AseJP°tTOi,i87A4!M'}     Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  447 
organic  medicaments  are  considered  upon  one  hundred  and  sixty  pages,  in  four 
chapters,  as  organic  acids,  vegetable  alkalies,  salts  and  neutral  bodies. 
Part  II  of  the  work  is  entitled  "Medicaments  of  complex  and  often  little 
■definite  chemical  composition."  It  opens  with  well-written  remarks  upon  the 
•choice,  collection,  drying  and  conservation  of  drugs,  which  are  followed  by  the 
galenical  preparations,  grouped  together  as  follows :  Simple  (animal  and  vege- 
table) and  compound  powders  ;  pulps;  juices  (animal  juices  ==  animal  fats,  wax, 
milk,  honey  ;  and  vegetable  juices,  comprising  the  various  vegetable  exudations, 
fats  and  volatile  oils);  species  (especes),  a  form  of  preparations  but  little  used 
in  this  country ;  medicaments  prepared  with  water,  comprising  infusions,  de- 
coctions, mucilages,  distilled  waters,  aqueous  extracts,  syrups,  honeys,  electu- 
aries, pastes,  conserves,  jellies,  troches,  draughts,  emulsions,  gargles,  injections, 
•collyria,  lotions,  baths,  cataplasms,  &c. ;  medicaments  prepared  with  alcohol 
(spirits,  tinctures  and  alcoholic  extracts) ;  medicaments  prepared  with  glyce- 
rin, ethrr,  fats,  essences,  wine,  vinegar  and  beer;  pills;  capsules;  liniments; 
fumigations. 
Although  in  some  instances  objection  may  be  made  as  to  the  correctness  of 
the  classification  adopted  by  the  author,  yet  it  will  be  found  that  the  arrange- 
ment, once  understood,  is  quite  convenient,  so  that  the  work  may  be  readily 
consulted  with  convenience,  which  is  increased  by  a  good  index. 
We  regard  the  woik  as  a  good  exposition  of  pharmacy  as  practiced  in  France, 
and  find  its  scientific  information  up  to  the  time  of  publication.  It  will  prove 
of  great  value  to  those  of  our  readers  who  desire  to  familiarize  themselves 
with  French  pharmacy,  or  who  are  in  localities  where  they  have  occasion  to 
put  up  the  prescriptions  of  French  physicians,  since  it  contains  not  only  the 
preparations  officinal  in  the  Paris  Codex,  but  likewise  those  unofficinal  ones 
which  are  used  to  some  extent  in  France. 
The  book  is  handsomely  printed,  upon  good  paper,  and  is  illustrated  with  120 
well-executed  cuts. 
The  Hot  Springs  as  they  are.    A  history  and  guide.    By  Charles  Cutter. 
Little  Rock,  Ark. :  W.  H.  Windsor,  Printer,  1874.    8vo,  pp.  88. 
This  pamphlet  aims  to  show  the  advantages  of  the  Hot  Springs  of  Arkansas, 
and  to  give  such  information  as  will  be  interesting  and  valuable  to  the  tourist, 
as  well  as  to  the  invalid  visiting  the  springs  for  tbe  recovery  of  his  health. 
The  Student's  Guide  to  Materia  Medica  in  Accordance  with  the  latest  issue  of 
the  British  Pharmacopoeia.  By  John  C.  Thorogood,  M.  D.,  Lond.,  Lecturer 
on  Materia  Medica  at  the  Middlesex  Hospital.    Philadelphia:  Lindsay  & 
[   Blakiston,  1874.    f.  cap.  8vo,  pp.  318. 
Intended  as  a  supplement  to  the  Pharmacopoeia  in  the  student's  hand,  the 
object  of  the  little  volume  is  mainly  to  give  an  account  of  the  chemical  com- 
position of  medicines,  and  of  their  effects  and  uses,  and  to  explain  briefly  the 
chemistry  of  the  various  processes  and  of  the  reactions  which  occur  in  applying 
tests.    The  work  is  divided  into  two  parts,  Part  I  being  entitled  "  Inorganic 
