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EDITORIAL. 
long  will  the  nomenclature  of  written  prescriptions  continue  to  diverge  in 
an  hundred  ways  from  the  plain  and  beautiful  nomenclature  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia,and  apothecaries  be  puzzled  and  annoyed  by  the  neces- 
sity of  remembering  several  names  for  the  same  substance  or  preparation. 
Coxe's  Companion  to  the  Medicine  Chest,  and  Compendium  of  Domestic 
Medicine;  particularly  adapted  for  captains  of  merchant  vessels,  mission- 
aries, and  colonists,  with  plain  rules  for  taking  the  medicines  ;  to  which 
are  added  directions  for  restoring  suspended  animation,  the  method  of  ob- 
viating the  effects  of  poisons,  a  plain  description  of  the  treatment  of  frac- 
tures and  dislocations,  and  a  concise  account  of  Asiatic  and  spasmodic 
cholera.  Revised  and  considerably  enlarged  by  R.  Davis,  member  of  the 
Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  assisted  by  some  of  the  most  eminent  physi- 
cians and  surgeons  of  the  day.  First  American  from  the  thirty-third  Lon- 
don edition.    New  York.    S.  S.  &  W.  Wood,  1851.    pp.  21G.  12mo. 
General  Board  of  Health.  Second  Report  on  Quarantine.  Yellow  Fever. 
With  Appendices.  Presented  to  both  Houses  of  Parliament  by  command 
of  Her  Majesty.    London,  1852.    pp.409.  8vo. 
This  valuable  report  on  the  question  of  the  propriety  and  usefulness  of 
quarantine  as  a  protection  in  yellow  fever  epidemic,  is  based  on  a  wide  ex- 
tent of  observations  in  the  countries  where  yellow  fever  prevails,  by  nu- 
merous observers  in  the  medical  corps  of  the  army  and  navy  of  Great 
Britain,  and  by  other  medical  gentlemen  ;  and  on  a  careful  analysis  of  the 
facts  attending  the  alleged  importation  of  yellow  fever  into  Gibraltar  and 
other  places.  The  commissioners  arrive  at  the  conclusion  that  the  tendency 
of  quarantine  is  useless  and  mischievous,  and  that  the  true  preventive 
means  are  in  obeying  the  laws  of  municipal  hygiene,  by  effecting  those 
"  sanitary  works  and  operations,  having  for  their  object  the  removal  and 
prevention  of  the  several  localizing  conditions,  and  when  such  permanent 
works  are  impracticable,  the  temporary  removal,  as  far  as  may  be  practica- 
ble, of  the  population  of  the  infected  localities." 
Appendix  to  the  Report  of  the  General  Board  of  Health  on  the  Epidemic 
Cholera  of  1848  and  1849.  Abstract  of  Report  by  James  Wynne,  M.  D.,  on 
epidemic  cholera  as  it  prevailed  in  the  United  States  in  1849  and  1850. 
Presented  to  both  Houses  of  Parliament  by  command  of  Her  Majesty.  Lon- 
don, 1853.    pp.  93.  8vo. 
Discourses  delivered  by  Appointment  before  the  Cincinnati  Medical  Library 
Association,  January  9th  and  10th,  1852.  By  Daniel  Drake,  M.  D.  Cin- 
cinnati, 1852.    Wood  &  Anderson,    pp.  93.  12mo. 
