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EDITORIAL. 
to  say,  then,  that  this  work  is  well  worthy  a  place  on  the  book  shelf  of  the 
student  of  pharmacy,  and  in  the  library  of  the  seeker  after  general  know 
ledge. 
Elements  of  Health  and  principles  of  Female  Hygiene.  By  E.  J.  Tilt,  M.  D., 
Senior  Physician  to  the  Farringdon  General  Dispensary,  &c.  Phila- 
delphia :  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1853.  pp.  436,  12mo." 
This  book,  which  is  intended  for  the  general  reader  and  more  especially 
for  parents  and  women,  belongs  to  the  class  of  which  Comb's  Phy- 
siology is  a  type,  and  is  calculated  to  be  of  essential  service  to  those  to 
whom  it  is  addressed.  Commencing  with  infancy,  the  hygienic  treatment 
of  children  best  calculated  to  develop  their  organic  systems,  and  through 
these  to  reach  their  moral  and  intellectual  natures,  is  pointed  out.  About  two- 
thirds  of  the  book  is  especially  devoted  to  the  physical  education  of  girls 
and  women,  and  the  subject  is  treated  in  a  manner  so  thorough  and  rational 
that  it  will,  if  attended  to,  not  only  guide  the  reader  clear  of  many  a  Scylla 
and  Charybdis  in  her  own  progress  through  organic  life,  but  will  enable 
her  to  be  an  intelligent  agent  of  the  physician  in  administering  to  the  suffer- 
ings of  infancy  and  childhood,  and  to  understand  those  manifestations  which 
instinctively  foreshadow  the  approach  to  womanhood,  and  the  neglect  of 
which  entails  such  lasting  and  melancholy  results  on  so  large  a  number  of 
her  sisters. 
Report  from  the  Select  Committee  on  the  Pharmacy  Bill,  together  with  the 
Proceedings  of  the  Committee,  Minutes  of  Evidence  and  Index.  Ordered  by 
the  House  of  Commons  to  be  printed,  May  21,  1852.    pp.  245,  folio. 
We  have  received  this  interesting  parliamentary  document  from  Jacob 
Bell,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  and  have  been  much  interested  in 
looking  over  the  testimony,  that  the  ample  powers  of  the  Committee  enabled 
them  to  elicit  from  some  of  the  most  distinguished  physicians,  apothecaries, 
and  pharmaceutical  chemists  of  England.  The  "  Bill"  was  "for  Regulating 
the  qualifications  of  pharmaceutical  chemists,"  and  subsequently  passed 
both  Houses  of  Parliament  and  became  a  law,  but  in  a  form  much  modified 
from  the  original  draft.  We  propose  to  take  an  early  opportunity  to  notice 
the  character  of  this  AcT,awhich  grants  certain  powers  to  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society,  and  will  then  give  some  extracts  from  the  testimony  given  before 
the  Committee. 
The  Principles  of  Botany  as  Exemplified  in  the  Cryptogamia.    By  Harland 
Coultas.    Philadelphia  ;  Lindsay  &  Blakiston. 
This  little  volume  is  intended  by  the  author  as  an  introduction  to  the 
study  of  the  simplest  or  least  highly  organized  plants — those  which  are 
usually  called  fiowerless,  including  mosses;  ferns  and  lichens.  The  book  is 
apparently  the  first  of  a  series  on  structural  botany,  and  the  author  diverges 
