Am.  Jour  Pharm.  ) 
April,  1884.  J 
Revieivs,  etc. 
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syrup  of  tolu,  syrup  of  squill,  spirit  of  camphor,  number  six,  spirit  of  nitre, 
compound  cathartic  pills,  quinine  pills  and  "other  similar  preparations." 
The  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  law  is  declared  to  be  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  involves  a  fine  of  not  exceeding  $50  for  each  offence,  such 
fine  not  to  affect  the  right  to  bring  civil  actions  ;  the  fines  are  to  be  placed 
in  the  county  treasury  for  the  benefit  of  the  common  school  fund. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  Fifth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Missouri  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  held  at  St.  Louis,  October  23d  to  25th,  1883.  8vo. 
pp.  57. 
A  brief  account  of  the  transactions  at  this  meeting  was  published  in 
11  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,"  1883,  p.  633.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in 
Brownsville,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  June. 
Bericht  iiber  Pharm  aceutische  Produkte,  inch,  kiinslliche  Miner alwasser. 
Von  Prof.  Ed.  Schaer.    Zurich,  1883.    8vo,  pp.  39. 
Report  on  Pharmaceutical  Products,  including  Artificial  Mineral  Waters. 
At  the  Swiss  national  exhibition  held  hist  year,  the  crude  drugs  and  the 
preparations  used  in  medicine  were  classed  among  two  different  groups. 
Without  entering  into  a  description  of  the  crude  articles,  Prof.  Schaer 
gives  a  full  and  interesting  report  on  the  various  products,  which  he  classi- 
fies as  follows : 
1.  Pharmaceutico-chemical  preparations,  like  salts  of  metals  and  alka- 
loids, tartrates,  benzoates,  ethers,  etc. 
2.  Galenical  preparations,  like  syrups,  tinctures,  extracts,  ointments, 
powders,  etc.,  al.-o  fluid  extracts,  which  are  beginning  to  be  used  on  the 
continent  of  Europe.  Among  the  plants  which  are  almost  unknown  here, 
and  of  which  various  preparations  were  shown,  may  be  mentioned  Den- 
taria  pinnata,  Myrrhis  odorata  and  Achillea  moschata,  or  iva. 
3.  New  forms  and  so-called  elegant  preparations,  like  dosimetric  granules, 
rectal  and  vaginal  suppositories,  bougies,  medicinal  pencils,  compressed 
tablettes.  gelatin  and  other  capsules,  etc. 
4.  Artificial  mineral  waters  in  syphons  and  bottles,  and 
5.  Dietetic-medicinal  preparations,  mainly  milk-sugar,  lactin  and  extracts 
of  malt;  the  latter,  aside  from  those  which  are  medicated  with  quinine, 
iron,  etc.,  are  prepared  of  two  kinds,  namely,  the  ordinary  kind,  which  is 
free  from  diastase,  and  lor  special  purposes,  particularly  in  the  treatment 
of  children,  an  extract  containing  diastase. 
The  report  contains  much  valuable  information  on  this  branch  of  the 
industry  of  Switzerland,  and  occasionally  some  pertinent  remarks  on  the 
claims  of  the  products  exhibited. 
International  Review  of  Medical  and  Surgical  TeohnUis.  Official  organ  of 
the  American  Association  of  the  Red  Cross.  Published  quarterly. 
Boston,  Mass.  :  International  Medical  Exchange. 
