624  Editorial— Reviews,  etc.  {Am£™J%rm° 
time  afterwards  requested  to  still  more  dilute  the  medicine,  because  it  <was  too 
powerful. 
Correction  Our  readers  will  please  correct  the  words  "4  parts  "  and  "  30  parts/' 
on  page  513,  lines  3  and  4,  to  4  times  as  much  and  30  times  as  much  cold  njoater. 
I 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Transactions  of  the  International  Medical  Congress  of  Philadelphia.  1876.  Edited 
for  the  Congress  by  John  Ashhurst,  Jr.,  A.M.,  M.D.,  etc.  Philadelphia':  printed 
for  the  Congress.    1877.    Large  8vo,  pp.  1200. 
This  stately  volume  is  mainly  occupied  by  the  addresses  delivered  before  the 
Congress  and  the  papers  read  and  discussions  had  before  the  sections.  The 
remaining  portion  is  taken  up  by  historical  notes  on  the  preliminary  arrangements, 
the  minutes  and  lists  of  officers  of  the  Congress  and  of  its  nine  sections,  and  of  the 
delegates  and  invited  members.  The  Congress  convened  Sept.  4,  1876,  and  held  daily 
sessions  until  Sept.  9,  when  it  adjourned.  The  volume  proves  that  a  large  amount 
of  valuable  work  has  been  performed  on  that  occasion. 
A  Guide  to  Therapeutics  and  Materia  Medica.  By  Rob.  Farquharson,  M.D.,  Edin., 
etc.  Enlarged  and  adapted  to  the  U.  S  Pharmacopoeia.  By  Frank  Woodbury, 
M.D.    Philadelphia:  Henry  C.  Lea,  1877.    i2mo,  pp.  410. 
The  alphabetical  arrangement  adopted  in  this  work  will  be  found  quite  conve- 
nient. Under  each  heading  the  different  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  preparations 
are  enumerated  together  with  their  relative  strength  and  doses,  and  their  physiolo- 
gical and  therapeutical  action  arranged  in  columns  in  a  diagrammatic  form  ;  for 
poisonous  substances  the  proper  antidotes  are  also  given.  The  introductory  chapter 
is  devoted  to  "  General  rules  for  prescribes." 
In  preparing  the  work  for  the  use  of  the  American  practitioner,  the  editor  has 
very  properly  adapted  it  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  a  labor  which  appears  to  have 
been  very  well  performed,  and  which  will  be  appreciated  by  those  who  use  the 
handy  volume. 
Materia  Medica  for  the  Use  of  Students.  By  John  B.  Biddle,  M.  D.,  Professor  in 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College.  Eighth  edition.  Revised  and  enlarged,  with 
numerous  illustrations.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1878.  8vo,  pp.  46a. 
Price,  cloth,  $4. 
We  have  on  former  occasions  noticed  some  of  the  preceding  editions  of 
this  work,  which  appears  to  be  very  useful  for  the  medical  student,  and  has  been 
revised  so  as  to  include  all  the  new  medicinal  agents  of  any  importance  which  have 
found  favor  in  the  United  States.  In  looking  over  the  volume  we  find  its  statements 
generally  correct ;  among  the  oversights  we  mention  that  the  water  of  crystalliza- 
tion has  been  omitted  in  the  formula  Na2COa  for  crystallized  carbonate  of  sodium, 
and  that  the  typographical  error  of  some  or  the  earlier  volumes  of  the  last  Pharma- 
copoeia is  again  reproduced  upon  p.  104,  where  Spiritus  Chloroformi  is  stated  to  be 
a  solution  of  a  troyounce  of  chloroform  in  twelve  fluidounces  of  diluted  alcohol. 
