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intended  as  a  general  treatise  or  handbook  for  the  experienced  prac- 
titioner." A  question  may  be  raised  as  to  what  the  author  means 
by  "  the  novice  in  extemporaneous  compounding."  If  he  means  one 
who  has  not  had  a  prescribed  course  of  training  and  study,  then 
there  is  a  possibility  of  the  book's  doing  more  harm  than  good,  for 
such  an  one  should  not  be  permitted  to  engage  in  that  most 
responsible  of  all  the  work  which  the  pharmacist  has  to  do,  namely, 
extemporaneous  compounding.  If,  however,  he  means  the  recent 
graduate  of  pharmacy,  then  the  book  does  not  fill  a  real  want,  for 
the  graduate  of  pharmacy  will  supposedly  be  able  to  use  the  "  gen- 
eral treatise  "  or  "  handbook,"  to  which  reference  has  been  made. 
The  book  contains  some  good  things,  but  why  the  author  should 
have  chosen  this  method  of  presenting  them  at  this  time  is  not 
clear,  particularly  when  there  are  so  many  excellent  books  which 
the  beginner,  as  well  as  the  pharmacist,  should  have. 
PHILADELPHIA  MEDICAL  SCHOOLS  AND  THE 
UNITED  STATES  PHARMACOPCEIA. 
At  an  informal  conference,  called  by  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington, 
of  the  teachers  named  below,  in  the  medical  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
the  following  resolution  was  passed  : 
"  Resolved,  that  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  for  accuracy  in 
prescribing,  and  in  the  treatment  of  disease,  that  students  of  Medi- 
cine be  instructed  fully  as  to  those  portions  of  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  which  are  of  value  to  the  practitioner,  and  that 
members  of  the  Medical  profession  be  urged  to  prescribe  the  prep- 
arations of  that  publication,  and  further,  that  this  resolution  be 
forwarded  to  the  Medical  and  Pharmaceutical  Journals,  and  to  the 
teachers  of  Medicine  and  Therapeutics  in  the  United  States." 
James  Tyson,  John  H.  Musser,  John  Marshall,  Horatio  C.  Wood, 
Jr.,  H.  A.  Hare,  J.  W.  Holland,  Alfred  Stengel,  David  L.  Edsall, 
Seneca  Egbert,  M.  C.  Thrush,  James  Wilson,  E.  Q.  Thornton,  John 
V.  Shoemaker,  I.  Newton  Snively,  J.  M.  Anders,  S.  Solis  Cohen. 
February  3d,  1908. 
