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REVIEW. 
into accordance with the great advance made in the various 
branches during the last few years. 
One of the most noticeable features of this new edition is the 
adoption of a uniform type, and the restriction to their proper 
places and purposes of the perplexing varieties of type so ex¬ 
tensively used in the former editions. This change renders the 
reading of the work more pleasant and much less fatiguing, while 
the improvement in the appearance of the pages is very marked. 
We regret, however, to see that this has not been so uniformly 
effected in the first portion of the work as we would have desired, 
and is verv noticeable in the otherwise excellent articles on “ acetic 
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acid,” “ acetimetry,” and “ alcoholmetry.” We also notice that 
although the articles are in exact accordance with the most recent 
progress in chemistry, yet in a few cases discrepancies in nomen¬ 
clature occur, possibly, however, ascribable to the difficulties of 
reconciling the various systems adopted in the different phar¬ 
macopoeias. " 
The work contains, besides the chief preparations of the old 
colleges, all the additions and alterations in the British and 
foreign pharmacopoeias, including the recent ones of India and 
the United States, as well as the various veterinary medicines. 
We notice with satisfaction the curtailment of the long articles 
on the nature and treatment of the various diseases; the editor 
justly remarking, “ it was thought that those in former editions 
might in many cases be productive of more harm than benefit to 
those for whom such information was compiled, namely, emigrants 
and others not within the reach of the surgeon or physician/’ 
There is, however, a great addition to the useful medical informa¬ 
tion, more especially to the veterinary branch. 
The editor has been assisted in his labours by the co-operation 
of various gentlemen in those branches of technical subjects where 
such has been advisable. Bor instance, in those on duty-bearing 
and excisable articles, where it is of the greatest importance to 
have an authoritative treatment, all have passed under the re¬ 
vision of Mr. Harkness, of the Inland Bevenue. Other of 
the articles, as on “ brewing,” “ bread,” &c., are specimens of 
what cyclopaedic writing should be, being concise and thoroughly 
exhaustive of the practical portion of the subject. We notice, 
however, a few articles that should be omitted in a future edition, 
as, for example, “ ablution,” and some others. 
An established and well-known work of reference like 
“ Cooley,” however, does not require recommendation, and even a 
mere outline of all the subjects treated on would be impracticable 
in a work of such magnitude—some twelve hundred pages. We 
have therefore confined ourselves to a few of the most marked 
improvements in this edition, which, while handier and neater, 
