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BOOKS RECEIVED. 
A Dictionary of Practical Medicine. Comprising Special Pathology, the Principles 
of Therapeutics, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the 
Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to Races, to Sex, and to the Epochs of Life : 
with an Appendix of approved Formulas. The whole forming a digest of Pathology 
and Therapeutics. By James Copland, M.D., F.R.S., etc. etc. Abridged by the 
Author, assisted by James C. Copland, M.R.C.S., etc. London: Longmans, Green, 
and Co. Pp. 1537. 18G5. 
Report on the Physiological Action of Nitrite of Amyl. By Benjamin W. 
Richardson, M.A., M.D., etc. 
An Inquiry into the Possibility of Restoring the Life of Warm-blooded Ani¬ 
mals, in certain cases where the Respiration, the Circulation, and the ordinary mani¬ 
festations of Organic Motion are exhausted or have ceased. By Benjamin Ward 
Richardson, M.A., M.D., etc. (From the Author.) 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
W. B. A. —The Pharmaceutical Journal is not the proper medium for personal 
disputes. 
Student (Oxford).—The work will be published early in October. 
Tyro (Birmingham).—Fownes’s ‘Manual of Chemistry,’ Bentley’s ‘Manual ot 
Botany.’ 
Student (Torquay).—The British Pharmacopoeia is now alone used at the examina¬ 
tions of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
Inquirer (Dover).—The price is 55. It may be obtained through any bookseller. 
Multum in Parvo (Northampton).—We presume a bookseller would be best able to 
answer the questions submitted, or perhaps the publishers of this Journal, Messrs. 
Churchill and Sons. 
I arpos (London).—The author is thanked for his communication. 
A. N. P. (Bury St. Edmunds).— (1) The deposit from cod-liver oil consists of the 
stearine of the oil. (2) The deposit in essential oils is generally the result of oxidation 
caused by exposure to air and light. (3) The green oil used in veterinary medicine 
is made by boiling elder-leaves in olive oil. (4) We are unable to give the derivation 
of the term “ Opodeldoc;” it formerly signified a plaster for all external injuries. (5) 
The blackening caused by nitrate of silver is considered to be due to decomposition 
of organic matter, and reduction of the salt of silver. (6) Sulphate of zinc causes the 
separation of essential oils from solution in water; hence the phenomenon referred to 
in the question. 
J. C. T. (Horton).—(1) The question is not worded so as to admit of its being 
answered. (2) There is no authorized formula. (3) See Yol. I. p. 451. (4) SeeYol. 
YIII. p. 202. (5) Not for merely experimental purposes. (6) We know of none. 
Inquirer (Evesham).—The sale of cocoa or chocolate is liable to the duty. 
A Correspondent (Preston) wishes to caution chemists against selling methylated 
spirit without a licence. 
J. M. (Crediton).—Glycerine and lime-juice—Yol. VI., Second Series, p. 6G8. 
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