Reviews,  etc. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      Aug.,  1877. 
ence  between  physiological  and  pathological  tannins,  as  assumed  by  R.  Wagner 
(1866)  and  referred  to  by  the  author,  has,  we  think,  been  completely  disproven  by 
Dragendorff. 
The  position  of  the  author,  though  it  may  be  sustained  by  future  investigations, 
has,  in  our  opinion,  not  been  proven. 
We  may  state  yet  that,  as  far  as  we  are  aware,  gentian  and  ferric  salts  are,  in  the 
United  States,  not  considered  incompatible,  on  the  contrary,  are  frequently  pre- 
scribed together,  and  a  permanent  liquid  form,  free  from  inky  appearance  and  taste, 
the  ferrated  elixir  of  gentian,  has  been  used  here  for  more  than  ten  years. 
Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  made  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island. 
1877. 
During  the  year  1876  the  Board  examined  and  passed  seven  "  assistant  pharma- 
cists," and  of  eighteen  applicants  to  become  "registered  pharmacists"  ten  were 
granted  registration  on  the  first,  two  on  a  second  and  two  on  a  third  examination, 
and  the  remainder  were  refused. 
Proceedings  of  the  Georgia  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Second  Annual  Meet- 
ing, held  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  April,  1877.  Also,  the  Constitution,  By-Laws  and 
Roll  of  Members.    Atlanta.    8vo,  pp.  90. 
The  little  volume  before  us  speaks  well  for  the  Association  whose  proceedings 
are  recorded  therein.  Besides  the  addresses  of  President  L.  W.  Hunt  and  Messrs. 
W.  A.  Taylor  and  T.  A.  Cheatham,  we  find  an  address  by  Mr.  Th.  Schumann, 
delivered  at  the  first  annual  meeting,  in  which  the  author  advocates  proper  pharma- 
ceutical education,  argues  in  favor  of  the  pharmacist  to  be  educated  by  the  pharma- 
cist, and  urges  combined  exertion  with  the  view  of  taking  care  of  our  interests  in 
legislation. 
Of  the  papers  read  at  the  second  meeting,  one  by  Mr.  Th.  Schumann  compares 
the  various  pharmacy  laws  and  proposes  some  amendments  to  the  Georgia  law, 
while  another  dwells  on  the  effect  of  the  patent  medicine  trade  and  urges  as  the  only 
effective  remedy:  "Elevate  the  profession — educate  the  young  pharmacists  well — 
educate  them  to  the  standard."  W.  B.  Addington  describes  his  method  of  making 
phosphorus  pills  by  dissolving  the  phosphorus  in  carbon  bisulphide  before  incorpo- 
rating it.  O.  Butler  pronounces  in  favor  of  coated  over  compressed  pills,  and  claims 
sugar  as  a  coating  superior  to  gelatin.  P.  J.  Schumann  discusses  the  best  means  for 
detecting  the  various  adulterations  of  wax,  and  T.  A.  Cheatham  makes  some 
remarks  on  the  so-called  bromo-chloralum  without  solving  the  question  in  regard  to 
its  asserted  superiority  as  a  disinfectant  over  aluminium  chloride.  As  an  evidence 
of  the  commendable  spirit  of  the  Georgia  Association,  we  cannot  refrain  to  make 
room  for  the  following  protest,  which  was  adopted  and  presented  to  Hon.  Cine. 
Peeples,  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Fulton  county,  Ga. : 
"  Considering  that  Pharmacy  is  a  science  for  itself — an  independent  branch  of 
the  natural  sciences  j  considerng  that  Pharmacy  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  different 
theories  and  schools  of  medicine ;  that  a  pharmacist  ought  to  be  able  to  prepare 
medicines  of  the  mineral  or  vegetable  kingdom  in  the  proper  manner,  according  to 
