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bruised,  5  viii,  Liqu0rice  root  bruised,  siij,  Anise  seed  bruised,  Siij,  Carda- 
mom seed  bruised,  giv,  Orange  peel  bruised,  ^j,  Diluted  alcohol  a  sufficient 
quantity  to  make  a  gallon  of  tincture  by  maceration  and  displacement. 
Antidyne  is  a  substitute  for  Granville's  lotion,  suggested  by  Mr.  George 
Mellor,  apothecary  of  this  city,  who  considers  the  formula  strictly  private. 
It  is  said  to  differ  from  Granville's  lotion  in  not  producing  vesication. 
Unguentum  Elemi  Compositum,  is  the  old  name  for  Unguentum  Elemi,  as 
employed  in  the  London  Pharmacopoeia  of  1824.  On  the  revision  of  that 
work  in  183G,  the  terminal  adjective  was  omitted.  We  presume  the  old 
name  is  employed  only  by  old  practitioners,  or  by  those  of  recent  date  whose 
books  of  reference  are  antiquated. 
A  correspondent  asks,  "Is  a  physician  justifiable  in  writing  a  prescrip- 
tion for  a  preparation  not  recognized  by  our  Pharmacopoeia  without  giving 
a  formula  for  it?"  and  says,  "  It  often  happens  that  a  patient  has  to  travel 
over  half  the  city  (or  get  his  apothecary  to  do  so  for  him)  to  find  one  article 
in  a  prescription,  unless  he  happens  t:>  stumble  upon  the  particular  shop  in 
which  alone  the  article  is  kept."  In  many  instances  physicians  are  justi- 
fiable in  prescribing  beyond  our  Pharmacopoeia  without  giving  authorities, 
because  a  very  considerable  number  of  non-officinal  medicines  are  kept  in 
our  shops  ;  yet  it  is  much  safer  for  their  patients,  and  convenient  for  the 
apothecary  to  have  some  indication  of  the  authority  on  the  prescription,  as 
(Lond.  Ph.)  (Paris  Codex)  "  Dunglison's  Mew  Remedies,"  "  Ellis'  Formu- 
lary," etc.  If  it  is  a  new  preparation  introduced  by  some  particular  apo- 
thecary which  the  Physician  desires  to  try,  let  him  write  the  name  of  the 
apothecary,  on  the  prescription.  This  may  often  happen  without  the  slight- 
est impropriety  on  thepartof  eitherphysician  or  apothecary,  when  no  secrecy 
is  observed  by  the  latter  in  reference  to  the  composition  of  the  preparation, 
and  the  patient  or  his  apothecary  may  get  supplied  with  it  on  demand. 
Every  apothecary  has  a  just  right  to  be  remunerated  for  his  skill.  It  is 
quite  different,  however,  when  their  is  collusion  between  physician  and 
apothecary,  by  the  use  of  hieroglyphics  by  the  former,  or  secret  formula  by 
the  latter.  The  Code  of  Ethics  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
and  the  joint  Report  of  the  County  Medical  Society  and  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  published  a  year  ago  in  this  Journal,  set  this  matter  in  a 
clear  light. 
Materia  Medica  or  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics.  By  "William  Tully, 
M.  D.  Vol.  I.,  No.  1,  Nov.  1852 ;  pp.  64.  Springfield,  Mass. 
For  some  months  past  it  has  been  announced  through  several  of  the 
medical  journals  that  Dr.  Tully,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  formerly  of  New 
Haven,  was  about  to  publish  a  work  on  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics. 
The  work  is  to  be  published  in  monthly  numbers  of  64  pages,  at  twenty- 
five  cents  each,  and  will  probably  extend  to  twenty.  Dr.  Tully  is  spoken 
of  as  a  gentleman  qualified,  by  long  experience,  and  extensive  reading  and 
