638  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {Am-Dec.?i887arm* 
to  John  C.  Ing,  Jr.,  and  lecture  tickets  for  the  senior  course  to  the  junior 
student,  R.  T.  Frank.  During  the  last  session  of  the  college  fifty  students 
had  matriculated  as  juniors,  and  twenty-seven  as  seniors. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Text  Book  of  Therapeutics  and  Materia  Medica,  intended  for  the  use  of  students 
and  practitioners.  By  Robert  F.  Edes,  A.B.,  M.  D.,  etc.  Philadelphia:  Lea 
Brothers  &  Co.,  1887.  8vo,  pp.  552.    Price,  in  cloth,  $3.50 ;  in  leather,  $4.50. 
This  work  is  intended  to  be  of  practical  usefulness,  and  we  believe  that  it 
will  fulfill  its  mission.  The  action  and  uses  of  the  diflerent  drugs  are  given  in 
a  clear  and  comprehensive  manner  without  going  into  tedious  details,  and 
avoiding  theoretical  speculations  which  have  only  a  remote  bearing  on  the 
truly  therapeutic  action  of  drugs. 
The  consideration  of  the  drugs  is  preceded  by  brief  chapters  on  prescriptions 
and  incompatibles,  preparations  and  excipients,  absorption  and  elimination 
and  classification.  The  grouping  of  the  drugs  is  based  mainly  on  therapeutic 
action  without  losing  sight  of  their  chemical  nature  or  physiological  effects ;  the 
repetitions  that  did  become  necessary  by  this  arrangement  are  pointed  out 
not  only  in  the  index,  but  by  cross  references,  also  in  the  text.  The  groups  are 
twenty-five  in  number,  and  several  of  these  are  subdivided. 
Descriptions  of  crude  drugs  are  very  properly  omitted,  and  the  proximate 
constituents  are  mentioned  mainly  in  so  far  as  they  are  of  importance  on  ac- 
count of  the  medicinal  effects.  The  chemicals  are  very  briefly  characterized 
as  to  their  physical  appearance,  their  solubility  in  different  menstruums,  and 
their  chief  incompatibles.  Recently  introduced  compounds  are  likewise  con- 
sidered as  far  as  their  probable  importance  seemed  to  require;  thus  we  find 
references  to  iodol,  lanolin,  salol,  antifebrin,  antipyrine,  etc. 
A  table  of  poisons  with  their  antidotes,  a  therapeutic  index  and  a  general 
index  of  subjects  complete  the  work.  The  make-up  is  quite  attractive,  and  by 
the  use  of  different  types  the  pharmacopceial  and  extra- pharmacopceial  drugs 
are  readily  distinguished,  as  well  as  the  more  or  less  important  parts  of  the 
text. 
A  Laboratory  Manual  of  Chemistry,  medical  and  pharmaceutical,  containing 
experiments  and  practical  lessons  in  inorganic  synthetical  work;  formulae 
for  over  three  hundred  prepai  ations,  with  explanatory  notes  ;  examples  in 
quantitative  determinations  and  the  valuation  of  drugs  ;  and  short  siste- 
matic  courses  in  qualitative  analysis  and  in  the  examination  of  urine.  By 
Oscar  Oldberg,  Pharm.  D.,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  and  Director  of  the  Phar- 
maceutical Lab  >ratories  in  the  I  lmois  College  of  Pharmacy,  Northwestern 
University  ;  and  John  H.  Long,  Sc.  D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Director 
of  the  Chemical  Laboratories  in  the  Medical  College  and  the  Illinois  College 
of  Pharmacy,  Northwestern  University.  With  original  illustrations.  Chicago  : 
W.  T.  Keener.   8vo.  pp.  435. 
Of  the  three  parts  into  which  this  work  is  divided,  the  first  treats  of  the 
elements  and  their  compounds,  and  outlines  a  number  of  experiments  designed 
to  illustrate  the  characters,  chemical  and  physical,  of  the  non-metals,  while 
