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Reviews. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
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remembered  it,  there  might  have  been  considerable  time  saved,  instead  of 
passing  some  similar  resolutions  this  year. 
To  revert  to  the  papers  presented  at  the  meetings  of  this  section,  it  may  be 
said  that  many  of  them  were  too  lengthy  to  be  read  there  ;  many  more  bear 
evidence  of  having  been  hastily  "dashed  off,"  and,  as  they  were  not  read  at  the 
meeting,  it  is  safe  to  predict  that  the}''  will  not  be  read  except  by  the  proof- 
reader, unless  the  before-mentioned  committee  on  publication  awakes  to  a  sense 
of  its  duty.  If  ever  there  was  an  opportunity  for  a  committee  to  do  a  credit- 
able piece  of  work  it  is  now  offered  to  that  body. 
A  very  sensible  plan  was  adopted  by  one  or  more  members,  who  answered 
several  or  all  of  the  queries  proposed  by  the  officers  of  this  section,  in  one 
paper.  Since  some  of  the  queries  could  best  be  answered  by  the  words  yes  or 
no,  and  no  labored  argument  could  do  more,  this  short  method  of  disposing  of 
them  is  to  be  commended.  The  section  adjourned  about  midnight,  after  having 
exhausted  itself  over  the  question  of  what  colleges  of  pharmacy  should  require 
of  candidates  for  the  degree  of  "  Graduate  in  Pharmacy."  Action  was  finally 
deferred  until  next  year.  It  is  hoped  that  in  the  meantime  every  member  will 
read  the  report  of  the  committee  on  Prof.  Hallberg's  resolution  on  a  similar 
subject,  which  he  offered  at  Chicago,  and  which  they  reported  negatively  at 
Asheville. 
(4)  The  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  very  properly  took  up  the  subject 
of  alcohol  taxation,  and  decided  to  submit  recommendations  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury,  that  no  alcohol  for  internal  use  should  be  free  from  tax.  This 
action  may  be  a  surprise  to  some,  but  it  was  shown  that  free  alcohol  for  medi- 
cinal use  would  chiefly  benefit  the  patent  medicine  manufacturer.  If  that  be 
true,  had  not  the  Section  better  devote  its  energies  to  getting  rid  of  the  patent 
medicine  manufacturer?  He  is  becoming  expensive.  Then,  too,  we  must  ask,, 
what  has  become  of  the  amount  of  time  and  energy  devoted  by  the  Association 
in  previous  years  to  crying  for  free  alcohol  ?  We  do  not  believe  that  free  alco- 
hol will  drive  any  honest  pharmacist  out  of  the  business,  the  dishonest  ones- 
should  go  anyhow. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
A  Text  Book  of  Practical  Therapeutics  ;  with  special  reference  to  the  applica- 
tion of  remedial  measures  to  disease  and  their  employment  upon  a  rational 
basis. 
By  Hobart  Amory  Hare,  M.D.,  B.Sc,  Professor  of  Therapeutics  and  Materia 
Medica  in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia.  Philadelphia  :  Lea 
Bros.  &  Co.,  1894,  8vo.    Pp.  740.    Price,  cloth,  $3.75  ;  leather,  $4.75. 
It  is  with  pleasure  that  we  call  the  attention  of  the  profession  to  the  fourth 
edition  of  this  valuable  work,  all  four  editions  of  which  have  been  issued  within 
four  years  of  its  first  publication.  In  addition,  its  merits  have  caused  it  to  be 
introduced  as  a  text  book  into  a  number  of  the  most  prominent  colleges  of  the 
country.  The  book  is  written  in  a  lucid  and  accurate  manner,  without  the 
excessive  use  of  technical  terms,  and  much  of  it  might  be  profitably  perused 
by  the  pharmacist.  Special  attention  is  called  to  the  article  on  "Acute  Opium 
Poisoning,"  which,  in  the  absence  of  a  physician,  the  pharmacist  is  sometimes 
