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Photography. 



Die Reproductions Photographic . — ^J. Husnik. 

 ■7., Aufl. Wieu: A. Hartleben. 



La chiniica fotografica. — R. Namias. Fasc. 

 I. Modena: A. Namias. 



Photo- Micrography. — Henri Van Heurck. 

 Bnglish edition. Re-edited and augmented by 

 the author from the fourth French edition, and 

 translated by Wynne E. Baxter. Illustrations. 

 X/ondon: Crosby, Lock wood & Co. 



Physics. 



Lehrbuch der Expertmentalphysik. — A. Wiill- 

 ner. I. Band. 5, Aufl. (x, 1,000 S. m. 321 

 Albbild.) Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 



This volume treats of general physics and 

 acoustics. 



Lehrbuch der Physik fiir Gymnasien, Real- 

 gymnasien, Oberrealschulenundandere hohere 

 Bildungs-Anstalten. — ^J. Heussi. 6 te. Aufl. 

 neubearbeitet von A. Leiber. Braunschweig; 

 O. Salle. 



Light : A Course of Experimental Optics 

 Chiefly with the Lantern. — L. Wright. New 

 cheaper edition. Revised and enlarged. New 

 "York: Macmillan & Co. 



Physiology. 



Laboratory Manual of Elementary Phy si- 

 nology and Urine Analysis. — ^John H. Long. 

 Chicago: E. H. Colegrove & Co. Pp. 366. 



Therapeutics. 

 Physiological Action of Nitrites of the Par- 

 affin Series. — ^J. Theodore Cash and W. R. 

 Dunstan. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, 

 ITriibner & Co. Pp. 135. 



The authors endeavor to throw further light 

 on the mode of action of the paraffin nitrites 

 when introduced into the animal organism, 

 and observations were made regarding the ac- 

 tion of the following eleven nitrites in a pure 

 state on blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and 

 stirated muscular fibre: 



Methyl nitrite, ethyl nitrite, primary propyl 

 nitrite, secondary propyl nitrite, primary butyl 

 nitrite, secondary butyl nitrite, iso primary 

 butyl nitrite, alpha-iso-primary amyl nitrite, 

 "beta-iso primary amyl nitrite and tertiary amyl 

 nitrite. 



Certain of these nitrites were prepared for 

 the first time, and some of those previously 

 described were found to possess jdiflferent phy- 

 sical properties to those usually ascribed to 

 them. The selection made rendered it possible 



to compose the action of a series of substances 

 containing an atom of nitronyl, NOo, united 

 respectively with CH3, C.Hj. C3H,, C4H9, 

 and CgHj^, and to determine the modifying 

 influence exerted by these radicals upon the 

 characteristic action of nitronyl. An abstract 2.^- 

 ■pQdirs in Pharm. Jour. Trans., 1894, 313. When 

 the effects of primaiy, secondar}^ and tertiary 

 nitrites, alike in composition, were compared, 

 it was found that the secondar}' compound had 

 a more powerful influence generally than the 

 primary and the tertiary than the secondary. 

 The more marked effect of the nitrites and the 

 largest molecules, but containing least nitronyl 

 is supposed to be due to their decreased chem- 

 ical stability; and the greater power of second- 

 ary as compared with primary and of tertiary 

 as compared with secondary nitrites, is attri- 

 buted to their respectively greater instability 

 rather than to the number of methyl groups 

 attached to the carbon combination of the 

 nitronyl group 



LITERATURE. 



■pharmacopceias in the s. a. d. sheppard 

 library of the massachusetts coi^lege 

 of pharmacy. •■ 



United States. 



Pharmacopczia of the United States of Amer- 

 ica. By the authority of the medical societies 

 and colleges. Boston, 1820. 



The same. 2. ed. Boston. 1828. 



The same. 2. ed. New York, 1830. 



The same. By authority of the National 

 Medical Convention, held at Washington, 1830. 

 Philadelphia, 1831. 



The same. By authority of the National 

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The same. By authority of the • National 

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The same. 4th decennial revision. By 

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The same. 5th decennial revision. By 

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The same. 6th decennial revision. By 



*We are desirous of placing: on record in The Alumni 

 Journal, from time to time important and valuable 

 works of reference that may be obtained in any part of 

 the United States. Our readers are doubtless familiar 

 with the Library of the College of Pharmacy ot the city 

 of New York in which alone is contained 127 Pharmaco- 

 Voeias. — [Editor.] 



