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Reviews. 
i  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I   December.  1j>97. 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1894,  p.  494,  and  the  good  opinion  then 
expressed  about  it  has  been  strengthened  by  a  more  intimate  acquaintance  with 
it.  We  think  that  every  pharmacist  of  the  country  would  find  it  of  advantage 
to  give  it  a  place  in  his  library. 
An  article  of  special  interest  is  that  on  the  Thyroid  Gland,  which  is  being 
so  extensively  employed  at  the  present  time  in  treating  myxcedema  and  cre- 
tinism ;  the  statements  made  coincide  with  some  of  the  experience  of  the 
writer. 
The  statement  that  "Pilocarpine  is  so  good  a  myotic  as  to  be  rapidly 
supplanting  eserine  (physostigmine)  for  this  purpose  with  some  clinicians,' 
will  be  new  to  many. 
The  book  is  abreast  of  the  day  in  treating  of  the  newer  remedies,  such  as 
Eucaine  Hydrochlorate  (the  synthetic  substitute  for  cocaine),  Formaldehyde, 
Nuclein,  Thiosiuamine  and  Thymus  Gland. 
The  article  upon  Diphtheria  is  a  most  interesting  and  valuable  one.  Profes- 
sor Hare  is  strongly  in  favor  of  the  antitoxin  treatment. 
It  is  probably  an  omission  that  in  the  article  on  Nux  Vomica  no  reference  is 
made  to  the  use  of  strychnine  nitrate  in  the  treatment  of  acute  alcoholism. 
C.  B.  L. 
Year-Book  of  Pharmacy.  Comprising  abstracts  of  papers  relating  to 
pharmacy,  materia  medica  and  chemistry,  contributed  to  British  and  Foreign 
journals,  from  July  1,  1896,  to  June  30,  1897,  with  the  transactions  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  at  the  thirty-fourth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Glas- 
gow, August,  1897.    J.  &  A.  Churchill.    London.  1897. 
The  foregoing  title  sufficiently  explains  the  scope  of  the  Year-Book,  and  it 
only  remains  to  be  said  that  this  year's  volume  is  fully  up  to  the  standard  of  its 
predecessors.  Its  compactness  is  a  valuable  feature,  which  is  obtained  by  the 
elimination  of  all  unnecessary  matter. 
Contributions  from  the  Botanical  Laboratory  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania.    Philadelphia.  1897. 
This  is  the  third  and  last  number  of  Volume  I,  and  contains  the  index  to  the 
volume.  The  first  number  was  issued  in  1892.  The  present  number  consists 
of  about  160  pages  of  text  and  nineteen  plates.  The  following  subjects  are 
considered:  "A  Chemico-Physiological  Study  of  Spirogyra  nitida,"  by  Mary 
E.  Pennington,  Ph.D.;  44  On  the  Structure  and  Pollination  of  the  Flowers  of 
Eupatorium  ageratoides  and  Eupatorium  ccelestinum,"  by  Laura  B.  Cross, 
Ph.D.;  "Contributions  to  the  Life-History  of  Amphicarpsea  monoica,"  by 
Adeline  F.  Schively,  Ph.D.  All  of  these  give  abundant  evidence  of  creditable 
research  work. 
L' Azote  ET  LE  Vegetation  Forestiere.  Par  E.  Henry,  Charged  de  Cours 
a  l'Ecole  Forestiere.    Pp.23.    Nancy,  France.  1897. 
On  the  Mechanisms  in  Certain  Lameuibranch  Boring  Molluscs. 
By  Francis  Ernest  Lloyd.  Pp.  17  and  two  plates.  Reprinted  from  Ttansac- 
tions  New  York  Academy  of  Science,  August,  1897. 
Semi-Annual  Report  of  Schimmel  &  Co.  Leipzig  and  New  York.  Oc 
tober,  1897. 
The  novelties  prepared  and  studied  during  the  past  six  months  were  :  Savory 
