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Both  pharmacists  and  physicians  will  find  the  work  useful  and 
suggestive, 
Practical  Methods  of  Urine-Analysis,  for  Chemists  and  Drug- 
gists, with  Notes  on  the  Composition  of  the  Normal  and  Abnormal 
Secretions.  Second  and  enlarged  edition.  Published  at  the  offices 
of  The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  42  Cannon  Street,  London,  E.  C. 
Branch  offices :  Adelaide,  Melbourne  and  Sydney,  Australia ;  and 
New  York,  U.S.A.,  1902.    Price,  2s.  6d.  net. 
It  matters  not  whether  boards  of  health  in  some  localities  carry 
on  analyses  for' physicians  free  of  charge  or  whether  some  physi- 
cians consider  it  to  be  beyond  the  province  of  the  pharmacist  to 
conduct  such  analyses  when  he  asks  a  reasonable  recompense  for  his 
services,  the  fact  remains  that  reputable  pharmacists  are  in  some 
instances  doing  this  work  for  physicians  and  are  being  paid  for  it. 
There  are  several  reasons  why  the  pharmacist  is  usually  a  proper 
person  to  do  this  work.  Urinalysis  is  an  analytical  piece  of  work, 
and  the  graduates  of  colleges  of  pharmacy  are  trained  analysts. 
Chemical  analyses,  pharmaceutical  assays  and  microscopical  manipu- 
lations he  performs  daily  during  his  college  work.  These  are  to  the 
pharmacist  of  primary  consideration,  and  while  the  physician  may 
receive  a  certain  amount  of  instruction  in  these  branches,  the  work 
is  all  secondary  to  the  practice  of  medicine  with  its  multiplicity  of 
other  details  with  which  he  is  engrossed.  Urinalysis  and  blood-exam- 
inations are  an  aid  in  his  diagnoses.  These  require  the  time  that  the 
physician  needs  for  attending  to  his  office  practice  or  at  the  bedside 
of  the  patient.  The  busy  practitioner  does  not  usually  attend  to  his 
practice  and  carry  on  his  analyses  any  more  than  he  compounds  his 
own  medicine.  These  things  he  delegates  to  the  pharmacist  whom 
he  has  learned  is  competent  and  trustworthy. 
There  are  many  works  on  the  examination  of  the  urine,  nearly 
all  of  which  are  written  from  the  viewpoint  of  the  physician.  The 
present  book  is  written  for  the  pharmacist  and  is  a  clear  and  concise 
treatment  of  the  essentials  that  are  necessary  for  everyday  work  in 
analysis.  The  following  are  the  subjects  treated :  Urine  in  health 
and  disease,  referring  to  composition,  collection  of  sample,  daily 
quantity,  physical  appearances,  reaction,  specific  gravity  and  solids ; 
chemical  analysis  of  urine ;  analysis  of  abnormal  constituents ; 
microscopical   examination ;   optical   examination ;  miscellaneous 
