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scientific circles by his announcement that he 

 had discovered an elixir for which he claimed 

 the property of rejuvenating the system. The 

 elixir was a secret preparation, compounded of 

 extracts from the organs of living or freshly- 

 killed animals, and was introduced into the 

 circulation of the human subject by subcutane- 

 ous injection. Dr. Brown-Sequard gave an ac- 

 count of the effects produced by his elixir in a 

 pamphlet published in 1S90. By the medical 

 profession, however, his chief contribution to 

 science will probably be looked for in his works 

 on pathology rather than in the system of 

 therapeutics, to which he devoted the last years 

 of his life, and by pharmacists especially for his 

 work on the gland extracts. — Brit, and Col. 

 Drug., 1894, 376. 



NEW LITERATURE. 



Anatoniischer Atlas der Pharmakognosie iind 

 Nahrungsmittel. 3 Lieferung. 



Sevan, D., and Coflin, W. M. A.— A. manual 

 of practical hygiene, designated for sanitary 

 and health officers, practitioners and students 

 of medicine, with an introduction by H. A. 

 Hare. 



Bommeli, R., Die Pflanzenwelt. Das Wis- 

 senswertlieste aus dem Gebiete der allgemeiuen 

 und speciellen Botanik. 



Clark, C. H. Practical Methods in Micro- 

 scopy. 



Coblentz, Virgil. Manual of Practical Phar- 

 macy. 



We are pleased to make the announcement 

 that Dr. Coblentz, of our college, will have his 

 Manual of Practical Pharmacy out some time 

 this summer. He has been at work on this 

 during the past two years, but the interference 

 of other duties has compelled him to lay the 

 work aside several times. This book will be of 

 a very practical nature, embracing to a large 

 extent foreign pharmacy. The chapters on 

 prescriptions and dispensing promise to be very 

 exhaustive. What is understood under Inor- 

 ganic and Organic Pharmacy will not be in- 

 cluded, as the author intends in a year or so to 

 enlarge the scope of the work. 



Companion to the Latest Edition of the 

 British Pharmacopwia. By P. Squire. i6th 

 ed. Revised by P. W. Squire and A. H. 

 Squire. 



Dieterich, E. Neues Pharmaceutisches Man- 

 ual. Unter Beihulfe v. E. Bosetti. 6 Aufi. I. 

 Lieferung. 



Dispensatory of the United States. By H. C. 

 Wood, J. P. Remington and S. P. Sadtler. 



The seventeenth edition of the United States 

 Dispensatory, revised in accordance with the 

 Pharmacopoeia, is a most excellent commentary 

 and with some exceptions contains all that is 

 recent in pharmaceutical research, and as an 

 aid to physicians and pharmacists will prove 

 invaluable. A new index, termed Index of 

 Diseases, immediately precedes the main text 

 at the beginning of the book. It has been so 

 placed in order to prevent any hurried consul- 

 tation and possible confusion with the general 

 index. This is another indication of the en- 

 deavor of the editors to make it a practical 

 work, as all those who consult works of a similar 

 character in which two indices are present, 

 frequently meet with a hindrance in hasty 

 r-eference. 



Another notable feature is that in increasing 

 the size of the book a recognition of the ordin- 

 ary book shelf as found in most stores is con- 

 sidered in that, the increase has been almost en- 

 tirely in the width of the page. Also in Section 

 II, Part II, there is an increase of twenty-five 

 per cent, of articles beyond the corresponding 

 section of the last edition, and the double column 

 has been employed to prevent the lines from 

 becoming too long for the eye easily to follow. 



The botanical nomenclature is not in accord- 

 ance with the more recent views. Of cou-se, in 

 the most radical changes this may be admiss- 

 able, but in other cases this is questionable. The 

 specific names given with reference to the 

 localities in which the plants are found being 

 frequently spelt with a capital, see; Rosa gallica, 

 Sanguinaria canadensis, Hagenia abyssinica, 

 Menispermum canadense and many others. 



The article on Cinchona has been largely re- 

 written, based upon elaborate original studies 

 made by Dr. H. H. Rusby, in South America 

 and in London trade centres. The article on 

 opium has been partly rewritten. Under Con- 

 volvulus panduratus no mention is made of 

 work of Kromer in finding a glucoside different 

 from those of other Convolvulacea {Pharm. 

 Jour. Trans.) The work of Kiliani on Digitalis 

 is given. Also an illustration of the epidermis 

 of lower side of digitalis leaf. Illustrations of 

 the trichomes of some of the Solunacea are also 

 given. The recent work of A. E. Vogel (Ana- 

 tomischer Atlas zur Pharmakognosie), and J. 

 Moeller (Pharmakognostischer Atlas) show that 

 it is in the surface characters of these narcotic 

 and other leaves that the most important 

 methods of identification are to be secured. Un- 



