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Reviews,  etc.— Obituary . 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      July,  1876. 
Prescription  Writing,  designed  for  the  use  of  medical  students  who  have  never  studied 
Latin.  By  Fr.  H.  Gerrish,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics 
in  the  Medical  School  of  Maine.  Second  edition.  Portland,  Me.  :  Loring,  Short 
&  Harmon.  1878.  i6mo,  pp.  51. 
This  little  work  is  intended  to  instruct  not  in  the  art  of  prescribing,  but  in  the 
proper  construction  of  prescriptions  in  Latin.  With  this  end  in  view,  it  gives  some 
simple  rules,  and  afterwards  some  classified  lists  of  words  used  in  prescriptions, 
intended  to  aid  those  who  are  ignorant  of  Latin  to  avoid  mistakes  which  are  bad 
enough  in  written  prescriptions,  but  infinitely  worse  when  printed.  We  commend 
the  little  book  to  physicians  and  apothecaries  who  desire  to  improve  in  the  correct 
writing  and  reading  of  perscriptions 
The  following  pamphlets  have  been  received  : 
Fluid  Extracts  by  Repercolation.  By  E.  R.  Squibb,  M.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Reprinted 
from  the  "Am.  Jour.  Phar.,"  May,  1878,  with  additions  by  the  author.    Pp.  43. 
Studien  uber  die  Zusammensetzung  des  Holies.    Inaugural-Dissertation  von  Arthur 
Stackmann.    Dorpat,  1878.     8vo,  pp.  60. 
Researches  on  the  Composition  of  Wood. 
Is  Modem  Education  Exerting  an  Evil  Influence  upon  the  Eyesight  of  our  children  ? 
By  A.  W.  Calhoun,  M  D.,  Professor,  etc.,  Atlanta  Medical  College.    Pp.  18. 
Is  Phthisis  Pulmonalis  Contagious,  and  does  it  belong  to  the  Zymotic  Group  ?    By  W. 
H.  Webb,  M.D  ,  Philadelphia.  Pp.38. 
A  Nenv  Treatment  of  Skin  Diseases.    By  Meigs  Case,  M.D  ,  Oneonta,  N.  Y.  Pp.  8. 
Fifty  fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Managers  or  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum,  Utica,  N.  T., 
for  1877.  Pp.  96. 
Lithotomy.    A  tabulated  statement  of  cases  with   considerations,  etc.    By  David 
Prince,  M.D.,  Jacksonville,  111. 
Laparo- Elytrotomy,  a  substitute  for  the  caesarean  section.    By  T.  Gaillard  Thomas, 
M.D.,  New  York.    Pp.  25. 
The  Intro-njenous  Injection  of  Milk  as  a  substitute  for  the  Transfusion  of  Blood.  By 
T.  Gaillard  Thomas,  M.D.,  New  York.    Pp.  19. 
The  Vest-Pocket  Anatomist  (founded  upon  Gray).    By  C.  Henri  Leonard,  A.M., 
M.D.,  Detroit     i6mo,  pp.  60. 
Eulogy  upon  Lunsford  P.  Yandell,  M.D.    By  Theo.  S.  Bell,  M.D.,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Pp.  22.   
OBITUARY. 
Felix  Henri  Boudet  died  at  Paris  April  6th,  having  nearly  completed  his  72d 
year.  He  was  born  in  the  same  city  May  22d,  1806,  became  a  pharmacist,  and  in 
1833  received  the  diplomas  of  Doctor  of  Sciences  and  of  Pharmacy.  In  competing 
for  the  first  one  of  these  degrees,  he  had  instituted  researches  and  wrote  a  thesis  "  on 
the  action  of  hyponitric  acid  upon  the  oils,"  in  which  he  pointed  out  the  difference 
in  its  behavior  to  the  drying  and  non-drying  oils.  Soon  afterwards,  he  took  charge 
of  his  father's  ofHcine,  which  he  sold  in  1849  to  Edmond  Robiquet,  and  henceforth 
devoted  all  his  time  to  scientific  researches.  He  was  a  member  of  the  most  promi- 
nent scientific  bodies  of  France,  and  in  1852  was  appointed  to  the  Conseil  d'hygiene 
et  de  salubrite  of  Paris.  Of  his  numerous  scientific  memoirs  many  have  been  noticed 
in  this  journal,  notably  several  on  strictly  pharmaceutical  subjects,  which  were 
published  about  30  years  ago. 
