348 
Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  .Tour.  Pharm. 
June,  1884. 
Practical  Hints  and  Formulas  for  Busy  Druggists.  Original,  contributed, 
and  compiled.  By  Benjamin  Lillard.  Vol.  I,  Part  I.  New  York  :  J. 
H.  Vail  &  Co.,  1884.    8vo,  pp.  80,  interleaved.    Price  $1. 
The  book  contains  a  large  number  of  formulas  and  practical  hints,  many 
of  them  contributed  by  well-known  writers.  It  would  be  difficult  to  con- 
trive any  sort  of  system  for  their  arrangement,  but  a  full  index  facilitates 
the  use.  The  blank  leaves  serve  for  the  preservation  of  additional  matter, 
and  blank  space  is  left  in  the  index  for  recording  the  additional  titles. 
New  York  and  Brooklyn  Formulary  of  Unofficinal  Preparations.  Pub- 
lished by  a  joint  committee  of  delegates  from  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of 
New  York,  the  New  York  German  Apothecaries'  Society,  and  the  Kings 
County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
This  is  a  collection  of  81  formulas  of  so-called  elegant  preparations,  mostly 
elixirs,  but  comprising  also  emulsions,  spirits,  syrups,  etc.,  for  which  phar- 
macopoeial  formulas  were  not  adopted  owing  to  their  ephemeral  or  ques- 
tionable value,  and  which  are  still  more  or  less  prescribed.  The  three 
societies  mentioned  above  have  done  a  commendable  work  in  a  direction, 
which  in  a  still  broader  form  we  have  advocated  from  time  to  time  for 
years.  This  example  should  be  followed  by  other  localities  and  might  well 
be  extended  so  as  to  comprise  in  addition  to  non-pharmacopoeial  elegant 
preparations,  intended  for  taking  the  place  of  similar  articles  manufactured 
on  the  large  scale,  also  compounds  for  domestic  remedies,  which  might  be 
offered  and  recommended  in  the  place  of  the  numerous  secret  medicines. 
The  Joint  Committee  appeal  to  the  medical  fraternity  to  abstain  hereafter 
from  designating  the  maker's  name  of  any  preparation  for  which  they  offer 
a  formula.  The  little  work  will  be  sold  at  a  mere  nominal  price,  to  cover 
the  cost  of  printing  it,  and  may  be  obtained  by  addressing  the  New  York 
College  of  Pharmacy. 
Pharmacopoeia  Germanica,  Editio  altera  (The  German  Pharmacopoeia. 
Second  edition,  which  by  authority  of  the  Federal  Council  replaces  the 
first  edition  on  January  1,  1883.  Translated  by  C.  L.  Lochman.  New 
York:  J.  H.  Vail  &  Co.,  1884.  Pp.  295.  Philadelphia:  D.  Phreaner. 
Price  S2.50. 
A  little  over  ten  years  ago  we  noticed  the  English  translation  by  M.  Loch- 
man of  the  first  German  Pharmacopoeia, and  now  we  have  before  us  the  trans- 
lation of  the  second  edition,  the  original  of  which  was  noticed  in  "Amer. 
Jour.  Phar.,"  1882,  p.  639.  It  will  be  remembered  that  it  appeared  simul- 
taneously with  the  new  United  States  Pharmacopoeia.  Our  readers  are 
familiar  with  the  nature  and  scope  of  the  work,  more  especially  with  the 
Galenical  Preparations,  the  formulas  for  which  we  have  published  and 
compared  with  those  of  the  U.  S.  P.  in  the  Journal  for  1883.  The  volume 
now  before  us  is  a  faithful  translation,  and  contains  also  the  English  syno- 
nyms and  in  most  cases  the  titles  of  the  corresponding  preparations  of  the 
U.  S.  P.,  which  synonyms,  however,  refer  to  the  names  only,  but  in  the 
large  majority  of  the  preparations  not  to  identity  in  strength.  As  far  as 
we  have  examined  this  work,  we  have  observed  only  few  typographical 
errors,  and  one  mistake  in  placing  the  German  name  "  Aetherische  Eisen- 
chloridtinctur  "  to  the  tincture  preceding  Tinctura  ferri  chlorati  aetherea, 
to  which  latter  it  properly  belongs. 
