220  Comments  on  Magendies  Formulary,  j^™-  ■^*Airii!Y92o'. 
chemistry,  or  pharmacy;  and  by  giving  medical  men  every  facility 
in  submitting  them  to  personal  experience,  which  is  frequently, 
after  all,  the  only  truly  profitable  course. 
"I  shall  feel  extremely  grateful  for  any  critical  or  other  remarks 
appertaining  to  the  substances  treated  of  in  this  work.  To  those  of 
my  medical  brethren  who  may  be  kind  enough  to  address  them  to  me, 
I  return  my  thanks  beforehand;  and  I  shall  hasten  to  turn  them  to 
the  improvement  of  science,  by  inserting  them  in  the  next  edition." 
The  book  itself  is  a  small  duodecimo  volume  printed  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1824.    It  consists  of  268  pages. 
The  principal  portion  or  about  two-thirds  of  the  book  concerns 
itself  with  the  detailed  consideration  of  the  "New  Remedies"  men- 
tioned in  the  title,  an  enumeration  of  which  will  be  interesting,  each 
of  the  following  subjects  being  accorded  a  separate  section  or  chap- 
ter: 
Morphine  Veratrine 
Narcotine  Hydrocyanic  Acid 
Extract  of  Opium  deprived  of  Narcotine  Solanine 
Extract  of  Opium  deprived  of  Morphine  Atropine 
Iodine  Daturine 
Resin  of  the  Nux  Vomica  Hyoscyamine 
Strychnine  Delphinine 
Emetine  Picrotoxine 
Pure  Emetine  Gentianine 
Cytisine  Lupuline 
Cinchonine  and  Quinine  Brucine 
Esculine 
There  is  also  given  in  this  portion  of  the  book  a  posological  table 
and  a  table  of  preparations  and  their  strengths  in  active  principle. 
There  are  three  appendices  to  the  book :  Number  one,  containing 
a  list  of  preparations  and  their  compounds.  Appendix  number  two 
concerns  itself  with  poisons  of  mineral,  vegetable  and  animal  nature. 
Appendix  number  three  is  devoted  to  the  **Art  of  Prescribing," 
with  numerous  detailed  examples  of  prescriptions  for  various  kinds 
of  symptoms  and  diseases.    An  index  completes  the  book. 
Before  commenting  upon  any  of  the  details  of  the  book  in  a 
systematic  manner  it  may  be  well  to  make  some  general  observa- 
tions. 
One  of  the  first  things  to  attract  the  attention  as  one  scans  the  book 
