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peutics  and  a  range  of  cognate  subjects  which  can  be  grouped  with  manifest 
advantage.  In  addition  to  the  paragraphs  covering  the  physical  properties, 
physiological  action,  therapeutics  and  toxicology  of  each  medicinal  agent, 
chapters  will  be  found  on  prescription  writing,  medical  Latin,  medical  phar- 
macy and  practical  anaesthesia.  Tables  of  doses,  of  poisons  and  antidotes,  and 
of  incompatibilities,  together  with  a  therapeutic  index  of  diseases  and  remedies 
and  a  general  index,  conclude  a  volume  which  it  is  hoped  may  prove  of  service 
to  practitioners  as  well  as  students.  It  contains  in  a  concise,  definite  and 
assimilable  form  the  essential  knowledge  required  in  the  most  complete  college 
courses  on  materia  medica  and  therapeutics." 
While  Professor  Cushny's  book,  which  we  referred  to  in  this  Journal  on 
page  489,  is  evidently  written  by  one  who  has  bad  a  good  scientific  training 
and  strong  tendencies  in  a  pure  pharmacological  direction  [i.  e.,  treating  of  the 
action  of  drugs),  it  may  be  said  that  the  work  of  Dr.  Wilcox  (also  reviewed  above) 
has  a  more  extended  treatment  by  one  who  is  rather  appreciative  of  all  that  enters 
into  a  knowledge  of  the  administration  of  drugs  in  disease;  and  further,  in  the 
book  of  Dr.  Schleif  we  find  an  epitome  of  not  only  the  general  characteristics  and 
properties  of  drugs,  but  of  physiological  action,  therapeutics,  preparations  and 
doses,  and  it  is  particularly  distinguished  from  the  other  works  in  that  the  best 
form  of  administration  of  remedies  is  also  given.  Dr.  Schleif  shows  the  value 
of  his  pharmaceutical  education,  and  the  facts  contained  in  this  book  refute  the 
statement  in  Professor  Cushny's  book  that  "pharmacy  will  probably  occupy  a 
still  more  subordinate  position  in  medical  education  as  the  tendency  to  include 
only  one  or  two  drugs  in  a  prescription  becomes  more  widely  spread.  As  long 
as  a  dozen  or  more  components  went  to  make  one  mixture,  it  was  of  importance 
to  know  their  solubility  and  their  interactions,  but  with  the  decay  of  the  complex 
prescription,  the  study  of  pharmacy  by  medical  students  certainly  has  become 
less  imperative."  It  is  not  our  province  to  say  whether  pharmacy  should  be 
taught  the  medical  student,  but  we  must  add  that  the  compounding  of  prescrip- 
tions is  based  on  more  than  solubility,  and  that  elegant  pharmacy  requires  even 
a  greater  knowledge  than  this,  and  it  is  the  art  of  making  medicines  palatable. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  47th  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was 
held  at  Put-in-Bay,  Lake  Erie,  Ohio,  on  September  4-9.  The  first  general  ses- 
sion was  called  to  order  by  the  President,  Charles  E.  Dohme,  of  Baltimore,  on 
Monday  afternoon  at  3.45.  The  president  introduced  the  Local  Secretary,  Mr. 
L.  C.  Hopp,  who,  in  turn,  introduced  the  Mayor  of  Put-in-Bay,  who  made  an 
excellent  address  of  welcome.  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd  then  welcomed  the  Association 
on  behalf  of  the  Ohio  pharmacists,  giving  some  of  the  history  attached  to  the 
islands  in  that  locality,  referring  to  Perry's  victory  and  calling  attention  to  the 
willow  tree  around  which  his  dead  officers  were  buried  after  the  battle.  He  also 
spoke  of  the  peculiar  geological  formation  of  the  islands,  with  their  limestone  and 
strontium  caves,  etc.  Mr.  Dohme  invited  Prof.  J.  M.  Good,  of  St.  Louis,  to 
respond,  and  the  latter  paraphrased  Perry's  message  by  saying  "  we  have  met 
the  enemy  and  we  are  theirs." 
Mr.  Hopp  then  announced  the  programme  of  the  meeting,  after  which  the 
President  delivered  his  address,  which  contained  many  suggestions  looking  to 
