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ever  justifiable  It  might  be  for  the  dispenser  to  retain  the  original  prescription  for 
his  own  safety,  we  certainly  think  he  is  bound  in  equity  to  send  to  his  patient,  with 
the  medicine,  a  true  copy,  so  that  the  patient  may  please  himself  as  to  when  and 
where  he  will  have  a  repetition  of  it  compounded."  [Pharm.  Jour,  and  Trans. ^  Nov, 
22,  p.  410.) 
We  agree  with  these  views  as  to  the  right  of  patients  to  have  a  prescription 
renewed,  and  that  the  pharmacist  cannot  legally  refuse  such  renewal  if  demanded. 
But  we  are  also  aware  that  sometimes  harm  may  be  done,  if  a  medicine  prescribed 
for  one  person  be  ased  on  another  occasion  of  sickness,  or  by  a  different  patient. 
The  risk  of  renewal  is  evidently  with  the  patient,  and  not  with  the  pharmacist  or 
the  physician  ;  but  the  latter  might  in  a  great  measure  prevent  such  errors  of  judgment 
by  cautioning  their  patients  as  to  the  danger  of  an  indiscriminate  use  of  a  medicine,, 
of  the  effects  of  which,  in  health  or  disease,  they  can  have  no  knowledge. 
John  Broughton. — Twoyearsago  ("Am.  Jour.  Phar  ,"  1878,  p.  38)  we  informed 
our  readers  that  the  well-known  quinologist  of  the  Neilgherries  cinchona  plantations 
was  supposed  to  have  been  murdered.  We  learn  from  the  "  Pharmaceutical  Jour- 
nal "  (London),  1879,  Nov.  22,  that  according  to  the  "  Madras  Mail"  Mr.  Brough- 
ton is  at  present  at  Colombo.  He  left  Ootacamund  somewhat  unexpectedly  about 
four  years  ago,  and  with  the  exception  of  some  mysterious  rumors,  nothing  wa& 
known  as  to  where  he  had  gone.  A  (  orrespondent  of  the  "  Daily  News,"  referring 
to  the  statement  of  the  "Madras  Mail,"  remarks  that  "it  is  little  to  the  credit  of 
the  Madras  Government  that  the  fate  of  an  officer  high  in  their  service  should  be 
involved  in  such  mystery." 
OBITUARY. 
Antoine  Baudoin  Poggiale  died  at  Bellevue,  near  Paris,  on  the  26th  day  of 
August  last.  He  was  born  on  the  Island  of  Corsica  February  9th,  1808,  entered  a 
military  hospital  as  a  student  in  pharmacy,  and  graduated  as  doctor  in  medicine  in 
1833.  From  1837  to  1847  he  was  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  Lille,  and  subsequently 
chief  pharmacist  and  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  Hospital  of  Val  de  Grace  at  Paris. 
He  served  as  pharmacist  with  the  French  army  in  Africa,  and  in  1858  was  promoted 
to  the  highest  rank  in  military  pharmacy,  that  of  Pharmacist  Inspector.  Poggiale 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  French  Academy  in  December,  1856,  was  for  several 
years  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris,  and  for  a  long  time  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  "Journal  de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie."  His  scientific  investiga- 
tions were  mostly  in  chemistry  in  its  application  to  pharmacy,  physiology  and 
hygiene. 
