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pend of the various branches ot materia medica and thera¬ 
peutics, collected and arranged in subdivisions which treat 
severally of the associated topics, under an arrangement and 
in a manner which facilitates the study of the whole, while it 
sufficiently particularizes and accents the distinctive features 
of each department. The physiological action of drugs the 
special therapeutics of disease, officinal and practical phar¬ 
macy, and directions for prescription-writing, are systematic¬ 
ally treated in a manner which cannot fail to make an accom¬ 
plished pharmacopolist of any one willing to study and ca¬ 
pable of assimilating knowledge. 
Some generalities pertaining to the subjects of materia 
medica, pharmacy, therapeutics, and the administration o 
medicine, are followed by a classified arrangement of drugs, 
in alphabetical order, considered with reference to their 
effects upon the several organs, regions and apparatus ot t e 
b0< This is comprised in Part I., and is followed, again, in 
Part II. by a treatise on pharmacy and the art of prescrip- 
tion-writing. 
In Part III., under the head of special therapeutics, we 
have a presentation of the subject of the general indications 
of drugs in special diseases, and this is enriched with a collec¬ 
tion of prescriptions—perhaps the most valuable portion of the 
book. In reference to this it may be said that no pharmacist, 
and certainly no practitioner, can go amiss in hoarding pre- 
scriptkms <3 a tested and pract.cal character. They are 
actual wealth to a man in busy practice, and • may save him 
from many an anxious cogitation. No man can always re- 
member. 
An Appendix is added, in which sundry other matters are 
treated which do not exactly “ fit ” the body of the book. 
This hand-book forms a neat volume of some 700 pages, 
well printed, with a good solid binding, and cannot but be a 
valuable addition to the library of the practitioner of medicine 
and the student of therapeutics, whether in human medicine 
or in the veterinarian ranks. 
