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THE MICROSCOPE. 



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 PVBLI CAT IONS 



The Pha7'7nacology of the Newer Materia Medica. Embrac- 

 ing the Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics of 

 New Remedies ; in 15 monthly parts; subscription price 

 $3.00; single parts 25 cents. 8vo. pp. 1307. Detroit: 

 Geo. S. Davis. 



The object of this publication is to collect accounts of those new 

 remedies that have been so rapidly introduced within the last few 

 years, and to embody them into one comprehensive whole. The 

 work contains reports of special botanists, results of physiological 

 researches, and descriptions of pharmaceutical preparations. The 

 botanical portion is especially valuable, as the descriptions are 

 full, with, in many cases, illustrations of the plant and its parts, 

 with further illustrations of its microscopical structure. Although 

 the reports of clinical properties are in many instances founded 

 on but one or two observations, and should for this reason be re- 

 ceived as still sub judice^ with only some probability of value, 

 the work contains much information gleaned from the medical 

 and therapeutical journals, and presents it to the practitioner in a 

 condensed and convenient shape. 



The treatment of its subjects is usually thorough, as far, at least, 

 as its authorities enable it to be. A good example of this is to be 

 found in its consideration of Coca, which includes synon3^ms, 

 portion employed, natural order, habitat, properties, active prin- 

 ciples, botanical descrijDtion, history, production, cultivation, 

 Coca at home and abroad, chemical composition, notes on the 

 alkaloids, adulterations and substitutions, with general and clin- 

 ical reports of therapeutic properties, and a complete literature of 

 Cocana, covering 151 pages. The work has four extensive in- 

 dexes, and although many of its clinical reports are doubtless 

 too deeply rose-colored, it should not be neglected nor overlooked 

 by those that desire to keep themselves informed as to the recent 

 amazing progress of therapeutics and of the Materia Medica. 



