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Reviews. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1896. 
''John  H.  Long,  M.S.,  Sc.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Director  of  the 
Chemical  Laboratories  of  the  Schools  of  Medicine  and  Pharmacy  of  North- 
western University,  2421  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
"John  Ulric  Nef,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Director  of  the  Kent 
Chemical  Laboratory  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  111. 
"James  Marion  Pickel,  A.M.,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University 
of  Alabama,  University,  Ala. 
"  Paul  Schweitzer,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Agricultural  Chemistry  and  Chemist  to 
the  Agricultural  Experiment  Station,  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri, 
Columbia,  Mo. 
"  William  Simon,  Ph.D.,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  of  Baltimore,  in  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  and 
in  the  Baltimore  College  of  Dental  Surgery,  1348  Block  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 
"  Edgar  F.  Smith,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania ;  Director  of  the  John  Harrison  Laboratory  of  Chemistry  ;  President 
(for  1895)  of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
"Eugene  Allen  Smith,  Ph.D.,  State  Geologist  of  Alabama  ;  formerly  Professor 
of  Chemistry,  now  of  Mineralogy  and  Geology,  in  the  State  University  of 
Alabama,  University,  Ala. 
"  Henry  Trimble,  A.M.,  Ph.M^  Professor  of  Analytical  Chemistry  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  ;  editor  of  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy,  145  North  Tenth  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
"  Francis  Preston  Venable,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of 
North  Carolina  ;  Secretary  (for  1896)  of  the  Chemical  Section  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 
"  Gustavus  Detlef  Hinrichs,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  St.  Louis 
College  of  Pharmacy  ;  Delegate  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences,  of  Paris,  for  the 
United  States,  3132  Lafayette  Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo." 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
The  Standard  Formulary.  A  collection  of  over  four  thousand  formulas. 
By  Albert  E.  Ebert,  Ph.M.,  Ph.D.,  and  A.  Emil  Hiss,  Ph.G.  Chicago  :  G.  P. 
Engelhard  &  Co.  1896. 
The  authors  announce  in  their  introductory  that  "  pharmacists  who  possess 
formulas  of  merit  cling  to  them  with  the  greatest  tenacity,  this  being  one  feat- 
ure which  has  assisted  in  fostering  the  '  specialty '  or  proprietary  medicine  in- 
dustry— the  bane  of  pharmacy  to  day."  Nothing  will  help  to  drive  nostrums 
from  the  pharmacist's  shelves  faster  than  the  wide  distribution  of  formulas, 
except,  perhaps,  the  absence  of  profit. 
The  National  Formulary  has  done  much  to  awaken  the  pharmacist  to  the 
fact  that  he  can  compound  as  good  remedies  as  the  manufacturer.  Now,  the 
Standard  Formulary  will  advance  him  one  step  further,  and,  by  calling  various 
household  and  proprietary  remedies  by  their  right  names,  will  show  him  that 
he  may  make  the  same  and  reap  the  profit  which  belongs  to  him. 
Part  I  embraces  what  are  commonly  known  as  pharmaceutical  preparations, 
and  contains  selections  from  the  various  Pharmacopoeias,  the  Eclectic  Dispensa- 
