The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-10 00:00:00

CHEMISTS' ASSOCIATION

of valuable pharmaceutical information. It is in conten
plation to have a soiree, such as oils which we held scm
The first Meetin fth' h h .0 of thi .' t years ago, which was numerously attended, and gave Brea
hod last
ni
ht g o e elg t sessi n L s socie y was 1 . ,
k satisfaction. Should the proposition take effect, efforts wil
.g in the Royal Institution, the President, Mr. 1
Abraham,
k be made to provide literary and scientific attractions of
ye,.. in the chair. The attendance of members was , various kinds, and the council hope to have the cordial
t'i numerous. Messrs. J. Woodcock, M. Martin, A. 1 co-operation of the members. The delivery of the
,3„.r°27.; W. Hughes, E. Watts, J. M. Buck, - Prescod, microscopic prizwehisierwientmernessttinnegxtfea.ture
our
rn this evening's
~.. uelyton,
Proceedings, i n.g , t
.----- Welch, R. Cordon, J. Shaw, E. Morris, and
H -sSu.,ogden Evans then pregseivneteod the microscope.
l'atitip_nnant, were elected members, and Messrs L. Pattiuson I prize, of the value of £3 3s, that he had placed at the dis-
, / W. Taylor associates of the society, posal of the society to the successful competitor, Mr. R. G.
West, and in doing so, expressed his gratification with the
libr
4he Secretary, Mr. Mercer, announced donations to the
competing essays, which were of a very creditable character.
.I-. nary and museum from Messrs. G. Hamilton, G. Barber,
kt. S. E
The Rev. Mr. West received the prize for his son, who is
, vans, R. Clay, and G. D k absent from town. Dr. Edwards moved a vote of thanks
The President then read the .Bans.f, to Mr. Evans for the very handsome prize he had placed
at the disposal of the society. 'I he President then presented
to Mr. W. H. Samuel, one of the laboratory pupils, the
second prize, which the council presented to him for the
second best essay, and consisted of a case of microscopical

ADDRESS.
tscilhaving again, at the commencement of au os onour to Occupy this chair, I offer a few ohs.
tolantiatters of general interest to us. First, let me congra.
e You that since the last similar occasion on which I
addreBB,d
ntijit ' You, the society has increased in numbers and in
apps Y• The museum has begun to assume a creditable
ofaranco and the library contains an increasing number
att:alliable works. The museum committee are diligently
both /1141 g to your interests in that quarter, and I hope that
f 't and the museum of the Royal Ins'itution will be .ren„,
414 1' visited by you. Ido not know that any remark:
tith r
east progress in chemical science has been made during the
In this country great interest has been excited
death "Peet to the detection of poisons in the body after
of > and it has certainly been ascertained that the detect,
more Vegetable poisons under such eircemstar-
thei; practicable than was previously sus
is not seemposition in the tissues, if it talcs
for e verY rapid, The production of the metal e.
ititer`ftniercial purposes, has continued to excite
sneer'
deeititt, and, according to a newspaper paragraph, has made
HEALTH OF THE TOWN.
kit „ Progress. It is said now to be made for 300 francs a The Medical OffiFer of Health reported that the health of
low°rTllnv?, which is about 8s per oz., and, owing to its the town
.continues in a satisfactoryi7besetante,the mortality in the
thanPe,e,ifie gravity it will, weight for weight, go much further week ending last Saturday iavmr, 20 per cent below the
preceding eight years. The
the eesuver in the manufacture of articles of domestic average. of the same week of the
per,,7° Which it is said to have already been formed. The deathsin a l
19i then2.a
smallerpari sh werenomd ibslee3r:ste,lan and
ni n,ntlyieoofutthe townships
previous
if 1;186i°11 of the government to use spirit free from duty
Isatnhe deaths' were 67, against 88
into-'1411 'with a per centage of naphtha, which bas come weeks. From. zytnotic
stiger4Peration during' the last year, is an important and in the preceding week. They include—from diarrh tea, 24
ans,
Leasurem which will cheapen some valuable prepare. (about the average). ; scarletina, 13 ; typhus, 11.
.; measles, 4 ;
4 s esubject of the adulteration of articles of food small-pox (unvaccinated), 1 ; cholera, 1;. syphilis, 1; mumps,
regard roedicine continues to agitate the public mind. In 1. Diseases of the lungs, with consumption, caused 50 deaths.
Phr"o-111.0"t!° the latter, the pharmaceutists have. been leaders in During the quarter ending on 27th of September, 3,018 deaths
tirto.,'llg improvements. 'I he pharmaceutical society was were registered
phap'' fifteen years ago, " for the sdvaneement of inquests were held. This number is 321 less than the average
in. the borough, including 152 on which
ede-elaeY, by furnishing such an uniform system of mortality of the same q.uarer of formereaused years, ,
deaths,
oeaxtchlsu,di
theng
thee4ti°ll as shall secure to the profession and the public epidemic cholera. Zymotic diseases .
4t tlitaf-est and most efficient administration of medicine." average or the same quarter of former years, without cholera,
A114°4 first annual meeting the president, the late Wm. being 1,080, Of this number 537 were
.flom diarrlzea (the
is
th:aBaid ' "Another end to be answered by the society average being about 450), 124 from. scarletina, 90 from typhus,
adieus ‘Setection and prevention of adulteration." And the
Nol' of the society has been a vehicle for the constant 7(05f fwrolliniehintewaosioesn,lysswefrroem hoopm,gerocou2gsh,f.,2oBnifid.
vacinnal6 oymsensmtearlyi,"2x2
he tire of adulterations and errors. Reform has therefore
ett io,„
from croup, 21 from cholera,from syphilis, and 2 from
Whey
e'tted by the pharmaceutical body, or at least by the mumps.
•shel
t:epPectable part of it, and that a very large number. Mr. Kiel observed that these reports were the barometers
With ~..-a4_, in effect, " the public are not properly supplied of their labours in the improvement of the sanitary condition
the „447tieines—pharmaceutists ought to be educated to of the town. It was most gratifying to find that the mortality
44 er'°lesaion, and should prove their competency by passing of Liverpool was now twenty per cent, below the average,
kr.!damination." They urged the matter on the legislature. while London, with all its centralisait:eonavaenrdanea.tionsaeleenxgpendi-
i that,
obtai,4o:b Bell, the bead of a house eminent as pharmists, ture, was only five per cent
givebelow t
qtaine" a seat in parliament, and made it his business to be hoped the public would them credit gfor their labours.
dor,u-„Aan act for the haprovement of pharmacy. Some In reference to an alleged nuisance from a sugar manuf_ac-
liitfsellin-q`'ed that all but themselves should be prohibited from tory in St. Paul's Ward, brought before the committee by Mr.
, Lnii,,edicines. The legislature took a medium cou!se. Hodson, on the complaint of Dr. Osborne, it was stated that the
41(1D-Zink, the only just one. The pharmaceutical society medical officer had long had the place under notice, but that he
448ginr-..°11813', besides providing a pharmaceutical college, could discover no nuisance.
their limed the functions of examiners. Parliament sanctioned A letter from the principal of St. Edward's College, St.
batnes"atnination, and;after permitting them to enrol the Domingo, Everton, in reference
81101thi thinkt: such persons then practising pharmacy as they
s was refer' ed to the sub-commi
t te
et o the . drainage of the district,
elie4l, fit, restricted to them, and to such persons as
1111 afterwards ass their examination, the title of
and neighbourhood, com-
In reftrence to a memorial from Mr. Shaw, churchwarden,
i and
theypaecrnie ee,entical Chemist." After some time, therefore, and the inhabitants of Copperas-hill. or ession of the name will denote either long practice
ur, Proem plaining of the nuisance occasioned by Messre:Glendenn Glendenning
pil AnA-s. acquirements. It is expected that the public Wilson's soap factory, it was agreed that thine
tiwieorpkrsesesohooeulodf
be put in motion in the course of next week,.
oeses„.•'''' that those who possess this name are more
. -,in
.11t1 bg of confidence than those who are only " Chemists the officers of the committee, who would, in a report, state the
result of their observation.
Surveyor,
Will b rtiggists,o and that the public preference
and Inspector
ar: so decidedly manifested that all who aspire The Borough Engineer, Building.
the titisPectable position will be compelled to qualify for of Nuisances, reported various particularsothe operations in
DOsse,nie• Pew men seek for medical practice without their several- departments during the week,
the
which it
40%1,% or pretending to possess, the sanction of some appeared that 102 nuisances complained of by
teheinmha.bitants
had been inspected, and means. taken. to remedy 1 231
to
we authority. Public opinion weighs on them,
4 e e/Pect the same influence in our case. We have
eaciu . houses in the unhealthiest districts, containing 3,0' apart_w,i
ments, and 428 cellars had been put under examination, h
:IN it iss've privilege except that of a distinctive title, the view of improviving their sanatory condition,
the
, not desirable that we should. If we are better
This concluded the business.
think
hat a man who has studied anatomy and physiology
oat, is .'a t 0 knew much about the means of curing disease ;
ii qt4ekaother thinks otherwise, and chooses the advice of
c'bject of 4,°, one has a right to restrict his access to the
Practice his one
and I apply the same principle to the
4'4' ex of Pharmacy But all experience shows that we
tittolieePdect thea pharmacy act to provide a body of men well
here
_ to serve the public interests. They will be far
specutiolutero
re nal and far more efficient, than any body of
geignoraec: ,Whoin the Government can provide. It is the
actiecis°' Phormists far more than the wilful adulterations
d4olv es„ 'y ahem which injures the practice of medicine.
Prepa,-. a Mbe expected to supply acids and alkaline
es„vat
thaeLion4s of the correct strength, if be has not.
_skill to
esnobit '". • Raise their qualifications, and, besides the
,eheett e'en_ge influence of knowledge, you provide, men. who
°eels 10 each
other and expose fraud. The sale of poisons has
ilt 'teed olicethasPek. en of lately, owing to tragical. events which
we, th e „PeeifY• Every thing possible might be done to
can esea; -tit of the hand of the secret assassin ; and., if
We toes, e the suicide from the effects of his insane passion,
ago, 'g do so. '1 he Arsenic Bill was passed some years ,
/ and it 0, , _ . , c
seannot b °gat to be strictly observed and enforced , and,
co death , oth
ink it has been useful, although the number
,R 9 9
Illiiell 3 ° soning, according to tables recently quoted,
%imee- iLlielieve to be authentic, do not show a diminution
'lnd banss passed of more than a very small per centage,
good n
guine that the legislature can do much
good their interference ; and, even if you could keep
not folic4ePletely out of the hands of the suicide, it does
4 kis;v:, there being so many other means ef terinating
:beatteropinle life, that you would benefit that class ;nand, in liens in the
ta for it, it is to be hoped that those who need powerful
1104)13,04 tegitirnate purposes will not be prejudiced. The
mad)
ari,, Ing of prescriptions by chemists and druggists
''qedicai ° out of the ascertained fact, that this branch of
Who
r.,_peraeti can be much better performed by persons
thee Tv thricewhole time to the business of, pharmacy,
trileopa,7onthoofse, whoa° duty it is to vi--it the sick. The aPe conle, , toese two employments has become more and
T ...siae
..„toeLe,and the public interest demands that the
tltreeieot:°ool4 progress. No doubt it will often be cone
edioai and particularly in country localities, that the
tiat in Man should be able to supply the medicine,
metilarh, in vast majority of instances, and part-
'''''onla ' In towns,
el it is far better not only that he
rol'eo, bet be interested in the sale of medi-
-1 kle the that it should be left to those who have
-11PPly of PhYsiOal properties, as well as the commerial
fjttollierous_ Medicines, their proper study. This fact is very
rl,ofillicrY acknowledged by the medical profession, and, for
a tisoos ZateMent of it, I refer you to the speech of Dr.
1,") Who '''aelagan, reported in the journal for December
to/eet!le ab
a'Pe4king of the advantages gained in Edinburgh
are Neal ndoninent of the practice of " drug selling by
men ~
f 0 tenf,j,, 7 (these are his words) says, that " the public
Eiti.nler
ezutpetter supplied than they lad been under the
seaette`unt." It is our business to see that the same
01„ta'Seola are realised here, and I do believe that there are
at. those ,511,°138 of the chemists and druggists, and still fewer
tr"lot a.' Pharmaceutical chemists, in which medicines
mangy tile ,7Pensed with more advantage to the public, than
47,1 eogagettargeries" of medical practitioners. A medical
madame in lu anything like tolerable practice, cannot be
e. - give, the necessary attention to the supplying of
f‘eW ihillea to •
Lett,- Whim, t"8 patients generally ; and the cases are very
conedl43 sui,',4l he can afford to employ an assistant compe-
eub,Miptal his place, and when he can, the variety and
14-Mkred 4°f drugs in his surgery must be very trifling,
0 ;hose ivitth the number -and quantity employed
elie,,,iNetiu,sv.,"° have to lispense for a number
mist goer -,lers . .
reoi, ~- and A • I mention this to show to the
iv..
is
thsiruggists, and to the pharmaceutists of Livers
et the). ogee may hope by increasing the advantages
the ° hey
to the public to increase their business. 1
Pali B°44:e thena to take every possible means to deserve
ientB Cefl or ss
aquioe' yth the medical profession,
fttid '483 e oareful attention which they pay to the
141c1 Pr°lllpt;.°f the medicines they nse, and the accuracy
tit. ~siel • .
Plasto, 11, I e With which they supply ens.
tefer,"' of eir,°°le'ht not to omit to mention the injurious
"1 th-eci to a -ggiqs prescribing in cases which ought to be
eess e inadietaniedical men. We ought to know something
asa7.l3eansi the action of drugs, and there may be urgentl
applin tnade ~,_ trifling cases, in which that know edge
hte not to for,tl.l to our customers ; but we ought to tell
tit, 0t qtialia rnedleal advice that we arenot medical men, and
gee k?edlal ed to treat disease. It is not as an injustice to
tit:4B4on
of Profession that I condemn this practice, it is a
to lay „fte°,4Beience and honest dealing with the sick ;
bpBrk With'/ that we cannot expect the medical profession
A nes% to a"ur upon those who neglect their proper
lDr new
d;encroach upon that of the medical man
tsteelsss,ea'n'ati°ol4e ~,,?f the L. endos . .Pharmgcopcea is in
woe's notion, ~,eenareaacuetical Society are on-operating in
' -toe entertained a strong hope that the college
ttillbi Polity ad
tort Polity opted a system of weights, by which all
fr Nees Would have been avoided, time saved, and
°lll 4 Prompt d " th,t Pe4nns fr e e Prom what I have been able to learn.
ilt_ the e_
,ons different parts of the country, I believe
es:(1 for 4tiv°i'oirdupeis
ounce is very commonly substi-
00114ding twe troY, and that the latter, in quantities
tieeege
ws
tad 9 drahms
pre almost a myth with many. If the
I,4esiaatu always scribe bY grains, of which 7,000
1,..a. et,,qe`o
.an avoirdupois pound, every one using the
rl'ghts, oftaceta would be compelled to have- a proper set of
ow - would have the benefit of a decimal system.
etieMeal, "le to remird those of our members, who are not
14lteie;estesf0ef trhe P4rinaceutical Society, that, besides the
14 esieesuu meetings Which the local papers contain, our
,sr rnets,"ge are regularly reported in the Pharmacet!ticy
, °ugh trequently at length,. that they may obtain it
44 bookseller, and will find in it a great amount

another session

Tvatiors

instruments

An interesting discussion took place on the subject
touched in the address, after which the meeting seperated.

HEALTH COMMITTEE

The asual weekly meeting of this body was held at half
past two o'clock, yesterday, in the Town Hall—Mr. Langsdale
in the chair. Other members present .—Messrs. Godfrey,
McGuffie, Diver, Hodson, Crosthwaite, Shell, Halhead,
Johnson, and Haydock.

is much
and that

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
' In reference to the complaint of a cowhouse, at Everton,
which was converted into two shops, and subsequently used as
dwellings, it appeared that the violation of the law rested with
the tenants, and that no blame attached either to the building

nosed

minum,

surveyor or landlori

TOXTETH PARK BURIAL BOARD

A special meeting of the members of the above haul was
held yesterday, at the Public-offices, Toxteth-•park, for, the
purpose of assenting to, or dissenting from, the alteration in
the scale of charges for interments in the general cemetery.
In the absence of the chairman of the board, Mr. JI. S. Alpass
was requested to take the chair. The other members present
were—Messrs. J. Wilson, J. D. Carter, A. Pickup, I.
Harrison, D. Craig. J. Plaw, 3, Robertson, and Avison.
At the request of the Chairman, the secretary then read the
alterations which were proposed to be made in the scale of fees,
&c., and which, as so altered, will stand thus :