go  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {^'^li^m^' 
(4)  diseases  of  the  digestive  tract ;  (5)  diseases  of  the  respiratory 
system ;  (6)  diseases  of  the  circulatory  system  ;  (7)  diseases  of  the 
kidneys ;  and  (8)  diseases  of  the  nervous  system.  There  is  also  a 
chapter  on  remedial  measures  other  than  drugs,  as  electricity,  mas- 
sage, movement  therapy  for  locomotor  ataxia,  the  Schott  or  Nau- 
heim  treatment,  cold,  heat,  hypodermoclysis  and  infusion,  enterocly- 
sis,  lavage  of  the  stomach,  bloodletting,  phototherapy  and  X-ray 
therapy  and  lumbar  puncture. 
The  work  is  clearly  written  and  contains  a  great  amount  of  valu- 
able information. 
Materia  Medica  Americana.  By  David  Schopf.  Reproduced 
as  No.  3  of  the  Bulletins  of  the  Lloyd  Library  of  Botany,  Pharmacy 
and  Materia  Medica.    J.  U.  and  C.  G.  Lloyd,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  1903. 
This  work  of  Schopf  is  considered  to  be  the  rarest  of  American 
works  bearing  on  the  subject  ot  American  medicinal  plants.  It  is 
interesting  that  the  original,  from  which  the  present  copy  is  produced, 
was  found  by  Dr.  Charles  Rice  in  Italy  and  presented  by  him  to  the 
Lloyd  Library. 
An  interesting  biographical  shetch  of  Schopf,  prepared  by  Dr. 
Ed.  Kremers,  accompanies  this  volume. 
While  some  might  question  the  wisdom  of  reproducing  works  of 
this  kind,  which  are  largely  of  historical  interest,  still,  after  all,  it  is 
to  the  earlier  workers  rather  than  their  successors  that  the  principal 
credit  is  due  of  recording  and  preserving  the  knowledge  of  medici- 
nal plants  and  their  uses.  It  has  been  much  easier  to  rewrite  the 
earlier  work,  which  has  been  the  starting  point  of  the  contempora- 
ries and  immediate  successors  of  Schopf,  than  to  arrange  the  scattered 
facts  into  the  first  volume. 
The  Latin  Grammar  of  Pharmacy  and  Medicine.  By  D.  H. 
Robinson,  with  an  introduction  by  L.  E.  Sayre.  Fourth  edition, 
with  elaborate  vocabularies,  thoroughly  revised  by  Hannah  Oliver. 
Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston's  Son  &  Co.,  1012  Walnut  Street.  1903. 
The  present  edition  retains  the  essential  features  of  the  earlier 
ones,  but  has  been  carefully  revised.  In  accordance  with  the 
expressed  wish  of  some  pharmacists  and  physicians,  the  English 
method  of  the  pronunciation  of  Latin  has  been  explained.  Professor 
Sayre  has  contributed  chapters  on  prescription  writing  and  chemical 
