188  EDITORIAL. 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Feb.  10th,  1860. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy: 
Dear  Sir — The  annual  election  of  Officers  of  the  St.  Louis  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association  took  place  on  the  5th  of  Januarys  at  the  Hall  of  the 
Association. 
The  retiring  President,  Mr.  Eugene  L.  Massot,  read  his  annual  address. 
He  states  the  Association  to  be  in  a  prosperous  condition,  which  is  evi- 
denced in  the  fact  that  the  desire  to  obtain  thorough  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion is  growing  of  greater  importance,  not  only  with  the  members  of  the 
Society,  but  also  of  the  craft  at  large,  which  is  the  principal  aim  of  this  and 
all  similar  associations. 
The  following  is  the  list  of  Officers  for  the  present  year  (1860): 
President — Enno  Sander. 
Vice  President — S.  D.  Hendell. 
Second  Vice  President — Thomas  Tanton. 
Recording  Secretary — Wm  B.  Parker. 
Corresponding  Secretary — Alex.  Leitch. 
Treasurer — Wm,  H.  Dornin. 
Executive  Committee — Wm.  H.  Dornin,  E.  L.  Massct,  Saml.  D.  Hendelb 
Thos.  Scott,  Theo.  Kalb. 
Committee  on  Progress  of  Pharmacy — James  O'Gallagher,  Wm.  B.  Parker, 
Alex.  Leitch.  T.  Kalb,  Wm,  H.  Dornin. 
Committee  on  Unofficinal  Formula — James  O'Gallagher,  Hubert  Prim  to, 
Thos.  Scott,  E.  L.  Massot,  Wm.  B.  Parker. 
Yours  respectfully, 
Alex.  Leitch,  Corres.  Sec. 
Therapeutics  and  Materia  Medica.  A  systematic  treatise  on  the  action 
and  uses  of  medicinal  agents,  including  their  description  and  history. 
By  Alfred  Stille,  M.  D.,  &c,  &c.  Philadelphia,  Blanchard  &  Lea, 
1860.  2  vols,  octavo  pp.  1788. 
The  volumes  indicated  above  have  long  been  in  preparation  by  their 
author  ;  during  more  than  ten  years  he  has  engaged  himself  in  their 
elaboration  from  the  mass  of  records  left  by  medical  observers  in  the  past, 
and  especially  in  the  present  century,  on  the  subject  of  Therapeutics. 
Although  the  title  indicates  descriptive  Materia  Medica  as  included  in 
the  scope  of  the  work,  the  reader  soon  finds  that  both  Materia  Medica  and 
Pharmacy  occupy  a  very  subordinate  position.  The  author  occasionally 
permits  himself  to  go  into  detail  in  his  description  and  history  of  drugs, 
but  rarely  enters  into  pharmaceutical  details  beyond  the  most  concise 
statement  of  the  constitution  and  mode  of  preparation  of  officinal  com- 
pounds. He  evidently  does  not  intend  this  portion  of  the  work  to  be  used 
for  reference,  as  a  dispensatory  or  formulary,  as  the  relative  proportions 
and  quantities  of  ingredients  in  the  formulas  are  frequently  not  men- 
tioned. The  reader,  for  instance,  is  informed  at  page  452,  in  speaking  of 
"Liquor  Ferri  lodidi: — "This  preparation  differs  from  the  last,  [the  solid 
