320  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {Amjjiue?i?Sfrm' 
first  one  from  page  355  to  994  ;  but  it  is  independent  of  the  former  and  com- 
plete in  itself. 
The  drugs  are  enumerated  in  alphabetical  order ;  the  inorganic  chemical 
compounds  and  the  organic  salts  of  metals  are  grouped  together  under  the 
chief  or  basylous  element,  while  the  crude  drugs  with  their  preparations  are 
found  as  a  rule  under  their  pharmacopceial  names,  or  in  case  two  or  more  parts 
of  the  same  plant  are  officinal,  under  the  name  of  the  plant,  under  which  like- 
wise the  non-pharmacopceial  vegetable  drugs  are  to  be  looked  for.  An  excep- 
tion is  Ustilago  which,  for  no  obvious  reason,  is  described  under  the  heading  of 
Maidis  Ustilago,  and  two  separate  headings  have  been  made  for  products  of  the 
maize  plant,  viz :  maidis  stigmata  for  corn  silk,  and  Mays  for  the  fruit,  meal 
and  starch  ;  in  this  latter  case  the  differences  in  the  medical  uses  of  the  articles 
has  evidently  decided  the  division.  A  large  number  of  the  recently  recom- 
mended vegetable  and  chemical  remedies  are  considered  including  Koch's 
famous  remedy  tuberculin  and  the  so-called  spermine,  introduced  by  Brown- 
Sequard. 
Descriptions  of  the  different  articles  are  not  given,  but  usually  a  few  prominent 
characteristics  or,  in  the  case  of  crude  drugs,  the  chief  medical  constituents  are 
briefly  mentioned  for  the  information  of  the  physician,  for  whose  special  use  the 
book  has  been  prepared  ;  attention  is,  therefore,  mainly  given  to  the  sub- 
headings physiological  action,  therapy,  doses,  hypodermic  administration, 
poisonous  effects,  treatment  of  poisoning,  and  others.  An  appendix  contains 
seven  pages  of  formulas  for  hypodermic'use,  and  a  very  complete  table  of  doses, 
which  occupies  six  pages  in  double  columns.  The  introductory  chapter  treats 
of  the  classification  of  medicines. 
The  work  is  an  excellent  compendium  for  the  use  of  the  physician,  and  is 
easily  consulted  by  virtue  of  its  alphabetical  arrangement,  and  of  a  copious 
index  of  drugs  and  preparations. 
Fever :  its  Pathology  and  Treatment  by  Antipyretics  ;  being  an  essay  which 
was  awarded  the  Boylston  prize  of  Harvard  University,  July  1890.  By  Hobart 
Amory  Hare,  M.D.,  B.  Sc.,  etc.  Philadelphia  and  London  :  F.  A.  Davis,  pub- 
lisher.   1891.    pp.  166.    Price,  $1.25. 
When  presented  to  the  Boylston  Prize  Committee  in  1890,  the  title  of  this 
essay  was  "The  uses  and  values  of  antipyretics."  Under  the  headings  of 
experimental  evidence  and  clinical  evidence  are  corsidered  the  action  and 
application  of  antipyrin,  anti-febrin,  thallin,  phenacetin,  and  salicylic  acid  and 
its  compounds,  and  numerous  observations  are  described,  and  the  literature  on 
the  subject  is  copiously  quoted.  The  author  regards  antipyrin  as  taking  the 
foremost  rank  as  an  antipyretic,  with  antifebrin  next,  and  these  followed  by 
thallin  and  phenacetin,  with  perhaps  a  preference  for  the  latter.  Antipyrin 
also  takes  the  lead  as  an  analgesic,  followed  by  phenacetin  and  antifebrin, 
while  thallin  possesses  hardly  any  such  power.  In  rheumatism  the  salicylates 
act  better  than  the  rest  of  these  antipyretics. 
A  dermatological  Bibliography,  compiled  by  George  Thomas  Jackson,  M.D., 
New  York.  Presented  to  the  American  Dermatological  Association,  in  1889, 
and  issued  as  part  of  its  Transactions  for  1890.    New  York.    1890.  8vo.  pp.  91. 
A  classified  catalogue  of  books  on  syphilis  and  skin  diseases,  giving  in  most 
cases  the  place  and  date  of  publication  and  the  price. 
