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EDITORIAL. 
more  especially  to  the  College  of  Physicians,  into  the  early  history  of 
which  he  enters  with  considerable  detail,  giving  sketches  of  several  of  the 
founders,  Drs.  Redman,  Jones  and  Hutchinson. 
The  address  concludes  by  an  appropriate  and  feeling  reference  to  the 
decease  of  Drs.  Bache  and  Thomas,  whose  standing  in  the  Society  elicited, 
and  deserved  fully  the  excellent  remarks  of  Dr.  Jewell. 
The  great  body  of  the  book  consists  of  the  reports  of  the  numerous 
country  Medical  Societies,  of  which  that  from  the  Philadelphia  County 
Society  is  the  longest.  This  report  contains  obituary  notices  of  Dr.  W. 
H.  Gillingham,  Dr.  A.  Bournonville,  Dr.  J.  B.  Haskell,  and  Dr.  J.  McG. 
Pugh.  The  volume  is,  we  believe,  brought  out  under  the  editorial  super- 
intendence of  the  Permanent  Secretary,  Dr.  Wm.  B.  Atkinson,  and  is 
well  printed  on  good  paper. 
A  Comprehensive  Medical  Dictionary ;  containing  the  pronunciation  ety- 
mology and  signification  of  the  terms  made  use  of  in  Medicine  and  the 
kindred  sciences,  with  an  appendix  comprizing  a  complete  list  of  all 
the  more  important  articles  of  the  Materia  Medica,  arranged  according 
to  their  medicinal  properties.  Also  an  explanation  of  the  Latin  terms 
and  phrases  occurring  in  Anatomy,  Pharmacy,  etc.,  together  with  the 
necessary  directions  for  writing  Latin  prescriptions,  etc.,  etc.  By  J. 
Thomas,  M.  D.,  author  of  the  system  of  pronunciation  in  Lippineott's 
Pronouncing  Gazetteer  of  the  World.  Philadelphia,  J,  B.  Lippincott 
&  Co.,  1864,  pp.  704,  duodecimo. 
A  hasty  glance  at  this  volume  induces  us  to  postpone  a  notice  of  it  to 
our  January  number,  that  its  merits,  which  appear  to  be  many,  may  be 
more  fully  examined.  So  far  as  looked  into,  it  appears  to  offer  much  that 
will  prove  highly  useful  to  medical  and  pharmaceutical  students,  and 
especially  to  medical  writers  and  lecturers,  to  whom  the  etymological  and 
pronuncial  features  of  the  work  will  be  especially  acceptable. 
Braithivaite's  Retrospect  of  Practical  Medicine  and  Surgery.    Part  XLIX., 
July.    New  Fork :  W.  A.  Townsend.    Pp.  300  octavo. 
We  owe  an  apology  to  the  puplishers  for  omitting  to  notice  the  reception 
of  Braithwaite  in  our  September  issue.  Among  the  papers  it  contains 
interesting  to  pharmaceutists  are  the  following: — 
On  the  preparation  of  opium  and  its  alkaloids  salts,  by  Dr.  A.  B.  Garrod. 
On  Lettuce  and  Lactucarium,  by  Dr.  A.  B.  Garrod. 
The  cheapest  disinfectant,  by  Robert  Druitt,  Esq.,  of  London. 
On  Bromide  of  Potassium,  by  Dr.  A.  B.  Garrod. 
On  chloroform  and  its  safe  administration,  by  Dr.  Charles  Kidd. 
And  on  acid  and  sugar  in  spirituous  liquors,  by  Dr.  H.  Bence  Jones. 
Our  medical  readers  will  be  gratified  by  many  valuable  papers  on  sur- 
gery and  midwifery,  upon  which  subjects  this  number  more  particularly 
treats. 
