414 
Reviews,  etc. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
1       Aug.,  1885. 
tended  list,  prepared  by  Mr.  Wilder  with  his  noted  care.  The  list  enumer- 
ates 870  tests,  which  are  in  most  cases  briefly  described,  sufficiently  so  for 
application  ;  in  those  cases  requiring  lengthy  details,  references  are  given 
to  American  or  English  publications,  where  these  details  may  be  found. 
A  full  index  by  subjects  enhances  the  usefulness  of  the  little  work,  which 
is  of  particular  value  to  the  readers  of  chemical  literature  in  which  refer- 
ence to  such  tests  is  frequently  made.  We  have  carefully  examined  a  large 
number  of  the  quotations  and  found  the  statements  to  be  correct.  The 
author  of  the  nitroprus.side  of  copper  tests  for  volatile  oils  is  G.  S.  Heppe, 
who  recommended  it  in  1855  for  the  detection  of  adulterations  of  oxygen- 
ated oils  with  oil  of  turpentine  and  similar  hydrocarbons,  these  adultera- 
tions preventing  the  color  reactions  of  the  oxygenated  oils  with  the  reagent; 
the  statement  under  No.  334,  while  essentially'  correct,  we  think  should  be 
modified  by  adding  the  behavior  of  oil  of  turpentine. 
An  Outline  of  a  Course  of  Study  in  Practical  Pharmacij.  By  Oscar  Old- 
berg,  Pilar.  D.,  Professor  of  the  theory  and  practice  of  pharmacy,  and 
director  of  the  pliarmaceutical  laboratory  of  the  Chicago  College  of  Phar- 
macy.   Published  by  the  author,  1885.    12  mo,  pp.  104. 
This  little  work  covers  the  ground  pretty  thoroughly,  giving  the  skeleton 
of  an  extended  course  in  practical  pharmacy,  in  which  nothing  seems  to 
have  been  omitted,  that  may  tend  to  familiarize  the  student  with  his  work  ; 
but  on  the  contrary  he  is  frequently  led  to  study  the  same  subject  from  dif- 
ferent views,  as  may  be  seen,  for  instance,  from  the  tables  giving  a  classifi- 
cation of  drugs  according  to  their. constituents,  or  from  the  enumeration  of 
preparations  made  by  various  processes.  The  contents  of  the  work  may  be 
briefly  summarized  as  follows:  Introductory  portion,  relating  to  legisla- 
tion, education,  pharmacopoeias  and  metrology  ;  manipulations;  inorganic 
chemistry  ;  organic  chemistry  ;  organic  drugs  and  their  constituents ;  phar- 
maceutical preparations  ;  extemporaneous  pharmacy  and  finally  laboratory 
work.  The  book  is  almost  entirely  suggestive,  the  more  important  points 
relating  to  each  subject  being  merely  indicated,  so  as  to  show  the  student 
the  direction  which  his  studies  should  take.  For  those  who  do  not  attend 
lectures,  the  author  has  indicated  in  the  preface  the  order  in  which  the 
experimental  illustrations  may  be  combined  with  a  course  of  studying  from 
books. 
Proceedings  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  College  of  Phar- 
macy for  the  years  1883  and  1884;  also  Proceedings  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation.   San  Francisco  :  1885.    8 vo,  pp.  133. 
This  contains  a  number  of  papers  and  abstracts  of  theses,  to  the  more  im- 
j^ortant  of  which  we  shall  refer  in  another  place. 
Twenty-first  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises 
of  the  64th  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  for 
the  year  1884-85.    8vo,  pp.  188. 
The  frontispiece  consists  of  a  well-executed  phototype  of  Edward  C. 
Jones,  who  was  one  of  the  projectors  of  the  Alumni  Association,  has  served 
as  its  treasurer  for  17  years,  and  has  always  been  untiring  in  efforts  to  pro- 
moteits  usefulness.  As  usual,  the  volume  contains  the  minutes  of  meetings, 
and  the  various  addresses  and  lectures  delivered  during  the  past  year. 
