C  T  O  Rpnipnus  \ Am- Jour-  Pbarm. 
JXeviecVS.  \     October,  1900. 
trations,  including  photo-engravings,  colored  plates  and  tables  for 
estimating  total  solids  from  specific  gravity,  chlorides,  phosphates, 
sulphates,  albumen,  reaction  of  proteids,  sugar,  etc.,  in  urine.  6x9 
inches.  Pages  xvi-406.  Extra  cloth,  $3  net.  F.  A.  Davis  Com- 
pany,  publishers,  1914-16  Cherry  Street,  Philadelphia. 
In  addition  to  the  present  edition  being  a  revision  of  the  fourth 
edition,  it  contains  a  new  chapter  on  the  microscope  and  its  use  in 
urinalysis,  and  the  author  has  extended  the  range  of  centrifugal 
analysis  so  that  it  includes  more  complete  as  well  as  practical  data 
for  urinary  work.  The  chemical  portion  of  the  work  has  been 
carefully  revised,  a  few  quantitative  methods  have  been  added  where 
previously  omitted,  and  nearly  the  whole  subject  of  testing  albu- 
men in  the  urine  has  been  rewritten. 
This  may  be  said  to  be  one  of  the  most  valuable  practical  works  on 
urinalysis,and  while  of  peculiar  interest  to  the  physician,  it  ought  to  be 
in  the  hands  of  those  pharmacists  who  conduct  analyses  of  this  nature. 
The  relation  of  the  chemistry  of  the  urine  to  physiological  processes 
and  pathological  facts  is  prominently  set  forth,  so  that  in  dealing  with 
normal  urine  each  constituent  is  considered  as  follows  :  Its  chemical 
nature  and  composition;  its  source  in  the  economy  ;  the  significance 
of  its  increase  or  decrease  in  the  urine,  with  the  relations  of  these 
to  metabolic  processes,  food  supply,  physical  surroundings,  and 
tendency  toward  disease ;  and,  finally,  the  most  approved  methods 
of  its  detection  and  determination  have  been  described.  In  consid- 
ering the  morbid  constituents  in  abnormal  urine,  their  chemi- 
cal nature  and  composition,  source  in  the  economy,  chemical  sig- 
nificance of  appearance  in  the  urine,  the  most  approved  methods 
of  detection  and  determination  are  described.  A  valuable  chapter 
on  the  subject  of  urinary  examinations  for  life  insurance  is  added. 
CoeeEGE  Announcements. — The  following  announcements  have  been  re- 
ceived :  Albany  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  Brooklyn  College  of  Pharmacy, 
California  College  of  Pharmacy,  Cleveland  School  of  Pharmacy,  Illinois  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  Minnesota  University 
School  of  Pharmacy,  Ontario  College  of  Pharmacy,  St.  Iyouis  College  of  Phar- 
macy, Vanderbilt  University,  Department  of  Pharmacy. 
The  following  changes  are  announced  in  the  Buffalo  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
Edward  J.  Kiepe,  formerly  Instructor  in  Materia  Medica,  has  been  elected 
Professor  of  that  branch  ;  Albert  P.  Sy  has  been  elected  Instructor  in  Chemis- 
try, and  Willett  H.  Mosher  returns  as  Instructor  in  Pharmacal  Assaying. 
