Am.  Jour.  Pbaraj. ) 
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Unlike  the  work  just  alluded  to,  is  this  book  by  Dr.  Osborne.  It 
has  been  written  to  help  the  student  use  the  Pharmacopoeia  and 
furnishes  an  excellent  foundation  for  the  study  of  pharmacology  and 
therapeutics.  The  first  section,  on  Experimental  Pharmacology, 
is  intended  as  an  introduction  to  the  laboratory  course.  The  next 
section,  on  the  Action  of  the  Important  Drugs,  is  arranged  alphabet- 
ically to  allow  the  instructor  free  choice  of  the  drug  he  will  demon- 
strate, and  furnishes  to  the  student  a  quick  and  convenient  reference 
to  the  physiological  action  of  each  drug.  The  section  on  Pharmacy 
explains  the  important  preparations  of  the  United  States  Pharma- 
copoeia. The  doses  are  given  in  both  systems,  and  preparations  are 
grouped  according  to  the  size  of  the  dose,  this  perhaps  being  the 
best  means  of  helping  the  student  to  remember  them.  The  sections 
on  Poisoning,  Weights  and  Measures,  Latin  Abbreviations,  Prescrip- 
tion Writing  and  Dosage  are  all  of  great  importance  to  the  future 
practitioner  of  medicine,  and  are  all  subjects  which  in  the  usual 
medical  course  do  not  receive  the  attention  which  they  deserve. 
The  latter  part  of  the  book,  which  briefly  describes  the  various 
methods  of  locally  treating  different  parts  of  the  body,  will  be  found 
exceptionally  valuable,  and  belong  in  a  book  of  this  introductory 
type  rather  than  in  a  larger  work. 
Both  the  medical  student  and  pharmacist  will  be  benefited  by 
reading  and  studying  a  work  of  this  kind.  It  stimulates  thought 
and  will  be  found  helpful  in  practice. 
The  Food  and  Drugs  Act.  A  study  with  the  text  of  the  act, 
annotated,  the  rules  and  regulations  for  the  enforcement  of  the  act, 
food  inspection  decisions  and  official  food  standards.  By  Arthur  P. 
Greeley.  Washington :  John  Byrne  &  Company.  1907.  8vo., 
pp.  176.  #1.50. 
This  timely  work  is  "  a  critical  study  of  the  Federal  Food  and 
Drugs  Act,"  and  will  no  doubt  prove  of  value  to  manufacturer,  job- 
ber and  retailer  of  foods  and  medicines  alike.  The  book  contains 
chapters  on  the  general  purposes  and  scope  of  the  act ;  procedure 
under  the  act ;  articles  to  which  the  act  applies  ;  adulteration ;  mis- 
branding ;  the  guaranty ;  rules  and  regulations  for  the  enforcement 
of  the  food  and  drugs  act ;  food  inspection  decisions ;  standards  of 
purity  for  food  products,  and  a  number  of  miscellaneous  notes. 
