OBITUARY. 
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issue,  as  a  testimony  against  abortion  in  all  its  shapes,  and  especially 
against  that  practised  in  married  life,  leads  us  to  entertain  a  favorable 
opinion  of  the  present  volume,  as  an  appeal  for  justice  to  the  understand- 
ings of  men,  in  a  case  where  their  own  passions  are  at  the  bar.  It  is  a  plea 
for  reasonable  continence  in  married  life,  based  on  true  respect  for  women, 
as  the  foundation  of  domestic  happiness.  Let  every  man  read  it,  and  ask, 
Is  it  I  ? 
British  Pharmacopoeia.     Published  under  the  direction  of  the  General 
Council  of  Medical  Education  and  Registration  of  the  United  Kingdom, 
pursuant  to  the  Medical  Act  of  1857-67.  London. 
We  are  indebted  to  Prof.  Redwood  for  a  copy  of  the  new  edition  of  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia,  prepared  by  himself  and  Mr.  Warrington,  of 
Apothecaries'  Hall,  and  hope  to  be  able  to  notice  it  in  a  future  number  of 
this  Journal. 
Letters  Received  from  I.  L.  Putegat,  of  Brownsville,  Texas,  George  C. 
Schseffer,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  W.  D.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  of  Boston,  will 
receive  attention. 
OBITUARY. 
Guibourt. — Nicholas-John-Baptist  Gaston  Guibourt,  was  born  in  Paris 
in  1790,  and  died  on  the  2 2d  of  August  last,  in  the  77th  year  of  his  age. 
He  was  educated  as  a  Pharmacien  in  the  Pharmacy  of  Boudet,  where  he 
commenced  his  career  in  1806.  He  afterwards  served  as  an  interne  of  the 
Hospitals,  and  graduated  with  honor  at  the  Ecole  de  Pharmacie  in  1816, 
He  was  subsequently  appointed  director  of  the  magazine  of  the  Central 
Pharmacy  of  the  Hospitals  of  Paris.  It  was  when  in  occupancy  of  this 
position,  that  he  conceived  the  idea  of  writing  his  l<  Histoire  des  Brogues 
Simples,"  and  he  afterwards,  in  connection  with  M.  Henry,  published  his 
"  Pharmacopee  Raisonee,  a  treatise  on  Practical  and  Theoretical  Phar- 
macy. In  1824  he  became  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  and 
in  1832  was  elected  to  succeed  Pelletier  in  the  chair  of  Natural  History 
of  Drugs  in  the  Ecole  de  Pharmacie.  In  1845  he  gave  up  the  pharma- 
ceutical business  which  he  had  pursued  for  27  years,  and  devoted  himself 
to  the  interest  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  greatly  advanced  the  reputation 
of  the  branch  of  instruction  which  he  taught,  and  extended  the  collections 
of  the  museum,  which  he  labelled  with  great  care  and  exactness  to  give 
them  authenticity.  A  marked  trait  of  M.  Guibourt  was  his  earnest  pur- 
suit of  the  truth  in  science,  and  it  was  this  that  gave  character  to  his 
works.  His  merit  was  enhanced  by  modesty  and  disinterestedness,  his 
ambition  being  to  pursue  at  his  leisure  the  problems  of  science,  and  the 
