Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
M*y,  1878 
Reviews,  etc. 
271 
The  Multum  in  Par<vo  Reference  and  Dose  Book.    By  C.  H  Leonard,  M.A.,  M.D. 
Third  edition.    Detroit,  1878.     i6mo,  pp.  100.    Price,  bound,  75  cts. 
The  little  book  may  be  conveniently  carried  in  the  vest  pocket  and  contains  a 
good  deal  of  information  of  value  to  the  physician.  We  were  rather  surprised  to 
find  it  contain  a  list  of  nearly  a  hundred  elixirs  and  ever  so  many  pills,  evidently 
copied  from  the  price  lists  of  manufacturers.  Such  space,  in  our  opinion,  might 
have  been  occupied  with  more  useful  and  more  important  information. 
Sur  la  Composition  des  Cloportes.    Par  Dr.  C.  Mehu.    Paris,  1878. 
On  the  composition  of  hoglice  (woodlice). 
Two  species,  Oniscus  asellus  and  O.  armadillay  Lin.,  are  still  recognized  in  the 
French  Pharmacopoeia,  and  to  some  extent  employed  by  the  people  mainly  on 
account  of  their  diuretic  properties.  The  second  species  is  found  in  commerce  5 
after  drying  completely  it  was  found  to  contain  44*46  per  cent,  of  organic  com- 
pounds, and  of  the  remaining  inorganic  constituents  2-26  per  cent,  were  soluble  and 
33*28  insoluble  in  water.  The  first  species,  dried,  left  34*1  per  cent,  mineral  residue 
on  incineration.  The  author  very  properly  argues  in  favor  of  dismissing  these  little 
crustaceae  from  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
Chemische  Beitrdge  zur  Pomologie,  mit  Berucksichtigung  der  liulandischen  Obstcultur. 
Von  Dr.  G.  Dragendorff.    Dorpat,  1878.    8vo,  pp.  102. 
Chemical  contributions  to  pomology,  with  reference  to  the  fruit  culture  of  Livland. 
This  is  a  very  creditable  work,  undertaken  with  the  view  of  promoting  the 
culture  of  apples  in  the  western  part  of  Russia. 
Botanischer  Congress  (Abtheilung  Chinarinden)  und  Ausstellung  pharmaceutisch 
wichtiger  Pflanzenproducte  zu  Amsterdam,  im  April,  1877.  Von  Prof.  Ed. 
Schaer  in  Zurich.    Pp.  21. 
Botanical  Congress  (section  cinchonabarks)  and  exhibition  of  pharmaceutically 
important  vegetable  products  at  Amsterdam,  April,  1877. 
We  regret  that  we  cannot  make  room  for  a  translation  of  this  interesting  essay. 
A  portion  of  the  exhibit  of  cinchonas,  we  judge,  was  the  same  that  had  been  at  the 
Centennial  Exposition  and  of  which  we  have  given  an  account  before  ("Am.  Jour. 
Phar.,"  1876,  p.  323). 
Die  Deutsch-Amerikanische  Geuuerbe-  und  Industrie-Zeitung :  Fortschritt  der  Zeit. 
The  German-American  Industrial  Gazette  :  Progress  of  the  Age.    R.  A.  Koss, 
editor.    W.  W.  Coleman,  publisher.    New  York  and  Milwaukee.  Monthly. 
Price,  75  cents  per  year. 
About  a  year  ago  the  two  German  periodicals,  the  Gazette  and  Progress  of  the 
Age,  were  consolidated,  and  since  that  time  have  appeared  under  the  united  title 
given  above.  We  believe  that  this  is  the  only  paper  covering  the  field  of  industrial 
sciences,  inventions  and  discoveries,  which  is  published  in  the  United  States  in  the 
German  language ;  and  we  notice  that  preparations  are  being  made  to  issue  it 
semi-monthly  after  a  few  months. 
