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understandings as to their pockets. The disposition of many practitioners 
of medicine to patronize the new, is a fruitful source of patronage to formu- 
laries and receipt books, especially by apothecaries, who, in addition to 
the desire to meet this penchant of the physician, have in view new articles 
addressed directly to the people, whether of medical or economical 
importance. 
The formulary of Dr. Beasley, however, has, if we may use the expres- 
sion, entirely a pharmaceutico-therapeutical direction, embracing, besides the 
authorized formulae of the Pharmacopoeias, numerous recipes for permanent 
and extemporaneous preparations, derived from various sources, which 
may often prove useful. Those who are unprovided with such a work will 
find this a useful addition to their books for constant reference. 
Banking's Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. No. 14. July to 
December, 1851. Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston. pp. 296. 3vo. 
"We have received this comprehensive periodical from the publishers. As 
it is addressed almost entirely to the physician, it does not become us to 
speak critically of its value ; a cursory glance at its contents, however, has 
induced the impression that its pages contain much useful information, 
interesting to the medical practitioner who does not receive a large income 
of periodical medical literature. 
Physiological Chemistry. By Professor C. Gr. Lehmann. Vol. 1. Trans- 
lated from the second edition by George E. Day, F. K. S. &c. London 1851. 
pp, 455. octavo. Printed for the Cavendish Society. 
The volume of Dr. Lehmann's chemistry constitutes the first of the 
volumes for 1851- the second (6th vol. Gmelin's Chemistry) not having yet 
appeared. "We will defer a notice of the work until our next issue, when it 
is proposed to give a sketch of the whole series of the Cavendish publications, 
