I  IO 
Reviews. 
(  Am.  Jour.  ['barm. 
I       Feb.,  1893. 
Minnesota. — The  next  meeting  will  be  held  June  13  and  14  next  at  Lake 
Minnetonka,  one  of  the  most  attractive  summer  resorts  in  the  northwest. 
Wisconsin. — On  p.  52,  January  number,  line  18  from  top,  for  Minnesota  read 
Wisconsin. 
Address  delivered  by  President  H.  M.  Whitney  at  a  meeting  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  September 
6,  7  and  8,  1892.    8vo.    Pp.  21. 
A  very  interesting  and  forcibly  written  address,  reviewing  the  work  done  by 
the  Association  and  making  some  very  pertinent  recommendations. 
A  Text-book  of  Practical  Therapeutics,  with  especial  reference  to  the  applica- 
tion of  remedial  measures  to  disease  and  their  employment  upon  a  rational  basis. 
By  Hobart  Amory  Hare,  M.D.,  B.Sc,  Professor  of  Therapeutics  and  Materia 
Medica  in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  etc.  Philadelphia  : 
Lea  Brothers  &  Co.  1892.    8vo.    Pp.  696.     Price,  cloth,  $3.75  ;  leather,  $4.75. 
A  text-book  which  necessitates  the  publication  of  three  editions  in  two 
years,  has  evidently  been  found  to  possess  qualities  which  render  it  especially 
useful  and  instructive  to  those  for  whose  use  it  has  been  intended.  The  plan 
and  scope  of  the  work  has  been  explained  before  upon  the  appearance  of  the 
two  previous  editions,  and  we  have  also  pointed  out  the  care  bestowed  upon 
the  text  so  as  to  render  its  statements  full  and  reliable.  That  in  this  new 
edition  the  same  attention  to  all  the  details  has  been  given,  more  particularly 
to  the  physiological  action,  the  therapeutic  uses  and  the  modes  of  administra- 
tion, becomes  at  once  evident  upon  comparing  the  text  with  that  of  the  pre- 
vious issues,  not  merely  by  the  addition  of  new  matter  or  recent  observations, 
but  likewise  by,  sometimes  slight,  changes  calculated  to  render  it  still  clearer 
or  more  precise.  Among  the  new  compounds  introduced  we  find  dermatol, 
diuretin,  europhen,  guaiacol,  pental,  piperazine,  strontium  salts,  terpinol  and 
thiol.  That  a  few  erroneous  or  vague  statements  relating  to  the  origin  of  some 
drugs  have  crept  in,  has  been  noticed  on  a  former  occasion  ;  this  does  not 
interfere  with  the  primary  object  of  the  book  to  provide  the  physician  or 
under-graduate  of  medicine  with  a  reliable  guide  in  the  study  of  therapeutics, 
or  the  application  of  remedial  measures  for  the  cure  of  disease. 
Con tribut ions  from  the  U.  S.  National  Herbarium.  Vol.  I,  No.  vi.  Pub- 
lished by  authority  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 
This  pamphlet  contains  a  list  of  plants  collected  by  C.  S.  Sheldon  and  M. 
A.  Carleton  in  the  Indian  Territory  in  1891,  reported  by  J.  M.  Holzinger  ;  and 
a  report  by  M.  A.  Carleton,  assistant  botanist  of  the  Kansas  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  on  the  native  plants  of  Oklahoma  and  adjacent  districts. 
Contributions  from  the  Botanical  Laboratory  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania.   8vo.    Pp.  72,  and  13  plates. 
The  first  number  of  this  serial  contains  papers  on  Rudbeckia  hirta  and  on 
Brunella  vulgaris,  by  Professor  Rothrock  ;  Dionaea  Muscipula,  by  J.  M.  Macfar- 
lane,  and  by  J.  W.  Harshberger  ;  Epigsea  repens  and  on  the  movements  of 
leaves,  by  W.  P.  Wilson  ;  and  on  Mangrove  Tannin,  by  Professor  H.  Trimble. 
An  Operation  for  the  radical  Cure  of  Stricture  of  the  Lachrymal  Duct,  with 
description  of  a  stricturotome.  By  Charles  Hermon  Thomas,  M.D.,  Phila 
delphia. 
Reprint  from  the  Ophthalmic  Review,  vol.  xi. 
