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hours  of  nine  and  ten  the  services  of  the  night  clerks  have  been  very  rarely 
required,  the  public  generally  approving  of  the  earlier  closing. 
The  Louisville  Medical  Herald  has  a  "  Pharmaceutical  Department "  which  has 
been  in  charge  of  and  ably  conducted  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Fowler,  who  now  announces 
that  his  other  duties  have  been  augmented  by  one  of  such  paramount  import- 
ance as  to  compel  him  to  relinquish  the  editorial  chair.  The  retiring  editor 
has  done  good  work  while  in  charge  of  the  publication  indicated,  and  we  trust 
that,  though  retiring  from  editorial  labors,  he  may  still  find  time  and  occasion 
for  giving  the  influence  of  his  pen  to  the  cause  of  pharmacy. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
The  Practice  of  Pharmacy.  A  treatise  on  the  modes  of  making  and  dispensing 
officinal,  unofficinal  and  extemporaneous  preparations,  with  descriptions  of 
their  properties,  uses  and  doses ;  intended  as  a  hand-book  for  pharmacists  and 
physicians  and  a  text  book  for  students.  Second  edition  ;  enlarged  and  thor- 
oughly revised.  By  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Ph.M.,  F.C.S. ,  Professor  of  Theory 
and  Practice  of  Pharmacy,  and  Director  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory  in 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  With  over  six  hundred  illustrations. 
Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  1889.  8vo,  pp.  1,300.  Price  in 
cloth,  $6.00. 
We  are  pleased  to  announce  the  publication  of  the  second  edition  of  this 
work,  which  makes  its  appearance  four  years  after  the  first  edition  was  noticed 
in  this  journal.  The  value  of  the  work  was  then  pointed  out,  and  what  was 
then  said  about  it  remains  good  also  for  the  present  edition,  which  in  its 
general  plan  and  arrangement  remains  unaltered,  but  as  compared  with  the 
former  has  been  increased  in  size  by  220  pages,  ten  of  which  belong  to  the 
excellent  index.  The  cause  of  this  large  increase  is  pointed  out  in  the  preface 
and  is  due  to  the  appending  to  each  chapter  of  a  series  of  questions  on  the  sub- 
jects treated  of  in  the  chapter,  and  is  intended  for  the  student's  self  examina- 
tion ;  to  the  insertion,  after  the  chapter  on  metrology,  of  typical  pharmaceutical 
problems  and  exercises  in  alligation  ;  totne  numerous  additions  made  in  Part 
V,  on  "  Magistral  Pharmacy ; "  and  to  the  incorporation,  in  Part  VI,  of  the 
formulas  of  the  National  Formulary,  and  of  others  that  appeared  to  be  desirable. 
The  former  of  these  are  distinguished  from  the  others  by  the  affix  N.  F.  and 
by  the  numbers  assigned  to  them  in  this  publication ;  but  they  are  arranged 
with  the  other  formulas  under  the  heads  of  their  chief  or  characteristic  con- 
stituents. A  very  interesting  subject  for  study  and  reflection  is  presented  by 
the  autograph  prescriptions  illustrated  by  one  hundred  fac  similes,  the  originals 
of  which  appear  to  have  been  collected  from  different  parts  of  the  country,  and 
selected  for  some  commendable,  erroneous  or  doubtful  qualities.  These  pre- 
scriptions and  the  accompanying  text  have  been  printed  upon  enameled 
paper  in  order  to  preserve  the  charactristics  of  the  writing. 
In  its  new  garb  the  "Practice  of  Pharmacy  "  will  prove  as  useful  as  hereto- 
fore, and  in  addition  to  its  former  will  secure  many  new  friends. 
Proceedings  of  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations. 
The  following  printed  Proceedings  have  been  received  : 
