494  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {A^^;imxm' 
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REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Handbuch  der  praktischen  Pharmacie,  fur  Apotheker,  Drogisten,  Aerzte  und 
Medicinal-Beam te.     Bearbeitet  von  Dr.  H.  Beckurts,  Professor  in  Braun 
•  schweig,  und  Dr.  Bruno  Hirsch,  Apotheker  in  Berlin.  Stuttgart :  Ferd.  Enke, 
1889. 
Handbook  of  practical  pharmacy  for  apothecaries,  druggists,  physicians  and 
medical  officers. 
This  meritorious  work  is  now  before  us  completed.  It  forms  two  good  sized 
octavo  volumes  of  733  and  721  pages.  "When  the  earlier  fascicles  appeared  we 
commented  upon  the  work  in  detail  (see  Amer  Jour.  Phar.,  1887,  378  and  543), 
and  we  have  but  very  little  to  add  now,  except  that  all  expectations  have  been 
fully  realized.  As  stated  before,  the  second  part  of  the  work  promised  to  be- 
come a  kind  of  universal  pharmacopoeia,  inasmuch  as  it  contains  a  com- 
pilation of  the  requirements  of  a  number  of  modern  pharmacopoeias.  It  was 
but  natural  to  expect  that  the  authors  should  add  comments  from  the  rich 
mines  of  their  own  experience,  and  this  has  been  copiously  done,  not  only 
with  strictly  pharmacopceial  drugs  and  preparations,  but  likewise  with  a 
number  of  the  recently  introduced  medicaments. 
The  third  part  contains  more  than  thirty  tables,  useful  for  reference,  and  the 
last  75  pages  are  occupied  with  the  full  and  complete  index,  facilitating  the  use 
of  this  work,  which  will  be  of  great  value  to  all  conversant  with  the  German 
language. 
Mittheilungen  aus  dem  pharmaceutischen  Institute  und  Laboratorium  for  ange- 
wandte  Chemie  der  Universitat  Erlangen,  von  A.  Hilger.  Mimchen ;  1889, 
I,  II,  8  vo,  pp.  180  and  309. 
Contributions  from  the  pharmaceutical  institute  and  laboratory  for  applied 
chemistry  of  the  university  of  Erlangen. 
These  pamphlets  give  an  account  of  a  number  of  researches  undertaken  by 
Prof.  Hilger  and  some  of  his  pupils  on  subjects  connected  with  the  sphere  de- 
signed for  the  laboratory.  Investigations  on  the  composition  and  alteration  of 
rocks,  the  absorbing  power  of  soils,  etc.,  are  found  in  the  first  number ;  while 
the  essays  in  the  second  number  are  on  pharmaceutical,  hygienic  and  forensic 
subjects,  like  foreign  coloring  matters  in  wine;  inversion  of  saccharose;  devel- 
opment of  huckleberry  and  fermentation  of  its  juice ;  solubility  of  alkaloids  in 
.xylol  and  in  absolute  ether ;  detection  of  cyanogen  compounds,  of  opium,  etc. 
Many  new  and  little  known  facts  are  presented  in  these  investigations. 
Etude  historigue  sur  les  Extraits  Pharmaceutiques  comprenant  la  description  des 
divers  precedes  et  appareils  ay  ant  servi  a  1' extraction  des  principes  actifs  des 
v6g6taux  etaleur  concentration,  suivie  d'une  double  table  bibliographique, 
par  Adrian,  Pharmacien  &c.  Paris :  Octave  Doin.  1889, 8vo.,  pp.  XVI,  and  731. 
Historical  study  on  the  pharmaceutic  extracts,  embracing  the  description  of 
