202  Book  Reviews.  {^™-  ^^'^rcKioTo. 
Profe:ssor  Youngken,  Contributing  Editor  to  Botanical 
Abstracts. — Prof.  Heber  W.  Youngken,  head  of  the  Department  of 
Botany  and  Pharmacognosy  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
has  recently  accepted  the  invitation  to  assume  charge  of  the  Sec- 
tion on  Pharmaceutical  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy  of  the  important 
compilation  being  published  as  Botanical  Abstracts. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
The  Eleventh  Edition  of  the  The  American  Pocket  Medical 
Dictionary  containing  the  pronunciation  and  definition  of  all  the 
principal  terms  used  in  Medicine,  Surgery,  Dentistry,  Veterinary 
Medicine,  Nursing  and  kindred  sciences;  with  over  sixty  extensive 
tables;  edited  by  W.  A.  Newman  Dorland,  A.M.,  M.D.,  has  just 
appeared. 
This  volume,  though  handy  in  size,  contains  717  pages.  The 
alphabetical  arrangement  of  words  is  in  heavy  type,  with  definitions 
in  lighter  type,  facilitating  usage.  The  vocabulary,  arranged  al- 
phabetically and  comprising  682  pages,  contains  practically  all  of  the 
modern  medical  terms.  The  definitions,  although  necessarily  brief, 
are  quite  lucid. 
Many  tables  have  been  added  under  their  respective  headings 
which  correlates  much  information  at  a  moment's  glance.  A  table 
of  doses  in  both  the  Apothecaries'  and  Metric  Systems,  embracing 
34  pages,  concludes  the  volume. 
The  spelling  of  the  Alkaloids  seems  to  lack  the  final  "e"  as 
Strychnin,  Morphin,  Cocain,  Codein,  etc.,  while  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  gives  the  spelling  for  these  Alkaloids  with  the  final 
"e." 
The  book,  aside  from  this,  takes  its  place  as  a  good  Pocket 
Medical  Dictionary,  especially  for  the  medical  student. 
Mitchell  Bernstein,  M.D. 
Proceedings  Eighth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American 
Drug  Manufacturers'  Association. — ^The  proceedings  of  the 
eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Drug  Manufacturers'  Asso- 
ciation, held  at  the  Waldorf  Astoria  Hotel,  New  York,  March  24-27, 
1 91 9,  in  book  form  has  now  been  distributed.  The  initial  statement 
of  the  ''Forewoid"  that  "Between  the  covers  of  the  book  you  now 
