THE PHARMACY BILL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 4, 4 July 1895, Page 3

THE PHARMACY BILL.

♦ TO THB IDITOB. Sib— ln view of the Pharmacy Bill now before the House, would you permit me to to say that it is] quite time that a measure sufficiently stringent for the protection of the publio should be placed on the Statute Book. Ihe abuses perpetrated by sham mediome vendors call loudly for rodres-. The poor and uneduoited, in most onsen, read these delusive oiroulars and advertisements, whioh are freely circulated amongst them, and become an easy proy. The result 18 that the money that should go to provide luxuries for the siok is spent on the veriest shams. Jußt fancy the usual appeal to the sick and ailing, whose case is perhaps pronounced hopeleas by competent authority — '" When doctors fail try the wonder-working remedies < f Mr. " Tidley Wink-." " lait-not a crying shame that no protection is provided for th" credulous against these scheming and unscrupulous parasites, who, although entirely ignorant us to the use or abuse of dangerous medicines, insist upon plying their pernicious trado to the detriment of the sick and ailing ? Some time ago a ge: erol analysis of the leading patent medicines was carried out in London by I'rofesaor t-tokes, the Public Analyißt, aud the results were published in a paper called Hygeine. This was done for the enlightenment and protection of the pnblio, aud the resulta would astonish any one who reads them. I have a copy of tbese analyEes in my possession, and shall be pleased to show them to anyone, or for publication. Now, if a proper Pharmacy Bill is placed on tho Statute Book the publio can at least feel certain that they aro in the hands of men who have the necessary education toenabletuem with safety to handle dangerous medicaments; and iießiues, is it fair or just the educated chemist should be placed in competition with the grocer, or the sham who has perhaps graduated from a coal yard or publio hostelry? Surely the pnblic good and safety call loudly for reform in these abuses. Hoping that you will try and find space for this, lam, &c, Chemist.