Anvers,  Dec,  1857.) 
Now  we  are  in  a  better  position  to  arrive  at  some  definite 
conclusion  with  regard  to  English  and  French  Pharmacy.  Both 
systems  have  their  merit.  The  first  relies  on  commercial  honor, 
the  second  on  minute  external  regulations. 
To  these  latter  may  in  part  be  attributed  that  curious,  apa- 
thetic, easy  manner,  which  characterizes  our  foreign  brethren,  and 
