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UTILLE (ALFRED], M.D, LL.D., and JlfAISCH (JOHN J/.), Ph./>.. 



O Prof of Theon/ ami Practice <>f Medicine -"-*- Prof, of Mat. Med. and Rot in Phil a. 



and of Clinical Med. in Univ. of Pa. Coll. Pharmacy, Secy, to the American 



Pharmaceutical Association. 



THE NATIONAL DISPENSATORY : Containing the Natural History, 



Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in 

 the Pharmacopoeias of the United States and Great Britain. In one very handsome 

 octavo volume of 1628 paees, with over 200 illustrations. Extra cloth, $6 75 ; leather, 

 raided bands, $7 50. (Now Ready ) 



EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. 



" In the rapid progress of modern research, few subjects have of late years received greater acces- 

 sions of facts than the group of sciences connected with materia mediea and therapeutics. The 

 new resources thus placed at the command of the pharmaceutist and physician have seemed to the 

 authors to justify an attempt to make, from the advanced stand-point of the present day, a concise 

 but complete statement of all that is of practical importance to both professions a digest in which 

 that which is old and that which is new shall be so brought together as to give to the reader, within 

 the most moderate practicable compass, all the details in pharmacology, pharmacy, and thera- 

 peutics, which he is likely to need in his daily avocations. In the almost infinite accumulation of 

 material, this has required a careful and conscientious sifting to discard that which is obsolete, 

 untrustworthy, or comparatively trivial, without impairing the practical completeness of the 

 work. That they have wholly accomplished their object the authors do not venture to claim ; but 

 they can say that years of constant labor have been devoted to the task of producing a work to 

 which the inquirer may refer with the certainty of finding everything which experience has stored 

 up as worthy of confidence in the subjects embraced within its scope." 



We intend to draw the attention of our brother I the preface, and now that it has been published and 

 pharmacists to this publication, which cannot fail ! opens to us its vast stores of information, we may 

 to exercise a widespread and in u ked influence upon add that it was almost a necessity ; and this we say 

 the discharge of the duties of their vocation. 'I he ; without meaning to impugn the great excellence of 

 material embodied in the work is truly immense, the works of similar character Tt hich have preceded 

 as shown alone by the almost countless number tf I it. All of the descriptions, whether medical, botau- 

 subjects treated. We congratulate the authors upon j ical, or pharmaceutical, are clear, in good English, 

 their success in having brought to a close a work i and unencumbered witli obsolete and unintelligible 

 which must inevitably take its place as one of the 

 most important con' ri buttons to medical and phar- 

 maceutical literature. Am. Journ. of Pharm, 

 May, 1879. 



The association of such distinguished authors as 

 Professors Still6and Maisch in the composition of a 

 work of this character has excited the strongest in- 

 terest and the highest expectati. us in the ruiud of 

 every physician and pharmacist in the country. 

 For once we can truly say that the promise of ex- 

 cellence ha i been fulfilled to the letter, and the Na- 

 tional Dispensatory has come almost perfect from 

 the hands of its makers. The entire work is a most 

 excellent one and cannot fail to satisfy the pur- 

 chaser. We can conscientious y recommend it to 

 every student and practitioner of medicine and 

 pharmacy. St. Louis Clinical Record, Apr 1879. 



This magnificent work has at last arrived, and 

 we are at a loss for words to express our apprecia- 

 tion and to give our readers an idea of it The sub- 

 jest-matter is brought to date, showing that it has 

 been the unceasing aim of the authors to supply 



terms. Those portions which have reference to 

 therapeutics form a convenient treatise on that sub- 

 ject, and are made the more valuable and available 

 by a complete therapeutical index. The purely 

 pharmacal part is as perfect as it is possible to make 

 it, and less could not have been expected when we 

 consider Prof. Maisch V great qualifications for work 

 of that kind. N. Med. Journ., March, 1879. 



The therapeutic part is as rich as would be ex- 

 pected of the author of the most comprehensive work 

 on the pubject in our language. The physiological 

 effects of drugs receive due attention, and their in- 

 fluence over disease is stated succinctly. For the 

 task of winnowing the immense accumulation of 

 periodical literature, the experience and matured 

 judgment of Prof. Stille were emiuen ! ly fitted. No 

 pharmacist or doctor will repent the purchase of a 

 book which is at once a treasury of facts and the 

 digest of a decision of a high court. -Louisville Med. 

 News, March 29, 1879. 



The pharmaceutical world has for a long time 

 - - - been ou the quivive, in expectation of the forthcom- 



much needed book, one that will contain all the im- j j n ., Dispensatory by Profs. Sti)16 and Maisch, who 

 portant facts, and not dwell upon points that are of have acquired such a reputation in their respective 

 comparatively little interest to any but a specially Departments that nothing but a satisfactory work 

 interested student While this work, ou account of i C()U id be expected ; this expectation has been quite 



its conciseness, is adapted to the pharmacal student, 

 it is equally adapted to the medical student and 

 practitioner by its well arranged therapeutical in- 

 dex containingabout 3750 references, while the ma- 

 teria medica index embraces about 10 400. The 

 physician sees at a glance all medicines that; are 

 used for any certain class of disease. Chicago Phar- 

 macist and Chemidt, April, 1879. 



The present Dispensatory is arranged in alpha- 

 betical order from the commencement, the recent 

 hdvances in chemistry are mentioned, and an effort 

 made to include the late novelties in the review of 

 the resources of the physician. This is carried out 

 with that sound conservative judgment which cha- 

 racterizes all Prof. Stillo's work. The chemical 

 and pharmaceutical sections have, we may suppose, 

 received the especial care of Prof. Maisch; and as 

 he is facile prlne.ps in that branch, nothing can be 

 said of them except in praise. Med. and Surg. Re- 

 porter April 3, 1879. 



It has been prepared by two gentlemen whose 

 learning fully qualified them for the difficult task, 

 and wh.ise eminence entitles them to be heard with 



realized. We have examined the work with some 

 care, and are very much pleased that we can pro- 

 nounce it to be reliable, comprehensive, and includ- 

 ing the latest researches available to its authors. 

 This is more particularly true as regards the portion 

 devoted to pharmaceutical subjects. We are fully 

 justified in stating that it is, taken altogether, one 

 of the most important and creditable publications 

 which have of late been issued by the American 

 press. It will be an indispensable reference book 

 both for the pharmacist and the physician. Stw 

 Remedies, April, 1879. 



A careful examination of the work calls forth un- 

 qualified praise for its excellent arrangement, full 

 yet concise information, its careful adherence to the 

 best authority on each particular topic, as well as 

 the entire elimination of all unnecessary and obso- 

 lete data and particulars. The 'arrangement of all 

 topics is purely alphabetical, and with surprising 

 fidelity to the wants both of th^physicia u and phar- 

 maceutist. New remedies which have come into 

 recent use are here found noticed, with such facts 

 as have been collated from careful investigation. 



the respect and attention due to authority. The ; Druggists' 1 Circular and Chtmical Gazette, March, 



"raisou d'etre" of the book is modestly stated in > } 1S79. 



