96 
Obituary. 
{Am.  Jour.  Phabm. 
Feb.  1, 1874. 
Ammonii  Benzoas,  Pepsinum, 
Bismuthi  et  Ammonii  Citras,  Santoninum, 
Chloral,  Zinci  Sulphocarbolas. 
Some  of  the  old  and  little-used  recipes  have  been  dismissed,  and  where  the 
authorities  have  seen  fit  to  alter  the  titles  of  some  of  the  articles,  it  was  neces- 
sary to  revise  them  and  classify  under  their  proper  names. 
The  book  as  it  now  appears  is  a  large  octavo,  of  800  pages,  printed  on  good 
paper  and  in  clear  type. 
The  feature  which  at  once  attracts  the  practical  eye  in  the  Formulary  itself 
is  the  admirable  manner  in  which  useful  information  is  condensed  in  the  form 
of  head  notes  to  the  subjects.  The  tables  also  form  important  points  of  value, 
prominent  among  which  may  be  mentioned — Equivalents  in  Troy  and  Avoir- 
dupois Weights,  Hydrometrical  Equivalents,  and  Pharmaceutical  Names.  The 
chapter  on  Officinal  Preparations  and  Directions  is  full  of  profitable  sugges- 
tions, collated  from  the  best  works. 
The  labor  of  revising  about  5000  formulas  is  not  a  small  one,  and  it  would 
not  be  surprising  if  a  few  errors  or  omissions  should  creep,  in.  One  that  occurs 
to  us  just  now,  and  which  existed  in  the  former  editions,  is  that  sometimes  in  a 
compound  recipe  the  formula  of  one  of  the  preparations  which  enters  into  it  is 
not  given  in  the  book,  and  is  not  readily  found  in  the  books  generally  at  com. 
mand.  As  an  example  we  instance  syrup  of  mallows,  on  pages  253  and  271. 
And  in  the  Index  of  Diseases  and  Eemedies,  cod-liver  oil  is  omitted  under  the 
head  Phthisis. 
The  young  practitioner  will  find  the  work  invaluable  in  suggesting  eligible 
modes  of  administering  many  remedies,  and  the  scope  is  so  large  that  in  most 
instances  a  choice  to  suit  special  cases  can  easily  be  made.  The  pharmacist 
will  find  that  it  well  fills  a  niche  in  his  library  amongst  his  well-worn  and  tried 
friends,  whether  he  wishes  to  make  either  the  veteran  preparations,  or  particu- 
larly if  he  receives  an  unexpected  call  for  Saviard's  Lotion,  Yicat's  Anodyne 
Mixture,  or  Stahl's  Pills,  or  something  out  of  the  usual  way. 
J.  P.  Remington. 
OBITUARY. 
S.  W.  Butler,  M.D.,  for  many  years  editor  of  the  "Medical  and  Surgical 
Reporter,"  died  in  this  city  January  6th,  after  a  lingering  attack  of  phthisis 
pulmonalis,  in  the  fifty-first  year  of  his  life.  The  deceased  was  born  at  May- 
nard,  East  Tennessee,  where  his  father  labored  as  physician  and  missionary 
among  the  Cherokee  Indians.  "When  he  graduated,  in  1850,  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  the  subject  of  his  thesis  was  Hydrangea  arborescens,  the 
value  of  which  in  calculous  complaints  has  since  been  attested  by  many  prac- 
titioners. For  about  twenty-three  years,  since  1854  as  its  proprietor,  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  "  Medical  and  Surgical  Reporter,"  which  in  1858  he 
removed  from  Burlington,  N.  J.,  to  Philadelphia,  and  at  which  he  labored,, 
until  within  a  short  period  before  his  death,  for  the  last  seven  years  having 
been  assisted  by  Dr.  D.  G.  Brinton. 
