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Reviews. 
A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1893. 
pus  just  mentioned,  could  yield  products  so  widely  different  as  are 
kino  on  the  one  side  and  true  dragon's  blood  on  the  other.  In  the 
careful  monograph  of  dragon's  blood  by  Lojander,  Beitrage  zur 
Kenntniss  der  Drachenblutes  "  Strassburg,  1887,  the  author  only 
mentioned  briefly  the  drug  of  Pterocarpus  Draco,  which  he  had  not 
at  his  command. 
We  may  anticipate  that  it  rather  belongs  to  the  numerous  class 
of  kinos,  the  exudations  of  several  species  of  eucalyptus,  as  well  as 
of  Pterocarpus  Marsupium  and  other  trees.  Whether  they  are 
chemically  identical  or  not,  remains  to  be  studied. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Reactions. — A  Selection  of  Organic  Chemical  Preparations,  important  to 
Pharmacy  in  regard  to  their  Behavior  to  commonly  used  Reagents.  By  F.  A. 
Fliickiger,  Ph.D.,  M.D.  Translated,  revised  and  enlarged  by  J.  B.  Nagelvoort. 
George  S.  Davis,  Detroit,  Mich.    Svo.    Pp.  154.    Price,  cloth,  $2.00. 
This  excellent  work  describes  reactions  of  a  large  number  of  organic  pre- 
parations, natural  as  well  as  artificial,  and  can  well  be  recommended  to  all 
pharmacists  and  pharmaceutical  chemists.  In  the  work  before  us  we  find  not 
only  the  older  well-known  reactions,  but  quite  a  number  of  new  ones. 
The  book  furthermore  contains,  as  a  frontispiece,  a  portrait  of  Prof.  Fliicki- 
ger, and  the  fac-simile  of  a  letter  to  the  translator. 
Pharmacographia  Indica. — A  History  of  the  Principal  Drugs  of  Vegetable 
Origin  met  with  in  India.  By  Wm.  Dymock,  Brigade  Surgeon,  retired,  etc. 
C.  J.  H.  Warden,  Surgeon  Major  Bengal  army,  etc.,  and  David  Hooper,  Ouinolo- 
gist  to  the  Government  of  Madras,  Ootacamund.  London  :  Kegan,  Paul, 
French,  Trubner  &  Co.,  Ltd.    1893.    Part  vi,  p.  313-642. 
Since  the  publication  of  part  5  of  this  valuable  work,  one  of  the  authors, 
Dr.  Wm.  Dymock,  has  died,  and  this,  part  vi,  is  fittingly.opened  by  a  eulogy 
of  this  scientist.  This  part  is  the  second  half  of  the  third  volume  of  the  work) 
and  comprises  the  remainder  of  the  monochlamydeous,  and  the  apetalous  orders 
of  the  dicotyledons,  the  gymnosperms,  the  monocotyledons,  filices,  lichenes, 
fungi  and  algse.  Of  the  plants  used  in  North  America  as  well  as  in  India 
mention  might  be  made  of  Cannabis  Sativa,  leaves,  tops  and  resin,  collected 
all  from  the  female  plant,  "which  the  natives  consider  to  be  the  male  plant, 
because  it  bears  the  seed."  Ficns  Carica,  fig,  is  now  cultivated  in  India  by 
Mohammedans  and  Hindus  ;  other  species  of  Ficus  are  used  medicinally. 
Antiaris  toxicaria,  upas  tree,  has  the  poisonous  qualities  only  in  the  male 
plant.  Galls  of  Quercus  infectoria  ;  Juniper  berries  ;  Taxus  baccata  ;  Curcuma 
zedoaria;  Indian  arrowroot  obtained  from  Curcuma  angustifolia,  C.  leucorrhiza, 
C.  montana,  C.  longa,  C.  aromatica,  C.  rubescens,  and  Hitchenia  caulina ; 
Curcuma  long  a  ;  Zingiber  officinale  ;  Elettaria  Cardamomum  ;  Alpinia  offici- 
narum  is  a  stomachic  tonic,  and  is  used  by  native  Indian  practitioners  to  reduce 
the  quantity  of  urine  in  diabetes ;  Crocus  sativus ;  Aloe  is  used  by  Moham- 
