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eases, the names of the latter being arranged alphabetically, and 
followed by the reminder. 
Following this appendix is a general tariff with blanks to be 
filled in with prices, analogous to our druggist's manual. An in- 
dex of authors and the polyglot index before alluded to, conclude 
the Officine of Mr. Dorvault. 
Such is the work which we have attempted to introduce to the 
notice of our colleagues, and which we recommend also to the at- 
tention of the medical profession. The industry of the author, in 
this undertaking, has been immense. He has thrown together an 
infinite amount of useful and well arranged matter, which will 
place the Officine among the most substantial works on practical 
pharmacy. As a whole, Mr. Dorvault's book may not have the 
same claims to a scientific treatise on practical pharmacy as that 
of Soubeiran; but such as it is, it will be found a most complete 
guide to carry on all the business of the shop, scientific and prac- 
tical. It will, particularly, be useful in this country where the 
numerous foreign physicians, who have settled among us, are much 
in the habit of writing their prescriptions in their national nomen- 
clature, or of prescribing preparations unknown to us either by 
name or composition. 
We have, likewise, received another work of Mr. Dorvault, en- 
titled Iodognosie, or a chemical, medical and pharmaceutical Mono- 
graph of Iodine and its compounds, published in 1850. This work 
of 300 pages has received two gold medals ; one from the medical 
Society of Lyons in France ; the other, from the Belgian Society 
of Sciences Belles Letters and Fine Arts. We have not had 
time as yet to examine the work thoroughly, but we have no doubt 
that this new production of Mr. Dorvault, so successfully crowned 
by two learned Societies, is deserving the attention of Physicians 
and Pharmaceutists. E. D. 
