640 
Reviews,  etc. 
f  Am  Jour.  Pharm. 
t      Dec.,  1882. 
both  by  the  author  and  editor.  That  its  external  apjDearance  is  in  keeping 
with  its  valuable  contents  needs  scarcely  be  mentioned. 
Tne  alphabetical  list  of  drugs  is  followed  by  a  smaller  one,  covering  32 
pages,  and  embracing  drugs  which  we  think  should  have  been  included  in 
the  first  list,  because  nearly  all  are  recognized  by  the  British  and  by  the 
last  or  present  United  States  Pharmacopoeia.  We  notice  with  pleasure 
that  the  chemically  incorrect  name,  propylamine,  which  is  still  largely 
used  in  prescriptions,  has  been  discarded  in  favor  of  the  correct  name,  tri- 
methylamine ;  but  we  are  rather  surprised  that  on  page  458  a  secret  prepa- 
ration is  noticed. 
On  page  188  it  is  stated  that  tea,  coffee,  guarana  and  eoca  contain  caf- 
feine; in  place  of  the  Isitier  mate  should  have  been  mentioned.  On  page 
148  the  statement  of  former  editions  is  repeated,  that  angustura  bark  "has 
fallen  into  disrepute  from  the  fact  that  it  was  occasionally  found  to  be  acci- 
dentally adulterated  or  mixed  with  nux  vomica  bark."  We  have  pointed 
out  before  ("Am.  Jour.  Phar.,"  1879,  p  334)  that  this  is  erroneous,  there  being 
but  one  substitution  on  record,  dating  back  to-the  beginning  of  the  present 
century.  Perhaps  the  author  had  in  view  the  false  angustura  bark  which 
we  described  in  1874  [ibid.,  1874,  p.  50),  and  which  Oberlin  and  Schlagden- 
haufFen  {ibid.,  p.  414)  subsequently  proved  to  have  been  obtained  from 
Esenbeckia  febrifuga,  Martins  ;  but  though  this  bark  has  a  slight  resem- 
blance to  the  nux  vomica  bark,  and,  like  the  latter,  is  not  aromatic,  but 
bitter,  it  is  not  poisonous,  but  is  or  has  been  used  throughout  France  in 
place  of  true  angustura  bark. 
Hheumatism,  Gout  and  some  Allied  Disorders.  By  Morris  Longstreth, 
M.D.,  one  of  the  attending  physicians  of  the  Philadelphia  Hospital,  etc. 
New  York  :  Wm.  Wood  &  Co.,  1882.    8vo,  pp.  280. 
This  forms  the  tenth  volume  of  the  current  series  of  Wood's  Library  of 
Standard  Medical  Authors,  and  treats  exhaustively  of  tbe  diseases  men- 
tioned on  the  title-page,  describing  their  varieties,  causes,  jmthology,  com- 
plications, morbid  anatomy,  diagnosis,  prognosis  and  treatment. 
The  Medical  Record  Visiting  List  or  Physicians^  Diary  for  1883.  New 
York  :  Wm.  Wood  &  Co. 
It  contains  lists  of  doses  for  internal  and  subcutaneous  use,  and  for  inha- 
lation, notes  on  disinfectants  and  antiseptics,  on  urinary  analysis,  on  anti- 
dotes to  poisons,  etc. 
Proceedings  of  the  First  Annual  Session  of  the  Alabama  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  held  at  Mobile,  May  8.    8vo,  p.  19. 
Proceedings  of  the  Twelfth  Annual  Meeting  of  Ihe  New  Jersey  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  held  in  Atlantic  City,  May  17  and  18,  1882.  Camden, 
N.  J.    8vo,  pp.  106. 
Proceedings  of  the  Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  in  Osh- 
kosh,  Aug.  8,  9  and  10,  1882.  Third  Annual  Meeting.  Janesville.  8vo, 
pp.  79. 
Brief  accounts  of  these  meetings  will  be  found  on  pages  326,  329  and  474 
of  the  present  volume.  The  second  pamphlet  contains  an  excellent  pho- 
totype portrait  of  the  late  Chas.  H.  Dalrymple;  and  to  the  last  is  appended 
the  first  report  of  the  Wisconsin  State  Board  of  Pharmacy. 
