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REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
A  very  timely  "Treatise  on  Smallpox"  is  announced  for  publi- 
cation early  in  April  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company.  It  is  written  by 
Dr.  George  Henry  Fox,  Professor  of  Dermatology  in  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  with  the  collaboration  of 
Drs.  S.  Dana  Hubbard,  Sigmund  Pollitzer,  and  John  H.  Huddleston, 
all  of  whom  are  officials  of  the  Health  Department  of  New  York 
City,  and  have  had  unusual  opportunities  lor  the  study  and  treat- 
ment of  this  disease  during  the  present  epidemic. 
The  work  is  to  be  in  atlas  form,  similar  to  Fox's  "  Photographic 
Atlas  of  Skin  Diseases,"  published  by  the  same  house.  A  strong 
feature  of  the  work  will  be  its  illustrations,  reproduced  from  recent 
photographs,  the  major  portion  of  which  will  be  so  colored  as  to  give  a 
very  faithful  representation  of  typical  cases  of  variola  in  the  successive 
stages  of  the  disease ;  also  unusual  phases  of  variola,  vaccinia,  vari- 
cella, and  diseases  with  which  smallpox  is  liable  to  be  confounded. 
These  illustrations  number  thirty-seven  and  will  be  grouped  into 
ten  colored  plates,  9^x10^  inches,  and  six  black-and-white  photo- 
graphic plates. 
The  names  of  Dr.  Fox  and  his  associates  assure  the  excellence 
of  the  work,  in  which  will  be  described  the  symptoms,  course  of  the 
disease,  characteristic  points  of  diagnosis,  and  most  approved 
methods  of  treatment. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  fifth  of  the  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  for  1 901-1902  was  held  on  Tuesday, 
February  18th.  Mr.  James  T.  Shinn,  Treasurer  of  the  College, 
presided. 
The  first  speaker  was  Prof.  Edgar  F.  Smith,  Professor  of  Chem- 
istry and  Vice-Provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  who  read 
a  valuable  paper  on  "  The  Basis  of  Atomic  Weights."  He  reviewed 
the  work  of  Dalton,  the  philosopher,  and  of  Berzelius,  the  eminent 
experimenter,  who  enriched  science  in  every  field  he  investigated. 
The  former  is  known  chiefly  because  he  promulgated  the  doctrine 
that  the  weight  of  the  hydrogen  atom  equals  1.  Berzelius  devel- 
oped methods  of  research,  and  he  chose  oxygen  as  a  standard  for 
