Am.  Jour.  Plwm.l  Ohitunvv  tif 
Feb.,  1893.       /  UOllUliry.         .  Ill 
Report  of  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  Army  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1892.  Washington:  Government  Printing  Office. 
8vo.    Pp.  126  and  13  plates. 
The  report  gives  a  full  account  of  the  work  done  under  the  direction  of  the 
Surgeon-General  and  of  the  health  of  the  military  departments  and  of  the  various 
posts.  Of  particular  interest  to  pharmacists  are  those  portions  of  the  report 
relating  to  hospital  stewards  and  to  the  hospital  corps,  the  latter  organized  for 
the  twofold  purpose  of  always  having  on  hand,  for  any  emergency,  a  trained 
body  of  sanitary  soldiers,  and  of  building  up  a  training  school  through  which,, 
ultimately,  all  enlisted  men  of  the  hospital  corps  will  pass.  The  plates  are 
illustrations  of  field  equipment,  such  as  ambulance,  emergency  case,  medicine 
chest,  food  chest,  field  furniture,  equipment  of  the  hospital  corps,  etc. 
A  Study  of  the  Comparative  Actions  of  Antipyrine,  Phenacetin  and  Phenocoll 
on  the  circulation  and  heat  phenomena.  By  David  Cerna,  M.D.,  Ph.D.,  etc., 
and  William  S.  Carter,  M.D.,  etc. 
The  essay  is  the  result  of  researches  made  in  the  physiological  laboratory 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Ueber  Salophen  und  dessen  therapeutische  Verzuendung.  Von  Dr.  Josef 
Frolich.    8vo.    Pp.  18. 
On  salophen  and  its  therapeutic  uses.  Reprint  from  "  Wiener  Medizinische 
Wochenschrift."  The  author,  who  made  his  observations  in  the  Vienna  Gen- 
eral Hospital,  considers  salophen  preferable  in  acute  rheumatic  arthritis  to 
sodium  salicylate  and  to  salol,  owing  to  its  tastelessness,  and  because  its 
use  may  be  prolonged  without  producing  unpleasant  effects. 
Trional  als  Hypnoticum.    Von  Dr.  A.  Boettiger.    Pp.  13. 
Trional  as  a  hypnotic.    Reprint  from  "  Berliner  klinische  Wochenschrift."" 
The  observations  were  made  in  Prof.  Hitzig's  clinic  at  Halle. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor  fean  Lkon  Soubeiran  died  at  Montpellier,  France,  December  15,. 
1892,  at  the  age  of  65  years.  He  was  born  in  Paris,  November  27,  1827,  and 
received  his  scientific  training  at  the  Pharmacy  School  in  the  same  city,  where 
his  father  Eugene  Soubeiran  was  professor  of  pharmacy.  The  deceased 
graduated  from  this  school  in  1853  and  ^54,  the  subjects  of  his  theses  on 
these  occasions  being  "  micrographic  studies  on  some  starches,"  and  "  on  the 
application  of  botany  in  pharmacy."  He  devoted  much  attention  to  botany, 
zoology  and  geology,  and  to  natural  sciences  in  general,  but  particularly 
to  materia  medica.  In  former  years,  he  wrote  valuable  essays  on  cinchona 
bark,  rhubarb,  mastic,  catechu,  isinglass,  cod  liver  oil,  etc.,  and  was  the 
author  of  a  creditable  work  on  falsifications  and  alterations  of  alimentary  and 
medicinal  substances  and  other  products.  In  1873,  ne  was  called  to  the  chair 
of  pharmacy  in  the  ecole  superieure  connected  with  the  Montpellier  Universitv, 
which  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also  for  many  years 
a  member  of  the  committee  entrusted  with  the  publication  of  the  Journal  de 
Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie.  The  scientific  labors  of  the  deceased  were  valued  at 
•home  and  abroad,  and  he  was  elected  correspondent  or  honorary  member  by 
