Amsiptr,'i337arm"}    Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  477 
What  to  do  in  Cases  of  Poisoning.— By  Wm,  Murrell,  M.D.,  F.R.C.P.  Lec- 
turer on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics  in  the  Westminster  Hospital, 
etc.  First  American  from  the  fifth  English  edition.  Edited  by  Frank 
Woodbury,  M.D.,  Fellow  of  College  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia,  etc. 
Published  by  the  Medical  Register  Co.,  Philadelphia,  1887.  12  mo,  pp.  158. 
The  general  diagnosis  of  cases  of  poisoning,  based  upon  the  most  striking 
symptoms,  opens  the  introductory  portion  of  this  little  volume,  which  also 
enumerates  the  poisonous  ingredients  known  or  supposed  to  be  present  in 
a  number  of  popular  nostrums.  A  source  of  possible  poisoning  is  pointed 
out  from  the  slow  solubility  of  certain  pill  coatings ;  if  pills  containing  ac- 
tive ingredients  have  been  taken  repeatedly,  the  coating  of  several  may  be 
dissolved  under  specially  favorable  circumstances,  and  thus  the  effects  of 
an  unusually  large  dose  of  the  poison  may  be  produced.  The  antidote  cases 
of  various  manufacturers  are  described,  and  the  different  emetics  and  other 
means  of  treatment,  and  subjects  relating  to  poisoning,  are  briefly  discussed 
in  the  introductory  part. 
The  greater  portion  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  the  poisons,  which  are  ar- 
ranged in  alphabetical  order,  and  are  usually  considered  under  the  following 
headings  :  How  taken,  symptoms,  diagnosis,  fatal  dose  and  treatment.  All 
these  points  are  concisely  discussed  with  the  view  of  practical  application  in 
cases  of  emergency,  greater  prominence  being,  as  a  matter  of  course,  given 
to  those  poisons  most  commonly  used. 
The  work  is  thoroughly  practical,  and  will  doubtless  be  as  well  apprecia- 
ted in  this  country  as  it  has  been  in  Great  Britain,  since  the  American  edi- 
tor has  rendered  the  nomenclature  and  formulas  in  harmony  with  our 
pharmacopoeia,  and  has  made  some  other  changes  intended  to  increase  its 
usefulness  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 
A  Compend  of  Pharmacy.. — By  F.  E.  Stewart,  M.D.,  Ph.G.,  etc.,  Philadelphia. 
P.  Blakiston,  Son  &  Co. 
We  again  refer  to  the  new  edition  of  this  work  for  the  purpose  of  stating 
that  it  may  be  obtained  interleaved,  as  we  suggested  on  p.  879  of  our  July 
number,  so  as  to  serve  as  a  convenient  note-book.  For  this  purpose  it 
would  be  still  further  improved,  we  think,  by  the  omission  in  the  first  two 
parts  of  the  questions  preceding  the  text  proper. 
Twenty-third  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises  of 
the  66th  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  for  the 
year  1886-1887.    8vo,  pp.  242. 
This  pamphlet  contains  the  minutes  of  the  Executive  Board  and  of  the 
annual  meeting,  most  of  the  lectures  delivered  at  the  social  meetings,  obitu- 
ary notices,  interesting  correspondence,  commencement  exercises,  etc.  It 
may  be  obtained  from  the  efficient  secretary,  Wm.  E.  Krewson,  Ph.G. 
American  Medicinal  Plants. — An  Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Guide  to  the 
American  Plants  used  as  Homoeopathic  Remedies,  their  History,  Prepara- 
tion, Chemistry  and  Physiological  effects.    By  Chas.  F.  Millspaugh,  M.D. 
