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called  upon  to  treat.  The  condition  of  the  patient  is  very  accurately  described, 
and  the  treatment  from  the  personal  knowledge  of  the  writer  is  very  effectual. 
Other  articles  of  much  general  interest  are  those  on  Antiseptics,  Cold  and  Heat 
as  Remedies,  and  Foods  for  the  Sick.  Among  the  new  remedies  mentioned 
are  Chloralose,  Condurango,  Convallarin,  Duboisine,  Pyoktanin  (Methyl  Blue), 
and  Pyrogallol  (Pyrogallic  Acid).  Pyoktanin  is  stated  to  be  of  some  value  in 
surgery  of  the  eye,  but  valueless  as  an  antiseptic  in  general  surgery. 
Several  of  the  aniline  dyes  have  been  sold  under  this  name,  but  it  would  be 
better,  as  the  author  has  done,  to  confine  the  name  to  methyl  violet.  In  view 
of  the  fact  that  many  of  the  headache  powders  on  the  market  consist  mainly  of 
Acetanilid,  attention  is  called  to  the  article  on  that  subject,  in  which  it  is  stated 
that  in  some  cases  alarming  symptoms  have  been  produced  by  moderate  doses 
(3-ro  grs.),  and  in  two  cases  death  from  excessive  dosage.  C.  B.  L,. 
Chemistry,  General,  Medical  and  Pharmaceutical ;  including  the  chemistry 
of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia. 
By  John  Attfield,  M.A.,  Ph.D.,  F.I.C.,  F.C.S.,  F.R.S.,  etc.,  Professor  of 
Practical  Chemistry  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain.  Four- 
teenth edition,  specially  revised  by  the  author  for  America,  to  accord  with  the 
new  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia.  In  one  royal  i2mo  volume  of  794  pages,  with  88 
illustrations.    Philadelphia:  Lea  Bros.  &  Co.,  1894. 
The  present  edition  corresponds  to  the  concurrently  produced  fifteenth 
British  edition.  It  is  probably  the  first  pharmaceutical  chemistry  to  appear  since 
the  issue  of  the  new  Pharmacopoeia,  and  will  be  especially  welcome  on  that 
account. 
The  author  has  found  it  necessary  to  add  much  new  matter,  and  wherever 
possible  he  has  eliminated  some  of  the  old,  in  order  to  keep  the  book  within 
the  limits  of  a  student's  manual. 
There  is  much  to  be  commended  in  this  work  of  Prof.  Attfield.  While  the 
arrangement  of  the  material  is  not  all  that  could  be  desired,  yet  we  believe 
there  is  no  book  on  chemistry  printed  that  contains  so  much  valuable  matter 
condensed  into  such  small  space. 
The  Journal.  Published  quarterly  by  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Cincin- 
nati College  of  Pharmacy. 
This  new  accession  to  the  ranks  of  pharmaceutical  journals  is  to  be  devoted 
to  "Pharmacy,  Botany,  Microscopy,  Materia  Medica,  Chemistry,  and  to  Phar- 
maceutical Education  and  Progress." 
The  Journal  Board  of  Managers  are  C.  T.  P.  Fennel,  Julius  H.  Eichberg  and 
Theodore  Wetterstroem. 
The  first  number  takes  a  high  standard,  and  we  trust  that  the  succeeding 
ones  will  be  able  to  maintain  this  standard. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
MEETING  AT  ASHEVIIyEE,  N.  C,  SEPTEMBER  3~IO,  1894. 
Gefteral  Sessions. — The  first  session  was  opened  by  an  address  of  welcome 
by  Mayor  Patton,  on  behalf  of  the  City  of  Asheville.  This  was  replied  to  by 
L,eo  Fliel,  the  First  Vice-President  of  the  Association.  The  President,  Edgar 
L.  Patch,  of  Boston,  then  read  his  annual  address. 
