Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
Mar.,  1877.  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
143 
popular  English  names  are  not  given,  as  in  the  case  of  tinctura  rhois  radicantis, 
which  is  translated  tincture  rhois  radicans  5  instead  tincture  of  poison  sumach, 
poison  vine,  or  poison  oak. 
Generally,  the  Latin  names  are  those  adopted  by  the  "  German  Pharmacopoeia, " 
or  as  met  with  in  German  pharmacy.  We  find  chininum,  chinidinum,  etc.,  but  not 
quinia  or  quinidia ;  kali  aceticum,  chloricum,  etc.,  but  not  potassii  acetas,  chloras, 
etc.  ;  and  thus  we  find  expressed  the  aim  of  the  work  to  be  a  dictionary  of  the 
pharmaceutical  and  chemical  terms  as  used  by  German  physicians  and  pharmacists, 
and  in  this  respect  it  is  very  complete.  In  our  examination  we  have  not  found 
missing  any  of  the  important  synonyms,  even  of  older  date,  which  are  occasionally 
employed  in  prescriptions,  or  met  with  in  medical  and  pharmaceutical  works.  The 
work  will  be  found  a  valuable  hand-book,  and  of  great  service  to  pharmacists, 
druggists  and  physicians. 
The  American  Medical  Association  and  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of 
America.  By  Edward  R.  Squibb,  M.D.  Brooklyn,  1877.  8vo,  pp.  59. 
The  pamphlet  consists  of  extracts  from  the  minutes  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  the  Kings  County 
Medical  Society,  of  an  account  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  New  York  College  of 
Pharmacy,  and  of  a  proposed  plan  for  the  future  management  of  the  "  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia,"  to  be  submitted  to  the  American  Medical  Association  at  its 
annual  meeting  in  Chicago,  in  June,  1877.  It  is  especially  addressed  to  those 
bodies  which  were  represented  in  the  national  convention  for  revising  the  "  Phar- 
macopoeia," and  which  are  represented  in  the  American  Medical  and  in  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association.  The  plan  proposes  such  a  radical  change  that 
it  is  eminently  desirable  that  the  various  bodies  alluded  to  should  take  it  into  care- 
ful consideration  and  act  officially  upon  the  suggestions. 
The  Vermont  Medical  Register  for  the  year  1877.    Edited  by  Chas.  P.  Thayer, 
M.D.    Burlington,  1877.    i2mo,  pp.  120. 
Lists  of  physicians,  dentists,  druggists  and  dealers  in  drugs  and  nurses,  also  lists 
of  the  educational,  medical,  dental  and  pharmaceutical  institutions  in  the  United 
States  and  of  the  charitable  institutions  of  Vermont  are  found  in  this  little  book, 
together  with  laws  of  that  State,  relating  to  various  sanitary,  etc.,  matters,  and 
other  information  of  interest  to  the  physician  and  pharmacist.  Among  the  phar- 
maceutical institutions  enumerated,  we  find  two  formerly  connected  with  medical 
colleges,  which  have  been  discontinued  since  the  establishment  of  a  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  Washington  5  at  least  two  in  which  lectures  have  never  been  delivered, 
and  two  or  three  which  are  of  equivocal  existence,  while  on  the  other  hand  the 
second  oldest  College  of  Pharmacy  in  the  United  States,  that  of  New  York,  has 
been  omitted. 
Emmons''  Annual  Medical  Directory  oj  Regular  Physicians  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  for 
the  year  1877.    Chicago:    F.  A.  Emmons,  M.D.     i2mo,  109  pages. 
This  Register  is  arranged  alphabetically  by  towns  and  by  the  names  of  the 
physicians,  and  contains  also  a  list  of  the  U.  S.  Pension  Examining  Surgeons  in 
Illinois. 
