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f  Am.  Jour.  Pharrru 
I  September,  1902, 
researches  so  persistently  and  will  eagerly  await  the  succeeding 
parts. 
The  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  German  Hospital  of  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  including  formulas  for  all  stock  preparations  and  the 
average  doses  of  all  the  drugs,  chemicals  and  preparations  usually 
dispensed  at  the  German  Hospital  Pharmacy.  Compiled  for  and 
published  by  the  Board  of  Trustees.    Philadelphia,  1902. 
When  one  considers  the  high  character  of  the  work  carried  011 
at  the  German  Hospital  and  the  fact  that  many  of  the  leading  hos- 
pitals have  published  formularies  for  years,  some  of  which  have  gone 
through  a  number  of  editions,  it  is  a  matter  of  surprise  that  the 
German  Hospital  has  not  ere  this  published  the  work  at  hand. 
The  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  German  Hospital  contains  a  list  not  only 
of  the  drugs  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  which  are  employed  in  the 
German  Hospital,  but  many  of  the  newer  synthetic  remedies  and  a 
large  number  of  formulas  that  have  been  designed  to  replace,  or  to- 
be  used  instead  of,  some  of  the  more  popular  so-called  proprietary^ 
preparations.  In  addition  to  these  there  are  also  a  number  of 
formulas  for  various  preparations,  or  stock  medicines,  that  have  been 
in  use  at  the  German  Hospital  for  upwards  of  ten  years,  the  efficacy 
of  which  has  been  sufficiently  demonstrated  to  entitle  them  to  con- 
tinued use. 
One  particularly  commendable  feature  of  this  formulary  is  that 
the  quantities  used  in  all  preparations,  as  well  as  doses,  are  given  in 
the  metric  system  exclusively.  Medicine-glasses  are  used  in  the 
hospital  in  which  approximate  metric  equivalents  of  spoonfuls  are 
indicated.  A  goodly  portion  of  the  preface  is  devoted  to  the  con- 
sideration of  the  important  subject  of  posology.  Inasmuch  as  "  all 
medicines  are  more  or  less  active  agents,  and  it  is  possible  for  even 
the  most  simple  and  harmless  drug  to  produce  startling  and  some- 
times serious  secondary  effects,"  the  nurse  of  the  hospital  is  expected 
to  be  on  the  lookout  for  lhe  latter  and  report  promptly  to  the  phy- 
sician. Too  much  attention  cannot  be  given  to  this  phase  of  the 
subject  of  posology,  as  doses  like  definitions  of  poisons  (see  this 
Journal,  1898,  p.  527)  have  not  as  yet  been  successfully  defined. 
This  work  contains,  beside  a  number  of  valuable  features  on 
general  directions  in  the  treatment  of  poisoning,  a  table  of  maximum 
doses  of  potent  remedies,  giving  maximum  single  doses  as  well  as 
maximum  amount  that  may  be  given  for  twenty-four  hours. 
