Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
Dec,  1884.  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
653 
Whether  the  Campion  plan  or  any  other  plan  devised  with  a  view  of 
keeping  up  the  profit  from  the  retailing  of  patent  medicines  be  successful 
or  not,  we  repeat  that  the  latter,  if  their  sale  be  confined  to  conscientious 
and  discreet  pharmacists,  could  be  stripped  of  much  of  the  harm,  which 
their  unrestricted  use  is  sure  to  produce.  But  a  professional  benefit  will 
never  be  derived  from  the  handling  of  nostrums;  it  is  sure  to  follow,  how- 
ever, if  pharmacists  will  again  turn  their  attention  to  producing  that  which 
they  should  produce,  viz.,  all  pharmaceutical  preparations  and  as  many 
chemicals  as  their  facilities  will  admit  of. 
Monument  to  the  Memory  of  Jean  Baptiste  Dumas. — A  committee 
has  been  organized  in  Paris  in  the  Palais  de  l'lnstitut  de  France,  with  the 
object  of  collecting  contributions  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  statue  of 
Dumas  in  Alais,  his  native  town.  M.  Pasteur  has  been  chosen  president, 
and  among  the  members  are  the  venerable  Chevreul,  H.  Milne-Edwards, 
Boussingault  and  many  others  whose  names  are  well  known  in  science. 
The  committee  has  also  members  in  most  European  and  in  three  American 
countries,  those  for  the  United  States  being  Prof.  Gibbs  and  Crafts. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Der  Kaffee  in  seinen  Beziehungen  zum,  Leben.    Fur  Haus  und  Familie 
und  fur  Oebildete  alter  Stande  gesehildert  von  Dr.  H.  Bohnke-Reich 
Berlin  und  Leipzig  :  Fr.  Thiel,  1884.    8vo,  pp.  224. 
We  have  noticed  the  first  edition  of  this  work  in  the  Journal  for  1875r 
page  575,  and  have  given  there  a  brief  synopsis  of  the  contents  of  that 
pamphlet  which  contained  sixty-five  pages  of  text.  The  one  now  before 
us  has  grown  to  nearly  four  times  the  original  size,  and  may  be  regarded  as 
a  well-performed  amplification  of  the  original  sketch,  combining  the  inte- 
rest of  the  latter  with  entertaining  and  often  humorous  descriptions,  narra- 
tives and  quotations  from  old  and  new  authors,  among  them,  for  instance, 
Mark  Twain's  account  of  the  manner  in  which  the  beverage  is  prepared 
and  served  in  Germany.  But  the  little  work  is  not  only  entertaining,  it  is 
also  instructive,  and  there  is  scarcely  a  detail  connected  with  the  com- 
mercial or  scientific  history  of  coffee,  which  is  not  more  or  less  fully  dis- 
cussed in  this  monograph.  While  it  deserves  to  be  read  by  cultivated  per- 
sons in  general,  its  appearance  at  the  present  time  is  particularly  opportune, 
since  two  centuries  have  passed  since  the  introduction  of  coffee  in  Western 
Europe,  which  occurred  m  England  after  1650,  in  Vienna  in  1685,  in 
Begensburg  in  1686,  etc. 
The  Proceedings  of  the  following  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  have 
been  received  : 
Indiana.  Held  in  Evansville,  May  13-15,  pp.  191.  Next  meeting  at  In- 
dianapolis, on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May.  Secretary,  J.  R.  Perry,  Indian- 
apolis. 
Kentucky.    Held  in  Louisville,  May  21,  22,  pp.  99.    Next  meeting  at 
