12 HENRY C. LEA'S SON & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Mat. Med., Therap. 



STILLE, A., M. &., LL. D., & MAISCH, J. M., Phar.D., 



Professor Emeritus of the Theory and Prac- Prof, of Mat. Med. and Botany in Phila. 



tice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine College, of Pharmacy, Sec'y to the Amerir 



in the University of Pennsylvania. can Pharmaceutical Association. 



The National Dispensatory : Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Phar- 

 macy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in the Pharmacopoeias of 

 the United States, Great Britain and Germany, with numerous references to the French 

 Codex. Third edition, thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged. In one magnificent 

 imperial octavo volume of 1776 pages, with 311 fine engravings. Cloth, $7.25; 

 leather, $8.00 ; half Kussia, open back, $9.00. With Dennison's " Ready Reference Index " 

 $1.00 in addition to price in any of above styles of binding. Just ready. 



When THE NATIONAL DISPENSATORY first appeared in 1879 it was hailed as supplying 

 a want that had long been felt in both the Medical and Pharmaceutical Professions. Its 

 accuracy, its fulness, its conciseness, the happy manner in which, while omitting all that 

 was obsolete or merely curious, it gave all the information that the practitioner or drug- 

 gist could desire, not only with regard to the selection, preparation and compounding of 

 drugs, but their physiological effects, their therapeutical use and their clinical value, gave 

 it at once an unapproached position as a standard work and an indispensable book of 

 reference. 



In the present revision the authors have labored incessantly with the view of making 

 the third edition an even more complete representative of the science of 1884 than its 

 first edition was of that of 1879. For this, ample material has been afforded not only by 

 the new United States Pharmacopoeia, but by those of Germany and France, Avhich have 

 recently appeared and been incorporated in it, besides a large number of new non-officinal 

 remedies. It is thus rendered the representative of the most advanced state of American, 

 English, French and German pharmacology and therapeutics. The vast amount of new 

 and important material thus introduced may be gathered from the fact that the additions 

 to this edition amount in themselves to the matter of an ordinary full-sized octavo volume, 

 rendering the work larger by twenty-five per cent, than the last edition. The Therapeu- 

 tic Index, so suggestive and convenient to the practitioner, contains 1600 more references 

 than the last edition the general index 3700 more, while the list of illustrations has 

 been increased by 80. 



Yet these facts inadequately represent the amount of labor bestowed on the revision, 

 for it has not simply consisted in making additions. The effort has been to prevent 

 undue increase of the volume in bulk by having in it nothing that could be regarded 

 as superfluous, yet care has been taken that nothing should be omitted which a member 

 of either profession could expect to find in it. 



The appearance of the work has been delayed by nearly a year in consequence of the 

 determination of the authors that it should attain as near an approach to absolute ac- 

 curacy as is humanly possible. With this view an elaborate and laborious series of 

 examinations and tests have been made to verify or correct the statements of the Pharma- 

 copoeia, and very numerous corrections have been found necessary. It has thus been ren- 

 dered indispensable to all who consult the Pharmacopoeia. 



The work is therefore presented in the full expectation that it will maintain the 

 position universally accorded to it' as the standard authority in all matters pertaining to 

 its subject, as registering the furthest advance of the science of the day, and as embody- 

 ing in a shape for convenient reference the recorded results of human experience in the 

 laboratory, in the dispensing room, and at the bed-side. 



FARQUHARSON, 1ROBERT, M. D., 



Lecturer on Materia Medico, at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. 



A Guide to Therapeutics and Materia Medica. Third American edition, 

 specially revised by the Author. Enlarged and adapted to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia by 

 FRANK WOODBTJRY, M. D. In one handsome 12mo. volume of 524 pages. Cloth, $2.25. 

 Dr. Farquharson's Therapeutics is constructed I umned pages one side containing the recognized 

 upon a plan which brings before the reader all the | physiological action of the medicine, and the other 



essential points with reference to the properties of i the disease in which observers (who are nearly al- 

 drugs. It impresses these upon him in such a way i ways mentioned) have obtained from it good re- 

 as to enable him to take a clear view of the actions suits make a very good arrangement. The early 



of medicines and the disordered conditions 

 which they must prove useful. The double-col- 



chapter containing rules for prescribing is excel- 

 lent. Canada Med. and Surg. Journal, Dec. 1882. 



STILLE, ALFRED, M. D., LL. D., 



Professor of Theory and Practice of Med. and of Clinical Med. in the Univ. of Penna. 

 Therapeutics and Materia Medica. A Systematic Treatise on the Action and 

 Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History. Fourth edition, 

 revised and enlarged. In two large and handsome octavo volumes, containing 1936 pages. 

 Cloth, $10.00; leather, $12.00; very handsome half Russia, raised bands, $13.00. 



We can hardly admit that it has a rival in the 

 multitude of its citations and the fulness of its 

 research into clinical histories, and we must assign 

 it a place in the physician's library; not, indeed, 

 as fully representing the present state of knowledge 



in pharmacodynamics, but as by far the most com- 

 plete treatise upon the clinical and practical side 

 of the question. Boston Medical and Surgical Jour- 

 nal, Nov. 5, 1874. 



