Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Aug.,  1893. 
Reviews. 
415 
The  National  College  of  Pharmacy  held  its  commencement  exercises  on 
Wednesday  evening,  May  10,  in  Metzerott's  Music  Hall,  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  graduates,  ten  in  number,  were  addressed  by  the  Rev.  A.  G.  Rogers. 
The  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy  held  its  commencement  exercises  on 
Tuesday  afternoon,  July  11,  1893,  in  Harris  Theatre,  Louisville,  Ky.  The 
degree  of  Ph.G.  was  conferred  on  fourteen  graduates. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
A  Practical  Treatise  on  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics,  with  Especial 
Reference  to  the  Clinical  Application  of  Drugs.  By  John  V.  Shoemaker,  A.M., 
M.D.,  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacology,  Therapeutics,  and  Clinical 
Medicine,  and  Clinical  Professor  of  Diseases  of  the  Skin  in  the  Medico- 
Chirurgical  College  of  Philadelphia,  etc.  Second  Edition.  Revised.  In  two 
royal  octavo  volumes.  Volume  I,  353  pages  ;  devoted  to  Pharmacy,  General 
Pharmacology,  and  Therapeutics  and  Remedial  Agents  not  Properly  Classed 
with  Drugs.  Volume  II,  680  pages  :  An  Independent  Volume  upon  Drugs. 
Volume  I,  in  Cloth,  $2.50  net ;  Sheep,  $3.25  net.  Volume  II,  in  Cloth,  $3.50  net ; 
Sheep,  $4.50,  net.    Philadelphia  :  The  F.  A.  Davis  Company,  Publishers. 
The  first  volume  is  divided  into  two  parts  of  which  the  first  is  entitled 
"  Pharmaceutical  Remedies  or  Drugs, "  and  contains  information  on  the  Pharma- 
copoeia, its  nomenclature,  classes  of  preparations,  etc.;  on  pharmaceutical 
manipulations  ;  on  prescription-writing  ;  a  syllabus  on  poisons  and  their  anti- 
dotes, and  an  exposition  on  the  classification  of  medicines.  Part  II  treats  of 
those  remedies  and  expedients  in  medicines,  which  are  not  classed  with  drugs 
or  pharmaceutical  preparations,  such  as  electricity,  massage,  heat,  cold,  diet, 
etc.  The  scope  and  arrangement  of  the  second  volume  of  this  work  has  been 
fully  described  in  our  volume  for  1891  (p.  320).  In  the  second  edition,  now 
before  us,  the  introductory  portion,  relating  to  the  classification  of  medicines, 
has  been  omitted,  since  this  properly  belongs  to,  and  is  contained  in,  the  first 
volume.  The  drugs  and  chemicals,  as  heretofore,  are  considered  in  alpha- 
betical order.  Some  of  the  articles,  like  antipyrin  and  tuberculin,  have  been 
entirely  rewritten.  New  articles  have  been  added,  like  phenocoll,  thallin  and 
xanthium  ;  but  most  of  the  new  articles,  including  most  of  the  synthetical 
remedies,  have  found  a  place  in  the  appendix,  to  which  also  some  drugs  have 
been  removed,  which  were  formerly  in  the  general  list,  like  apocynum,  areca, 
■bryony  and  vanilla. 
The  work  has  been  written  and  revised  by  a  physician  for  the  use  of  physi- 
cians, who  will  find  it  of  much  service  and  to  be  readily  consulted,  each 
volume  being  provided  with  a  general  index  and  a  clinical  index,  all  bearing 
evidence  of  the  care  bestowed  upon  their  preparation. 
On  the  Prevention  of  Blindness.  Addressed  to  physicians,  nurses  and  mid- 
wives. 
Circular  35  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Board  of  Health  treats  of  ophthalmia  of 
the  new  born,  and  the  means  to  prevent  it.  The  circulars  may  be  obtained  by 
application  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Board,  1532  Pine  Street,  Philadelphia, 
.enclosing  a  2  cents  (or  for  the  entire  series  4  cts.)  postage  stamp. 
