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BOOK  REVIEWS. 
The  Practice  of  Pharmacy:  A  Treatise  on  the  Modes  of 
Making  and  Dispensing  Official,  Unofficial,  and  Extem- 
poraneous Preparations,  with  Descriptions  of  Medicinal 
Substances,  Their  Properties,  Uses,  and  Doses.  A  Hand- 
book for  Pharmacists  and  Physicians  and  a  Text-book  for  Students. 
Sixth  Edition.  By  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Ph.M.,  Phar.D.,  F.C.S., 
assisted  by  E.  Fullerton  Cook,  P.D.  With  over  Eight  Hundred 
Illustrations.  Publishers,  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  Philadelphia 
and  London.  Vols.  I  and  II,  Regular  Cloth  Binding,  each  $4.50 
net    One  Volume  complete,  bound  in  Buckram,  $8.00  net. 
The  sixth  edition  of  this  master  work  on  pharmacy  in  the  Eng- 
lish language  was  necessitated  by  the  publication  of  the  Ninth 
Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  Fourth  Edi- 
tion of  the  National  Formulary.  All  of  the  important  statements 
in  these  two  national  legal  standards  for  drugs  have  been  incor- 
porated in  the  volume  now  before  us.  The  attempt  to  produce  a 
work  on  pharmacy  that  would  be  up  to  date  and  comprehensive 
in  evidenced  throughout  its  pages.  The  preeminent  ability  and  long 
experience  as  a  teacher  enabled  the  author  to  present  in  his  char- 
acteristic clear  and  logical  style  the  subject-matter  in  an  interesting 
and  inviting  manner  in  this  instructive  book. 
In  this  edition,  the  arrangement  follows  closely  that  of  the 
previous  editions.  The  "  Introductory "  in  rather  terse  language 
presents  pharmaceutical  terms,  definitions  and  explanations  of  the 
authority  of  pharmacopoeias,  formularies  and  the  several  com- 
mentaries on  these ;  but  the  very  clarity  of  the  statements  invites 
the  careful  perusal  of  the  student.  Metrology  rightly  receives 
early  and  a  clear  exposition  in  the  pages  of  the  book.  This  knowl- 
edge so  essential  to  the  practice  of  either  medicine  or  pharmacy 
and  which,  too  frequently,  has  proven  a  perplexing  stumbling  block 
to  the  student,  is  here  so  presented  that  the  student  who  masters 
this  chapter  cannot  fail  to  have  a  clear  conception  and  understand- 
ing of  the  subject. 
The  tabulations  of  the  various  classes  of  galenicals  and  of  the 
drug  and  chemical  products  is  a  feature  that  has  been  very  generally 
adopted  by  teachers  of  pharmacy  since  the  early  works  of  Procter 
and  Parrish  and  is  extensively  used  in  this  edition.  These  bird-eye 
views  of  subjects  as  shown  in  very  many  of  the  chapters  will 
