AMbitui,i872RM'}  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  477 
development  of  our  profession,  and  the  awakening  interest  of  the  public,  in  many 
parts  of  our  country,  into  pharmaceutical  affairs  demonstrates  that  the  times 
have  long  since  passed  when  manual  accomplishments  alone  could  be  considered 
sufficient  evidence  of  pharmaceutical  skill.  The  young  pharmacist  of  the  pres- 
ent day  has  no  reason  to  complain  of  a  want  of  opportunities  to  acquire  the 
theoretical  knowledge  so  essential  nowadays  for  business  success. 
Fraudulent  Quinia. — On  pages  92  and  333  of  our  last  volume,  the  fraud  of 
substituting  sulphate  of  quinia  by  muriate  of  cinchonia  was  exposed,  and  it  is 
likely  that  the  publicity  given  has  rendered  the  perpetrator  of  the  fraud  more 
cautious  than  at  first.  We  are  informed  from  Chicago  that  the  same  article 
has  made  its  appearance  there  also,  under  French  disguise,  and  our  readers 
generally  are  warned  against  purchasing  quinia  without  carefully  examining  it, 
unless  it  be  obtained  from  the  manufacturers  direct.  Who  has  committed  that 
fraud?  and  who  deals  in  that  article  ? 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Cooley's  Cyclopaedia  of  Practical  Receipts  and  Collateral  Information  in  the 
Arts,  Manufactures,  Professions  and  Trades  ^  including  Medicine,  Pharmacy 
and  Domestic  Economy  ;  designed  as  a  Comprehensive  Supplement  to  the 
Pharmacopoeia,  and  General  Book  of  Reference  for  the  Manufacturer,  Trades- 
man, Amateur,  and  Heads  of  Families.  Fifth  edition.  Revised  and  partly 
re-written  by  Richard  Y.  Tuson,  F.C.S.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Royal 
Veterinary  College,  &c.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston.  1872.  8vo? 
1201  pages,  double  column.    Price,  bound  in  cloth,  $12. 
That  this  work  is  a  useful  one  may  be  judged  from  the  editions  through  which 
it  has  passed  ;  that  fault  may  be  found  with  it  may  be  judged  from  the  title  and 
the  size  of  the  work.  Perhaps  its  scope  is  too  extended  for  the  size,  or  its 
size  too  small  for  its  scope,  as  indicated  in  the  title,  and  the  desire  not  to  ex- 
tend it  too  much  necessitated  that  some  of  the  less  important  articles  had  to 
be  left  out  in  order  to  make  room  for  the  new  discoveries.  This  pruning  does 
not,  as  far  as  we  have  observed,  detract  from  the  value  of  the  work  as  a  book 
of  reference  ;  but  occasionally  a  reference  has  been  retained  which  ought  to 
have  been  dropped,  like  others  allied  to  it.  Thus  we  find,  on  page  8,  Acerale 
Syn.  Aceras.  See  Aceric  acid.  The  latter,  however,  is  not  found  either  under 
the  heads  of  Acid,  Acer,  or  Maple. 
The  references  retained  are  occasionally  incorrect.  We  find,  on  page  324, 
Cheltenham  Salts.  See  Salts.  But  the  heading,  Salts,  Cheltenham,  of  the  older 
editions  has  been  dropped,  and  reference  ought  to  have  been  made  directly  to 
Waters,  mineral,  p.  1168. 
Articles  intended  to  have  been  introduced  have,  perhaps,  sometimes  been 
inadvertently  omitted,  like  Adeps  benzoatus,  on  page  29,  for  which  merely  the 
synonym  benzoated  lard  is  given ;  but  the  process  of  benzoinating  is  neither 
described  under  the  letter  B  nor  L. 
Occasionally  we  miss  processes  for  the  preparation  of  compounds,  as  for  an- 
hydrous acetic  acid  (p.  16),  and  for  polygalic  acid  (p.  1036), — and  descriptions 
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