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and  animal  bodies,  has  been  materially  augmented  of  late  years,  and  greater 
precision  has  been  secured  for  distinguishing  them.  In  order  to  study  these 
intelligently  the  student  should  possess  a  th  rough  knowledge  of  the  ele- 
ments of  general  chemistry,  and  practical  acquaintance  with  analytical 
work.  Thus  prepared  he  will  be  enabled  to  profitably  pursue  the  course  of 
experimental  work  which  the  author  has  mapped  out  in  the  book  with 
continual  references  to  the  subject  matter  treated  of  elsewhere. 
The  work  is  diyided  into  four  parts,  the  first  treating  of  nutrition  and 
foods.  It  opens  with  brief  descriptions  of  apparatus,  reagents  and  pro- 
cesses, and  then  considers  nutrition  and  the  various  classes  of  foods.  The 
second  partis  devoted  to  digestion  and  the  secretions  concerned  therein, 
comprising  the  saliva,  gastric,  pancreatic  and  intestinal  juices  and  bile. 
The  third  part  discusses  the  tissues  and  remaining  secretions,  including 
blood  and  its  constituents  with  derivatives,  milk,  the  various  organs,  etc.  ; 
and  the  fourth  part  relates  to  the  excreta,  faeces  and  urine,  the  latter 
being  treated  with  considerable  detail,  on  account  cf  its  importance  from  a 
physiological  and  pathological  point  of  view  ;  about  one  fourth  of  the  book 
is  devoted  to  the  normal  and  abnormal  constituents  of  urine  and  to  its 
analysis. 
In  the  foregoing  we  have  given  merely  the  roughest  outline  of  the  con- 
tents of  the  work.  We  cannot  enter  into  details,  and  merely  state  here 
that  the  descriptions  are  clear  and  the  leading  characters  judiciously  put 
forth.  Everywhere  the  evidence  is  apparent  that  the  author  not  only 
knows  what  he  is  writing  about,  but  also  has  consulted  the  literature  of  the 
subjects.  Primarily  intended  for  the  use  of  the  medical  student  and  the 
physician,  the  work  is  nevertheless  almost  entirely  an  important  one  for 
the  progressive  pharmacist,  who  is  acquainted  with  or  desires  further 
information  on  the  analysis  of  urine,  calculi,  milk,  blood  and  other  animal 
substances.  The  illustrations  of  apparatus,  crystalline  deposits  and  of 
microscopical  drawings  are  good,  and  the  plate  giving  the  absorption 
spectra  of  six  derivatives  of  blood  has  been  handsomely  executed. 
Manual  of  Chemistry.  A  guide  to  lectures  and  laboratory  work  for 
beginners  in  chemistry ;  a  text-book,  specially  adapted  for  students  of 
pharmacy  and  medicine.  By  W.  Simon,  Ph.D.,  M.D.,  Professor  of 
Chemistiyand  Toxicology  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
and  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Analytical  Chemistry  in  the  Maryland 
College  of  Pharmacy,  Baltimore.  With  16  illustrations  on  wood  and  7 
colored  plates.  Philadelphia :  Henry  C.  Lea's  Son  &  Co.  1884.  8vo, 
pp.  411. 
Elementary  works  on  chemistry  are  so  numerous  that  a  new  one  would 
seem  to  be  superfluous ;  but  the  one  now  before  us  has  been  written  with 
such  good  judgment  of  the  needs  of  those  for  whom  it  is  intended,  that  it 
will  be  appreciated.  Being  intended  merely  for  a  guide  to  learners,  not  as 
a  work  of  reference,  many  details  have  purposely  been  omitted  which 
would  be  looked  for  in  larger  works.  A  frame-work  is  thus  presented 
which  gives  the  fundamental  principles  and  characters  of  chemistry  and 
chemical  compounds,  and  thus  aids  the  attentive  student  in  completing  the 
structure.    That  the  want  of  pharmaceutical  and  medical  students  has 
