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Book  Reviews. 
<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  November,  1910. 
William  Tully,  Grover  Coe,  Robert  Stafford  Newton,  Edward  S. 
Wayne,  Calvin  Newton,  and  John  Coakley  Lettsom. 
This  Bulletin  of  the  Lloyd  Library  will  always  be  consulted  by 
the  historical  students  in  pharmacy  and  medicine  with  great  interest 
and  profit,  although  the  author  considers  it  "  as  merely  an  intro- 
ductory chapter  "  regarding  the  record  of  American  materia  medica 
and  pharmacy. 
H.  K. 
Serum  Diagnosis  of  Syphilis  and  the  Butyric  Acid  Test  for 
Syphilis.  By  Hideyo  Noguchi,  Associate  Member  of  the  Rocke- 
feller Institute  for  Medical  Research,  New  York.  14  Illustrations. 
Philadelphia  and  London:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company. 
"  The  object  of  this  book,"  as  stated  by  the  author,  "  is,  first,  to 
give  a  brief  yet  adequate  account  of  the  principles  of  serum  haemol- 
ysis and  of  the  behaviors  of  the  combinations  of  antigens  and  anti- 
bodies towards  haemolysis,  so  essential  for  a  proper  understanding 
of  the  subject,  discussing  at  some  length  the  quantitative  relation- 
ship of  the  factors  playing  a  part  in  these  phenomena,  an  aspect  of 
the  subject  that  has  perhaps  not  received  the  consideration  that  it 
deserves  ;  and,  secondly,  to  give  in  detail  the  technic  of  Wasser- 
mann's  method  and  of  the  method  recommended  by  the  author." 
The  presentation  of  the  subject  by  the  author  is  logical  and 
unusually  clear,  so  that  this  work  can  be  used  as  a  laboratory  guide 
by  the  student  and  medical  practitioner.  From  the  numerous  conr 
firmatory  results  obtained  by  Dr.  Noguchi  it  would  appear  that  the 
butyric  acid  test  is  a  useful  addition  to  the  diagnostic  methods  in  the 
detection  of  parasyphilitic  diseases  of  the  central  nervous  system 
and  of  cerebrospinal  syphilis. 
H.  K. 
Fungous  Diseases  of  Plants.  With  chapters  on  Physiology, 
Culture  Methods,  and  Technique.  By  Prof.  Benjamin  M.  Duggar, 
New  York  State  College  of  Agriculture,  Cornell  University.  Boston : 
Ginn  and  Company. 
While  there  are  several  good  foreign  books  dealing  with  plant 
diseases,  there  has  not  been  available  a  work  which  deals  with 
American  conditions  and  takes  cognizance  of  the  large  number  of 
investigations  on  plant  pathology  which  have  been  carried  on  in 
this  country, 
