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Part II. of this valuable work has recently been put before us. It 
affords the same evidence of careful study as was exhibited by its 
predecessor, and it shows that the three joint authors have endea- 
voured to fill a gap that has long existed. We do not mean merely 
that such a book as this has long been needed, but that the native 
pharmacopeia has been too long neglected. : : . The 
arrangement of the work before us is convenient for easy reference, 
and it seems certain that the work will be found one of great value 
to every practitioner in this country. Elsewhere also it might = 
found extremely useful.—Madras Times. 
The ‘* Pharmacographia Indica” is, however, not valuable merely 
to those residing in India and to merchants importing Indian drugs, 
but also to students of materia medica in this country, since the 
information on a large number of the drugs used in Europe is 
brought more closely up to date than in almost any other work on 
Materia Medica. ‘ é . The chemical-work that has been 
done in India, although in many cases not carried to a definite 
conclusion, consisting rather of proximate analyses, is of great value 
for future reference, since the exact modes of treating the various 
drugs, and the solvents used are always stated. The physiological 
action is in many instances described, and the reputation of the 
drug among the natives confirmed, or contradicted, as the case may 
be. There is thus placed before Western nations a repertory of 
materia medica, replete with valuable, because practical information, — : 
from which the searcher for new remedies may cull many promising 
article.—  . ‘ - Dr. Dymock and his colleagues may be 
heartily congratulated on having brought to sucha pitch of perfection 
this useful work, which it may confidently be predicted will take 
as high a place in the pharmaceutical literature of the Hast as its 
namesake has in that of the West —Pharm. Journ., Aug. 9th, 1890. 
In regard to materia medica generally it must always hold a 
place as a book of reference, The favourable opinion ‘which on 
formed on the first part of the volume is enhanced by the uniformly 
good quality of the matter in this second one. We were at first 
disposed to think that this was a book which only specialists would 
have use for; but it grows so interesting, and is so full of valuable 
information, that we can recommend it to all pharmacists who have a 
love for books,—Chemist and Druggist, July 26th, 1890, 
