Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
June  1885.  / 
Revieivs,  etc. 
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tioDed  the  number  of  students  at  the  University  lias  increased  from  560, 
including  146  medical  and  35  pharmaceutical  students,  in  the  beginning  of 
1865,  to  1,595,  including  671  medical  and  120  pharmaceutical  students  at  the 
close  of  1884.  During  the  same  period  the  number  of  laboratory  students 
has  increased  from  72  in  1865  to  380  in  1884,  and  in  connection  with  this 
increase  it  should  be  mentioned,  that  it  is  largely  due  to  medical  students 
making  use  of  the  opportunities  afforded  at  this  laboratory;  for  while  in 
1867  there  were  34  medical  and  57  pharmaceutical  students,  or  a  proportion 
of  100 :  168  working  in  the  laboratory,  the  numbers  in  1884  were  225  medi- 
cal and  105  pharmaceutical  students,  the  proportion  being  100  :  47.  The 
l^amphlet  gives  also  accounts  of  the  growth  of  the  collections,  the  arrange- 
ment of  the  laboratory  and  of  the  work  done  therein  and  contains  the  titles 
of  278  books,  pamphlets  and  essays,  jjublished  during  that  time  by  the 
director  and  his  pupils,  the  investigations  for  nearly  the  whole  numl)er 
having  been  made  in  the  laboratory  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute. 
Neue  Ideen.    Von  Mr.  Ad  VomAcka.    Leitmeritz,  1885. 
New  Ideas. 
The  object  of  this  little  pamphlet,  which  is  a  continuation  of  a  larger  one 
entitled  "  Handverkaufs-Artikel,"  is  to  furnish  formulas  for  new  prejDa- 
rations  and  specialties  making  their  appearance,  and  thus  to  enable  the 
pharmacist  to  supply  his  own  products  to  his  customers,  for  which  purpose 
suitable  labels  have  been  prepared  by  the  author,  and  these  may  be  pro- 
cured in  case  the  sales  do  not  warrant  the  expense  incidental  to  the  design- 
ing and  printing  of  distinct  labels.  All  plans  aiming  at  making  the  phar- 
macist the  purveyor  of  his  own  products,  instead  of  the  products  of  others, 
deserve  commendation. 
Massage,  the  latest  handmaid  of  medicine.  By  Ben j.  Lee,  A.M.,  M.D., 
Ph.D.  From  Transactions  of  the  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania.   Pp.  12. 
A  clinical  illustration  of  the  value  of  combining  motion  with  extension  in  the 
treatment  of  diseasefi  of  the  hi^j  joint.  By  Benj.  Lee,  M.D.,  etc.  From 
the  same  Transactions. 
The  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  skin  by  novel  means  and  methods.  By 
John  V.  Shoemaker,  A.M.,  M.D.,  etc.  Bead  before  the  International 
Medical  Congress  at  Copenhagen,  August  12,  1884. 
Cumberland  Almanac  for  1885.  Issued  as  a  supplement  to  the  Nashville 
"Journal  of  Medicine  and  Surgery,"  1885. 
The  advertising  sheet  of  this  Almanac  praises  a  number  of  nostrums. 
TAiiTAKALiNE,  as  sold  by  grocers  in  Great  Britain,  was  found  by  P. 
MacEwan  to  be  acid  potassium  sulphate.  Subsequently  Mich.  Conroy  met 
with  cream  of  tartaraline,  a  mixture  of  the  former  salt  and  potato  starch, 
the  latter  having  evidently  been  added  with  the  view  of  reducing  the 
strongly  acid  salt  to  a  strength  about  equal  to  that  of  cream  of  tartar. — 
Phar.  Jour,  and  Trans.,  November,  29,  1884,  p.  434. 
