110 
Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
Feb.,  1887. 
Principles  of  General  Pharmacy,  with  special  references  to  systems  of  weights- 
and  measures,  specific  gravity  and  its  uses,  pharmaceutical  manipulations * 
pursuant  to  a  course  of  Adolphus  Fennel,  Professor,  etc.;  compiled  by 
Ch.  T.  P.  Fennel,  Ph.  G.,  Professor  of  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Instructor  in 
the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory  in  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy- 
Cincinnati  :  McDonald  &  Eick,  1886.   8vo,  pp.  124. 
This  is  an  outline  of  a  course  of  lectures  on  pharmacy,  commencing  with  an 
explanation  of  prescriptions,  and  then  treating  of  weights  and  measures  in 
their  various  relations ;  after  a  definition  of  the  various  physical  forces  the 
different  pharmaceutical  manipulations  are  considered,  and,  finalty,  the  dif- 
ferent classes  of  pharmaceutical  preparations.  The  little  work  is  well  adapted 
as  a  note  book  on  such  a  course  of  lectures. 
Gmelin-Krauf  s  Handbuch  der  Chemie.  Anorganische  Chemie.  Sechste  urn- 
gearbeitete  Auflage.  Zweiter  Band,  erste  Abtheilung.  Heidelberg:  Carl 
Winter's  Universitatsbuchhandlung.  1886. 
Gmelin- Kraut's  Handbook  of  Chemistry.  Anorganic  chemistry.  Sixth  edition,, 
rewritten.    Price  of  each  number  1£  Mark. 
We  are  much  pleased  to  announce  that  after  a  lapse  of  several  years  the 
first  part  of  the  second  volume  has  been  completed,  forming  with  the  table  of 
contents,  a  stately  volume  of  960  pages.  We  have  previously  stated  that  the 
work  is  issued  in  numbers,  sixteen  of  which  were  necessary  for  the  present 
one  containing  the  metals  of  the  alkalies,  alkaline  earths  and  earths.  The- 
last  three  numbers  are  devoted  to  the"  compounds  of  silicium,  including  most 
of  the  minerals  of  which  this  element  forms  an  intrinsic  constituent,  and  to 
the  chemistry  of  glass.  The  last  eleven  pages  contain  corrections  and  additions 
to  the  preceding  pages  of  the  volume. 
This  comprehensive  work  in  its  latest  edition  is  now  completed  with  the 
exeption  of  the  chemistry  of  arsenic,  antimony,  tellurium  and  bismuth.  The 
first  volume,  published  in  two  parts,  contains  chemical  physics  (886  pages)  and 
non-metallic  elements  (580  pages);  and  the  third  volume  (1376  pages)  the 
chemistry  of  the  heavy  metals.  Of  the  second  part  of  the  second  volume, 
eight  numbers  (528  pages)  have  appeared,  bringing  this  portion  nearly  to  the 
end  of  the  manganium  compounds.  The  revision  of  this  part  has  been  under- 
taken by  Prof.  Jorgensen  of  the  Polytechnikum  in  Copenhagen,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  manuscript  may  be  sufficiently  advanced  to  enable  the  pub- 
lishers to  lay  this  grand  work,  completed,  into  the  hands  of  chemists  without 
great  delay. 
Ueber  Wirkung,  therapeutischen  Werth  und  Gebrauch  des  neuen  Karlsbader  Quell- 
salzes  nebst  dessen  Beziehung  zum  Karlsbader  Thermalwasser.  Von  Dr.  W. 
Jaworski,  Universitats-Dozenten  in  Krakau.  Selbstverlag  des  Verfassers. 
Large  4°,  pp.  33. 
On  the  action,  therapeutic  value  and  use  of  the  new  Karlsbad  spring  salt, 
and  its  relation  to  the  Karlsbad  thermal  water.  Published  by  the  author, 
Prof.  Dr.  W.  Jaworski  of  Cracow,  Austria. 
The  pamphlet  is  a  reprint  from  the  Wiener  Medizinische  Wochenschrift, 
1886,  and  is  mainly  devoted  to  experimental  investigations  made  in  the  clinic 
