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work, as in the attachment of muscles, regional and surface anatomy, etc., but 

 its chief excellence lies in what is omitted. It is not a manual, and will not 

 take the place of such works for the surgeon, but it is a text-book par excellence, 

 and, in the opinion of the writer the best English text-book for medical students 

 that has ever been written. That is all the commendation it needs, s. w. w. 



The New United States Dispensatory (18th ed.) Edited, revised and re- 

 written by H. C. Wood, M. D., LL. D., Joseph P. Remington, Ph. M., F. C. S., 

 F. L. S., Samuel P. Sadtler, Ph. D., F. C. S. Thoroughly revised, with com- 

 ments on the new British Pharmacopoeia, and including the vast number of new 

 Bynthetic remedies and the latest additions in materia medica, therapeutics, and 

 pharmacy; 2045 pages: J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. 



The progress of medicine and pharmacy within the past few years has been 

 such as to make the appearance of the revised edition of this standard authority 

 in medicine one of great interest not only to physician and pharmacist but to 

 students in many departments of service. From the very first ( 1833) the United 

 States Dispensatory has, by mutual consent, been regarded as the highest au- 

 thority and the most valuable commentary upon the pharmacopoeias of the world. 

 Id this particular it has not to this day lost its supremacy. It is with no little 

 interest, therefore, that we glanced through its pages to see what influence the 

 chemical laboratory had made upon medical science. It is well known that our 

 materia medica has been expanded and possibly enriched by the introduction of 

 what are known as new remedies — mainly the products of the German laboratories. 

 The vast increase of synthetical remedial agents and the appearance of the new 

 British Pharmacopoeia has evidently made the editorial work in this new edition 

 an enormous task. The work has been done in the same excellent manner which 

 characterizes all of the work of Professors Wood, Remington, and Sadtler, each 

 a recognized authority in his special department. The one point of criticism the 

 reviewer of the work is inclined to make, which, however, in no way applies to 

 the work of the authors, relates to this process of "expansion." Our materia 

 medica is becoming too heavily burdened with material. A process of elimina- 

 tion must soon take place. We should soon commence to contract — to sift the 

 wheat from the chaff. This will be one of the principal tasks of the next com- 

 mittee of revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia. Overburdened as the 

 United States Dispensatory is with much of this chaff, we would say that those 

 who would keep abreast of the time in all that pertains to medicine cannot 

 afford to be without this encyclopedia of pharmacy, chemistry, materia medica, 

 and therapeutics. l- e. sayee. 



Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy; 700 pages: P. Blakiston's 

 Son & Co., Philadelphia. 



Among the books which have reflected credit on the University of Kansas, we 

 note with pleasure the appearance of a second edition of this work. 



The work under consideration is an introduction to the study of the vegetable 

 kingdom and the vegetable and animal drugs, comprising the botanical and 

 physical characteristics, source, constituents, and pharmacopoeial preparations, 

 including a chapter relating to the insects injurious to drugs, by Lucius E. Sayre, 

 B.S., Ph. M., dean of the school of pharmacy and professor of materia medica 

 and pharmacy in the University of Kansas, member of the committee of revision 

 of the United States Pharmacopoeia ; with histology and microtechnique, by 

 William C. Stevens, M. S., professor of botany in the University of Kansas. 



The book has been thoroughly revised and in the greater part rewritten, and 



