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ticular, a complete and trustworthy guide 

 both for ready reference and for study. In 

 this connection we hope that it may prove 

 an effectual impetus to, and become largely 

 instrumental in, the better, more correct, 

 and more thorough study of pharmacology 

 so much needed by pharmacists, druggists, 

 and physicians, and at the pharmaceutical 

 aud medical schools of our country. 



The publisher deserves due credit for the 

 good style in which the book has been 

 brought out. If shortcomings in this re- 

 spect can be pointed out, they consist main- 

 ly in the comparative inferiority of quite a 

 number of the woodcuts. While a few of 

 them as, for instance, on pages 314, 645, 

 866, and 1161 are equal to the excellent 

 illustrations of the corresponding standard 

 works of the French, and in particular of 

 the German literature, others are less satis- 

 factory, and in not a few cases inadequate 

 to such an elaborate work and to the pres- 

 ent state of xylography. Future editions 

 can remedy this want, and in this respect 

 enhance the value of the work by a liberal 

 addition of pharmacognostical illustrations. 



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