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Book  Reviews. 
{Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
January,  1914. 
ments,  and  chemical  formulas  and  therapeutic  properties  are  given. 
A  striking  feature  is  the  prominence  which  must  be  taken  by 
the  products  of  large  well-known  manufacturing  houses  who  are 
making  a  mighty  good  thing  out  of  the  credulity  of  the  public  with 
no  regard  to  the  ethics  of  the  profession. 
A.  K.  Lobeck. 
ARBEITEN  AUS  DEM  Ph ARM AZEUTISCHEN  INSTITUT  DER  UnIVER- 
sitat  Berlin,  by  H.  Thorns,  v.  10,  including  the  work  of  the  year 
191 2,  Urban  &  Schwarzenberg,  Berlin,  Wien,  191 3,  220  pages,  with 
two  illustrations. 
This  volume  like  the  ones  preceding  it  reflects  the  work  done  in 
the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  of  the  University  of  Berlin,  by  Prof. 
Thorns  and  his  associates,  and  includes  a  total  of  35  contributions, 
under  five  general  headings:  1,  Contributions  from  the  division  for 
the  examination  of  drugs,  specialties  and  secret  remedies ;  2,  reports 
on  organic  chemical  work ;  3,  microchemical  work ;  4,  reports  from 
the  division  for  the  examination  of  foods  and  technical  products  of 
the  Colonies ;  5,  general  discussion.  The  whole  is  followed  by  an 
index  of  four  double  column  pages.  The  first  section  of  the  book 
includes  a  systematic  review  of  the  new  remedies  introduced  during 
the  year  191 2,  and  reports  the  analytical  examination  of  a  number 
of  proprietary  preparations.  The  phytochemical  work  reported  in 
this  volume  includes  observations  on  the  production  of  menthol  in 
Germany  and  in  the  German  Colonies,  and  an  examination  of  the 
seed  of  Strychnos  kongofera  for  strychnine.  Lenz  discusses  the  pro- 
duction and  use  of  microchemical  reagents  in  a  paper  covering  eight 
pages,  and  Thorns,  in  a  very  comprehensive  paper,  reviews  the 
problems  of  pharmaceutical  education  in  Germany  and  other 
European  countries. 
Altogether  the  volume  is  well  up  to  the  high  standard  that  has 
been  established  by  those  preceding  it  and  the  renewed  energy  with 
which  the  work  on  so-called  new  remedies  is  being  prosecuted  bodes 
well  for  the  general  progress  of  pharmacy  along  satisfactory  lines. 
M.  I.  W. 
ARBEITEN  AUS  DEM  Ph  ARM  AZEUTISCHEN  INSTITUT  DER  UNIVER- 
sitat  Berlin,  herausgegeben  von,  Prof.  Dr.  H.  Thorns. 
This  publication,  the  tenth  annual  volume,  consisting  of  220 
pages,  presents  a  record  of  the  work  accomplished  during  1912  at 
