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303 audience Rhodesia as it is and its capabilities, expressing his belief that that territory has and will have the greatest e:Eect in producing the future of South Africaa future which he wished to interpret as the commercial union, amalgamation, and federation of the South African States. Rhodesia, the lecturer said, is a country nearly as
large as Europe, a country where white men and
women can
live and where their children can be reared in health. In minerals and in the products of agriculture the country is rich, and railways, roads, and telegraphs are rapidly opening it up. The picture drawn by Dr. Jameson was of a land veritably flowing with milk and honey, and even if some allowance is made for his high eulogies, still what the lecturer desired to prove seems undeniable-namely, that in our African territory there we have magnificent accommodation for our overflow population.
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disease of the heart and kidneys, as was the deceased. The chemist here remarked that the mixture contained a small quanity of chlorodyne and sal volatile. On the coroner calling his attention to the fact that he had offended against the Pharmaceutical Act the following conversation ensued :" The Chemist : It is a difficult thing to be a chemist at the present day. All chemists ought to be doctors, it seems. to me. You have to say how people are to take their breakfasts, dinners, teas, and suppers, and how to use every halfpennyworth of stuff you sell.-The Coroner : But you knowthat by prescribing poisons you are committing an illegal act, for which you can be punished, and it is my duty to tell you so. I know your difficulties, and no doubt you think it hard that when a person comes to you late at night you are. not allowed to serve him, but I must tell you that you run a great risk if you prescribe poisons.-The Chemist: I do not prescribe for people as a rule, and it is impossible for a. chemist to say whether a person is suffering from heart disease.-The Coroner : But chemists must not act in the dark. You know it is beyond the province of a chemist to prescribe poisons.-The Chemist : Then medical men should not do their own dispensing. It seems an anomaly, because the Government allows me to sell as much chlorodyne as I like provided the bottle bears a stamp. "
WE publish this week the report of the Director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine. In this is included the reports of the medical superintendents of certain of the THE PROHIBITIVE PRICE OF ABSOLUTE fever hospitals under the management of the Metropolitan ALCOHOL. Asylums Board upon the results of the antitoxin treatment THERE are few agents at the present time which play a of diphtheria at their several institutions. We have from the more felt that so a in important or useful r6le in practical scientific operations beginning treatment, important departure with such high claims and excellent introductions, ought not than absolute alcohol. Indeed, its use is indispensable to be judged lightly or speedily, and that all judgment should in the prosecution of chemical, bacteriological, and physiobe based upon clinical records of series of cases undertaken logical researches, to say nothing of the necessity of its under special and highly tested conditions. The reporting of employment in the preparation of the fluids used in sero-isolated cases can, we consider, only be useful when such therapeutics. Yet all who are actively concerned in these cases are properly collated for purposes of comparison, and important lines of research are severely handicapped when all the data necessary for making fair comparison because of its excessive price, very nearly the whole of which accrues to the Excise. On the Continent the retail price are forthcoming. of absolute alcohol is considerably less than that charged PRESCRIBING CHEMISTS. in this country, and there is little doubt that this is one THE question whether it is not only legal but desirable of the sources of the increased facilities in research work that a person with no medical qualification should prescribe which obtain there.; at any rate, its cost here militates for a patient of whom he knows nothing was forcibly illus- against such progressive work. Surely in the interests of trated by a case which came before the St. Pancras Coroner’s science and progress the authorities could be induced to Court on Jan. 22nd, a brief account of which we give as grant a special concession in this matter to bonâ-firlt, reported by the Times. James Jefferies, aged fifty-eight years, research workers and to those engaged in unravelling the having complained of severe internal pain, his daughter-in- mysteries of disease. Why should not a memorial be law went to a chemist’s and brought back an eight-ounce drawn up and signed by influential members of the various bottle labeled The mixture ; one tablespoonful to be taken scientific societies and presented in the proper quarter!’ We feel sure that our remarks will appeal to the majority every hour if needful.-J. B. Johnston, 218, Kentish-townthe members of the scientific professions. of road." The sufferer took a dose at once and was relieved, but at 3 A.M., being again in pain, he took another dose THE DIFFUSION OF SMALL-POX. and died. Dr. Sanctuary stated that on making a postTHE number of fresh cases of small-pox notified in London’ mortem examination he found a large aortic aneurysm which had caused death by pressure on the trachea. last week was7 and the admissions to the institutions of the In this particular case the action of the chemist probably Metropolitan Asylums Board 8, against 8, 8, and 6 respecin no way accelerated the patient’s death ; but the difficulty tively in the preceding three weeks. The end of the week of the responsibility of the unqualified prescriber still found 35 patients in hospital, an increase of 3 on the previous remains. The poorer classes make no distinction between Saturday. The disease does not obtain any great hol& a °’ doctor "and a "chemist." They are both people from on the metropolis, nor is it completely shaken off. Mr. whom you can get "a bottle" at eighteenpence or a "pink Wynter Blyth relates small-pox has been successfully come powder" for twopence. To be perfectly just to an intelligent bated under inauspicious circumstances in Marylebone last and upright body of men, it is fair to say that deaths can but month. Four virulent cases were removed from premises-. rarely be traced to the action of any drug supplied by a the ground-floor of which was used as a small general shop. chemist. The danger lies in the disease not being recognised, Prompt removal of the patients and closure of the shop. and as long as those responsible for the sick are content to under payment made to the tradesman have resulted in seek the services of an unqualified authority, we fail to see staying the disease. This instance is in striking contrast. how the law can protect them against themselves except by to the case which led to such disaster a few months making it illegal for any chemist to supply any remedy ago in the same parish. In the provinces the news is. without the authorisation of a duly qualified practitioner. generally of a reassuring nature. We are glad to see that Questioned as to whether the medicine the man had taken despite its two registered deaths Birmingham had only had anything to do with the death, the witness replied that some half-dozen fresh attacks; whilst Liverpool with the he could not say, but that no medical man would have same number of deaths registered had only some dozen cases prescribed such a mixture for a patient suffering from coming newly to light. Lancashire was otherwise fairly free: -
large as Europe, a country where white men and
women can
live and where their children can be reared in health. In minerals and in the products of agriculture the country is rich, and railways, roads, and telegraphs are rapidly opening it up. The picture drawn by Dr. Jameson was of a land veritably flowing with milk and honey, and even if some allowance is made for his high eulogies, still what the lecturer desired to prove seems undeniable-namely, that in our African territory there we have magnificent accommodation for our overflow population.
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disease of the heart and kidneys, as was the deceased. The chemist here remarked that the mixture contained a small quanity of chlorodyne and sal volatile. On the coroner calling his attention to the fact that he had offended against the Pharmaceutical Act the following conversation ensued :" The Chemist : It is a difficult thing to be a chemist at the present day. All chemists ought to be doctors, it seems. to me. You have to say how people are to take their breakfasts, dinners, teas, and suppers, and how to use every halfpennyworth of stuff you sell.-The Coroner : But you knowthat by prescribing poisons you are committing an illegal act, for which you can be punished, and it is my duty to tell you so. I know your difficulties, and no doubt you think it hard that when a person comes to you late at night you are. not allowed to serve him, but I must tell you that you run a great risk if you prescribe poisons.-The Chemist: I do not prescribe for people as a rule, and it is impossible for a. chemist to say whether a person is suffering from heart disease.-The Coroner : But chemists must not act in the dark. You know it is beyond the province of a chemist to prescribe poisons.-The Chemist : Then medical men should not do their own dispensing. It seems an anomaly, because the Government allows me to sell as much chlorodyne as I like provided the bottle bears a stamp. "
WE publish this week the report of the Director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine. In this is included the reports of the medical superintendents of certain of the THE PROHIBITIVE PRICE OF ABSOLUTE fever hospitals under the management of the Metropolitan ALCOHOL. Asylums Board upon the results of the antitoxin treatment THERE are few agents at the present time which play a of diphtheria at their several institutions. We have from the more felt that so a in important or useful r6le in practical scientific operations beginning treatment, important departure with such high claims and excellent introductions, ought not than absolute alcohol. Indeed, its use is indispensable to be judged lightly or speedily, and that all judgment should in the prosecution of chemical, bacteriological, and physiobe based upon clinical records of series of cases undertaken logical researches, to say nothing of the necessity of its under special and highly tested conditions. The reporting of employment in the preparation of the fluids used in sero-isolated cases can, we consider, only be useful when such therapeutics. Yet all who are actively concerned in these cases are properly collated for purposes of comparison, and important lines of research are severely handicapped when all the data necessary for making fair comparison because of its excessive price, very nearly the whole of which accrues to the Excise. On the Continent the retail price are forthcoming. of absolute alcohol is considerably less than that charged PRESCRIBING CHEMISTS. in this country, and there is little doubt that this is one THE question whether it is not only legal but desirable of the sources of the increased facilities in research work that a person with no medical qualification should prescribe which obtain there.; at any rate, its cost here militates for a patient of whom he knows nothing was forcibly illus- against such progressive work. Surely in the interests of trated by a case which came before the St. Pancras Coroner’s science and progress the authorities could be induced to Court on Jan. 22nd, a brief account of which we give as grant a special concession in this matter to bonâ-firlt, reported by the Times. James Jefferies, aged fifty-eight years, research workers and to those engaged in unravelling the having complained of severe internal pain, his daughter-in- mysteries of disease. Why should not a memorial be law went to a chemist’s and brought back an eight-ounce drawn up and signed by influential members of the various bottle labeled The mixture ; one tablespoonful to be taken scientific societies and presented in the proper quarter!’ We feel sure that our remarks will appeal to the majority every hour if needful.-J. B. Johnston, 218, Kentish-townthe members of the scientific professions. of road." The sufferer took a dose at once and was relieved, but at 3 A.M., being again in pain, he took another dose THE DIFFUSION OF SMALL-POX. and died. Dr. Sanctuary stated that on making a postTHE number of fresh cases of small-pox notified in London’ mortem examination he found a large aortic aneurysm which had caused death by pressure on the trachea. last week was7 and the admissions to the institutions of the In this particular case the action of the chemist probably Metropolitan Asylums Board 8, against 8, 8, and 6 respecin no way accelerated the patient’s death ; but the difficulty tively in the preceding three weeks. The end of the week of the responsibility of the unqualified prescriber still found 35 patients in hospital, an increase of 3 on the previous remains. The poorer classes make no distinction between Saturday. The disease does not obtain any great hol& a °’ doctor "and a "chemist." They are both people from on the metropolis, nor is it completely shaken off. Mr. whom you can get "a bottle" at eighteenpence or a "pink Wynter Blyth relates small-pox has been successfully come powder" for twopence. To be perfectly just to an intelligent bated under inauspicious circumstances in Marylebone last and upright body of men, it is fair to say that deaths can but month. Four virulent cases were removed from premises-. rarely be traced to the action of any drug supplied by a the ground-floor of which was used as a small general shop. chemist. The danger lies in the disease not being recognised, Prompt removal of the patients and closure of the shop. and as long as those responsible for the sick are content to under payment made to the tradesman have resulted in seek the services of an unqualified authority, we fail to see staying the disease. This instance is in striking contrast. how the law can protect them against themselves except by to the case which led to such disaster a few months making it illegal for any chemist to supply any remedy ago in the same parish. In the provinces the news is. without the authorisation of a duly qualified practitioner. generally of a reassuring nature. We are glad to see that Questioned as to whether the medicine the man had taken despite its two registered deaths Birmingham had only had anything to do with the death, the witness replied that some half-dozen fresh attacks; whilst Liverpool with the he could not say, but that no medical man would have same number of deaths registered had only some dozen cases prescribed such a mixture for a patient suffering from coming newly to light. Lancashire was otherwise fairly free: -