Am.  Jour.  Pharm  ) 
Dec,  1882.  f 
Reviews y  etc. 
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The  Pharmacopoeia  proper  is  followed  by  a  list  of  reagents  and  various 
tables,  several  of  which  have  no  relation  whatever  to  the  Pharmacopoeia 
as  a  laiv  book,  no  matter  how  convenient  they  may  be  for  reference.  One 
of  the  most  important  and  necessary  tables  is  that  on  pp.  454,  455,  giving 
approximately  the  differences  of  strength  of  the  more  important  prepara- 
tions of  the  last  and  present  Pharmacopoeia. 
We  hope  at  an  early  date  to  enter  more  minutely  into  the  merits  of  the 
different  preparations,  and  solicit  from  our  readers  communications  giving 
their  experience  with  the  working  formulas  and  other  matters  of  the  new 
Pharmacopoeia,  which  we  hope  will  without  delay  become  the  guide  in 
matters  pharmaceutical  throughout  the  country.  In  this  connection  we 
wish  to  state  our  regret  that  none  of  the  members  of  the  Committee  of 
Revision  thought  of  it  in  time  before  the  book  was  placed  upon  the  market 
to  issue  it  with  the  recommendation  that  it  be  generally  adopted  for  the 
dispensing  of  medicine /rom  a  definite  time,  say  January  or  March  1,  1883. 
We  would  suggest  that  such  a  course  be  agreed  upon  after  a  new  revision. 
Pharmacopoea  Oerinanica.    Editio  altera.    Berolini :  Apud  R.  de  Decker 
(Marquardt  &  Schenck),  1882.    8vo,  pp.  366. 
The  German  Pharmacopoeia.    Second  edition. 
By  the  Chancellor's  edict  of  July  8,  1882,  the  use  of  this  new  Pharmaco- 
poeia, which  is  published  in  the  Latin  language,  becomes  obligatory 
throughout  the  German  Empire  from  January  1st  next.  The  general 
arrangement  remains  the  same  as  in  the  previous  edition  ;  obsolete  drugs 
have  been  dismissed  and  new  ones  introduced.  The  descriptions  of  crude 
drugs  are  concise  and  the  tests  brief  and  to  the  point ;  the  same  may  also 
be  said  of  the  chemicals.  The  galenical  preparations  are  in  the  main  made 
as  heretofore ;  wherever  extraction  is  necessary,  it  is  performed  by  macera- 
tion, not  by  percolation,  as  with  us.  The  directions  are,  as  a  rule,  quite 
brief,  and  it  is  not  considered  necessary  to  enter  so  minutely  into  the 
details  of  the  different  processes  as  is  customary  in  our  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  formulas  are  partly  (most  syrups)  constructed  upon  100  parts  of  fin- 
ished product ;  but  in  other  classes  of  galenicals,  like  ointments,  tinctures, 
species,  wines,  etc.,  this  plan  has  not  been  followed,  though  in  many  cases 
the  values  given  are  easily  convertible  into  100  parts  of  the  finished  prepa- 
ration (ointments  and  species),  or  of  the  menstruum  (tinctures,  wines). 
In  future  numbers  we  propose  giving  the  more  important  formulas  of 
this,  compared  with  similar  ones  of  our  new  Pharmacopoeia. 
A  Guide  to  Therapeutics  and  Materia  Medica.  By  Robert  Farquharson, 
M.D.,  Edin.,  etc.  Third  American  edition,  revised  by  the  author.  En- 
larged and  adapted  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  by  Frank  Woodward, 
M.D.,  Physician  to  the  German  Hospital  Philadelphia.  Philadelphia: 
Henry  C.  Lea's  Son  &  Co.,  1882.    Royal  12mo,  pp.  526. 
As  a  convenient  and  reliable  work  of  reference  this  "Guide"  is  duly 
appreciated  by  physicians,  two  editions  having  been  exhausted  within  five 
years.  The  general  plan  and  internal  arrangement  has  been  preserved  in 
the  present  edition,  and  much  care  has  evidently  been  bestowed  upon  it^ 
