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Dunstan Times, Issue 539, 16 August 1872, Page 2

The folio-wine will be read with interest by chemists and druggists .—ln the case of the drugeest Andrews, recently prosecuted by the Shropshire Ethical Branch for undue assumption of a nodical title, the County Court judge has given the important decision that, having prescribed his medicines, he cannot recover for them. “When* chemist,” said the judge, “takes upon himself to prescril>c, he invades the province of a medical practitioner, and he has said that he prescribed them." In answer to a remark made by Andrews’s legal adviser, that a man may come into a. shop anil order » bottle of sarsaparilla, the judge said—“ That may be ; but if the doctor, or would-be doctor, prescribes it, it is fatal to his recovering for it There is a difference between supplying it and prescribing it.” The plaintiff was held to have vitiated all claim to payment for the medicines which he bad supplied in consequence of having prescribed them. Judgment was consequently given for the defendant with costs. A Victorian paper says:—“A lay reader of the Church of England, in a district jnsfc outside Melbourne, astonished his parishioners recently by hoiitin; ajkig at his houifl and displaying a leg of mutton and a b>af of bread on his gate pasts It seem that the rev. gentlemen is hard pre shl fer money, his parishioners owing him 150 ; , and baker and butcher are pressing him.”