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it being somewhat doubtful whether certain passages are not still 

 French ; and we observe in this article, as well as in many other parts 

 of the Number, the use of ' would ' for 'should ', for which the editor's 

 countrymen are remarkable, but which certainly should not have ap- 

 peared in a scientific journal. Mr, Ferguson's " Observations on the 

 Preparation of Soap Cerate" will probably be useful to the operator 

 in pharmaceutical chemistry. 



Among the works reviewed in the Bibliographic Notices we find only 

 two of a scientific nature, viz., the second edition of Dr. Christison's 

 Treatise on Poisons ; and Dr. Daubeny's Introduction to the Atomic 

 Theory. The notice of the former shows the reviewer to possess con- 

 siderable acquaintance with the subject, and to have devoted proper 

 attention to the work itself. In the notice of Dr. Daubeny's work, 

 however, we regret to see Dr. Prout's important views respecting 

 merorganization, termed, in derision, " the merorganized lucubrations 

 of Dr. Prout"j and when the reviewer observes, controverting the 

 opinions of that chemist, that " it is impossible to account for the dif- 

 ference of properties, between organized substances, by the existence 

 of a mere trace of inorganic matter, particularly as in most of those 

 cases, it is proved by the labours of our best analysts, that no inorganic 

 matter exists," he makes an assertion, in the words he has himself 

 given in italics, which is not only at variance with facts, but indicates, 

 we apprehend, but imperfect comprehension of this particular subject. 

 At the end of this notice too are some further allusions to Dr. Prout 

 and his views in a strain rather indecorous : — has all this any con- 

 nexion with the analyses of diabetic urine, and their alleged contra- 

 riety to Dr. Prout's conclusions regarding the chemical pathology of 

 that disease ? 



The Scientific Intelligence is arranged under the following heads : 

 Chemical Science, Physical Science, Botany and Natural History, 

 Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology and Therapeutics, Surgery, Legal 

 Medicine and Toxicology, Materia Medica and Pharmacy. It appears 

 to be well selected, and this department of the Journal is altogether 

 satisfactory, and very suitable to the main design of the work. — Upon 

 the whole we think that " The Dublin Journal of Medical and Che- 

 mical Science " deserves to succeed, and we hope it will ; but we 

 must strongly recommend to the writers of chemical papers for it, 

 greater circumspection in drawing conclusions from their own experi- 

 ments, as well as from those of other inquirers ; and, to the editor, 

 more strict attention in future to the correctness of the typography. 

 Since the above was written the second Number of the Dublin Journal 

 has appeared. We have looked over it, but do not find anything that 

 demands animadversion, except that the chemical notices from the 

 Journal de Pharmacie and Annates de Chimie in the " Scientific Intel- 

 ligence", headed, respectively, Thenard on Bisulphide of Hydrogen, 

 Decomposition of Alcohol by Chlorine, andDumason Chlorine [it should 

 be Chloric] Ether, are all copied, verbatim, but without acknowledge- 

 ment, from our Magazine for April 3 the headings being slightly al- 

 tered, as if to prevent recognition. This ought not to have been. 



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