Am.  Jour.  Pharro. 
June,  1914. 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
277 
Medical  Association,  is  a  selected  list  of  important  drugs  suggested 
for  the  use  of  teachers  of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics  and  to 
serve  as  a  basis  for  the  examination  in  therapeutics  by  State  Medical 
Examining  and  Licensing  Boards.  The  great  aim  of  the  compilation 
is  to  eliminate  the  mass  of  useless  or  superfluous  drugs  now  in  books 
on  materia  medica;  it  concerns  products  whose  fixed  value  is  gen- 
erally recognized,  and,  therefore,  it  is  particularly  fitted  to  serve 
as  a  text  on  which  teachers  of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics  may 
base  their  instruction.  *rhe  properties,  pharmacological  action,  ther- 
apeutic uses,  and  dosage  of  drugs  are  discussed  concisely  and  in  a 
practical  manner.  The  methods  of  administration  have  received 
special  attention,  and  there  are  occasional  suggestions  as  to  choice 
of  a  vehicle  which  will  be  of  service  to  beginners  in  prescription 
writing.  There  is  a  table  of  solubilities  of  the  medicaments  in  cold 
water  and  in  cold  alcohol,  a  pharmacological  index,  and  a  general 
index.  The  book  may  be  studied  profitably  by  the  pharmacists  and 
medical  men  of  this  country. — Pharm.  J.,  19 14,  vol.  92,  p.  278. 
Digest  of  Comments. — A  book  review  of  Hygienic  Laboratory 
Bulletin  No.  87,  including  the  Digest  of  Comments  on  the  Pharma- 
copoeia of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  on  the  National  For- 
mulary, for  the  Calendar  year  191 1,  says  in  part:  "  This  volume  is 
a  rich  source  of  references  to  articles  in  various  journals  and  bulle- 
tins dealing  in  any  way  to  the  substances  contained  in  the  American 
Pharmacopoeia,  and  places  the  user  in  position  to  readily  find  the 
original  references  in  which  he  may  be  interested.  The  book  is  a 
model  of  compilation,  such  as  one  would  expect  from  an  international 
pharmacopceial  secretariat." — Pharm.  Weekblad,  1914,  vol.  51,  pp. 
238,  239. 
The  Era  Formulary. — Compilations  of  recipes  for  various  objects 
and  purposes  have  long  been  of  interest  to  the  retail  druggist,  and  few 
stores  in  which  the  ordinary  miscellaneous  drug  business  is  done  can 
be  profitably  conducted  without  one  or  more  books  of  this  type. 
The  new  Era  Formulary  just  published  presents  a  collection  of  nearly 
8000  formulas  gathered  from  recognized  authorities.  The  nine 
divisions  of  the  volume  include  unofficial  .pharmaceutical  prepara- 
tions, toilet  preparations,  veterinary  remedies,  household  remedies, 
paints,  beverages,  and  miscellaneous  preparations  frequently  called 
for  by  the  customers  of  a  live  retail  drug  store.  The  material  was 
compiled  by  William  C.  Alpers  and  Ezra  J.  Kennedy,  and  the  book 
as  published  covers  521  large  8vo  double-column  pages,  including  an 
