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morning as a slight purgative. The urine acquired a peculiar odour, reminding one 
somewhat of the drug, but no increase in the secretion of urine could be noticed. 
Case No. 2.—Sixty grains were taken in two doses, at an interval of three hours. 
This acted as in the preceding case, but was accompanied by a considerable increase of 
urine. 
Case No. 3.—One hundred grains were given in five doses, at intervals of two hours. 
This did not operate on the bowels, but produced a considerable increase in the secretion 
of urine, accompanied by a slight burning sensation during the passage, which passed 
off with the effect of the medicine. 
Case No. 4.—Two drachms were taken in six doses, at intervals of two hours. 
This caused no increase in the secretion of urine, but, acting as an irritant, produced 
very decided irritation during the passage of urine, together with a very considerable 
increase of heat over the body. 
From these experiments, though they are, perhaps, too few to settle the points 
definitely, it would appear,— 
1st. That the diuretic properties of cubeb reside in the soft resin. 
2nd. That cubebiri, as compared with the other constituents of cubeb, is inert. 
3rd. That the volatile oil acts as a carminative and stimulant, producing, in large 
doses, the unpleasant effects produced by other volatile oils having similar properties.— 
American Journal of Pharmacy. 
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Neligan’s Medicines, their Uses and Mode of Administration. By Rawdon Macna- 
mara, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians; Licentiate, Fellow, Member of 
Council, and Professor of Materia Medica, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ; 
Surgeon to the Meath Hospital, etc. etc. Including a Complete Conspectus of the 
British Pharmacopoeia, an Account of New Remedies, and an Appendix of Formulae. 
Seventh Edition. Dublin: Fannin and Co., Grafton Street. 1868. Pp. 934. 
The approaching Summer Session, when the subject of Materia Medica and Therapeu¬ 
tics will form an important part of the teaching in our medical schools, reminds us that 
the present time is a very suitable one to call attention to the new edition of ‘ Neligan’s 
Medicines’ by Rawdon Macnamara. The first edition of Dr. Neligan’s now well-known 
and appreciated work w r as published about twenty years since, and no less than four sub¬ 
sequent editions were afterwards brought out by its accomplished author. On the appear¬ 
ance of the British Pharmacopoeia, in 1864, a new edition being called for, and the failing 
health of Dr. Neligan having compelled him to relinquish all literary work, the prepara¬ 
tion of the sixth edition was entrusted to Dr. Macnamara, who made great alterations in 
the original work, and enlarged it by the addition of 150 pages. The new edition of the 
British Pharmacopoeia of 1867 rendering necessary still further modifications and addi¬ 
tions, the present—the seventh—edition has been prepared, in which we can trace but 
comparatively little of the original work by Neligan, for the whole volume has been so 
modified and extended that it might with more justice and correctness be now 
termed ‘ Maenamara’s Medicines,’ rather than‘Neligan’s Medicines,’ by Macnamara; 
and in the next edition, which will doubtless be soon required, it might be as well for 
the real author to accept all the responsibilities attending its production by adopting it 
entirely as his own work. The present edition forms a handsome volume of 934 pages. 
It is printed on good paper, and in clear and readable type, and its appearance alto¬ 
gether does credit to its enterprising publishers. 
The arrangement adopted in the body of the work is a therapeutical one, the various 
medicines being treated of in twenty chapters, under the heads of Antacids, Anthelmin¬ 
tics, Antispasmodics, Astringents, Cathartics, Caustics, Diaphoretics, Diuretics, Emetics, 
Emmenagogues, Emollients, Epispastics, Expectorants, Narcotics, Refrigerants, Seda¬ 
tives or Contra-Stimulants, Sialogogues, General Stimulants, Special Stimulants, and 
Tonics. To these are added two chapters, on Waters and Supplementary Agents ; 
and three appendices, the first containing a carefully-compiled Posological Table; the 
second comprises Formulae, which will be found most useful to the prescriber; and the 
third is taken up with a Classification of the Chief Plants used in Medicine, together 
