AFebJrOuarryPf9a04m•}      Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  89 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
To  the  Editor  of The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  Philadelphia. 
My  Dear  Sir  : — I  have  been  directed  by  the  Council  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  to  notify  the  pharmaceutical 
journals  of  an  unavoidable  delay  in  the  issue  of  the  1903  Report 
of  the  Proceedings.  Professor  Diehl  was  prevented  by  prolonged 
indisposition  from  completing  his  report  on  the  progress  of  Phar- 
macy within  the  usual  time,  but,  having  fully  recovered,  is  now 
busily  engaged  in  the  necessary  work,  and  the  book  will  in  all 
probability  be  ready  for  delivery  early  in  April. 
May  I  ask  you  kindly  to  give  publicity  to  this  notice  in  the  col- 
umns of  your  valued  journal  ? 
Very  truly  yours,  Chas.  Caspari,  Jr., 
Baltimore,  January  21,  1904.  General  Secretary. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Modern  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics.  By  A.  A.  Stevens. 
Third  edition,  greatly  enlarged,  rewritten  and  reset ;  8vo,  pp.  663. 
W.  B.  Saunders  &  Co.,  1903.    Cloth,  $3.50  net. 
There  seems  to  be  no  end  to  the  publication  of  books  containing 
pretty  much  the  same  facts,  the  only  difference  being  that  the  facts 
are  presented  differently.  One  is  almost  inclined  to  congratulate 
the  man  who  has  had  no  time  to  write  books,  as  has  been  said  of 
Schwendener,  the  great  German  botanist,  but  who  has  confined  him- 
self to  his  researches  and  teachings.  The  Germans  excel  us  because 
each  author  tries  to  write  something  new ,  he  works  and  sweats 
until  he  has  produced  a  work  of  originality,  freshness  and  interest. 
Many  American  works  on  materia  medica  and  therapeutics  are  so 
much  alike  that  it  seems  a  pity  that  the  author  has  wasted  his  time, 
and  that  the  physician  is  tempted  to  buy  them.  It  is  true  in  the 
case  of  text-books  that  the  student  is  saved  the  taking  of  notes,  or 
rather  gets  all  of  the  notes,  but  the  value  of  this  may  be  open  to 
question. 
In  the  present  book  the  drugs  are  classified  according  to  their 
pharmacological  action,  and  there  are  a  number  of  chapters  on 
applied  therapeutics  treating  of  (1)  acute  infectious  diseases;  (2) 
constitutional  diseases ;  (3)  diseases  of  the  blood  and  ductless  glands ; 
