Reviews. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharni 
\       Sept.,  1891. 
the  preceding  volumes  are  offered,  and  the  inducements  held  out  in  the  shape 
of  discounts,  for  completing  sets  of  these  publications,  beginning  with  the 
first  issue  in  185 1,  to  any  one  year  up  to  the  present  time.  Thus  the  first  ten 
volumes,  now  on  hand,  will  cost  $4.02  ;  the  first  twenty  volumes,  $11.55  !  tne 
first  thirty  volumes,  $23.50,  and  the  complete  set  of  39  volumes,  $35.50. 
A  Text-Book  of  Practical  Therapeutics,  with  especial  reference  to  the  appli- 
cation of  remedial  measures  to  disease  and  their  emploj'inent  upon  a  rational 
basis.  By  Hobart  Amory  Hare,  M.D.,  B.Sc,  Professor  of  Therapeutics  and 
Materia  Medica  in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  etc.  Second 
edition,  enlarged  and  thoroughly  revised.  Philadelphia  :  L,ea  Brothers  &  Co. 
1891.    8vo.    pp.  658.    Price,  cloth,  $3.75  ;  leather,  $4.75. 
Only  a  few  months  ago  (see  December  number,  1890,  p.  634)  we  noticed  the 
appearance  of  this  work,  the  value  and  usefulness  of  which  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that  it  has  become  a  text-book  in  several  medical  schools,  and  that  a  second 
edition  has  already  become  necessary.  Various  additions  have  been  made  to 
the  contents  ;  thus  a  number  of  new  drugs  are  discussed,  and  such  remedial 
measures  as  leeching,  rest-cure  and  suspension  ;  tables  on  metric  and  apothe- 
caries' weights  and  measures  have  been  added,  and  a  large  number  of  new 
prescriptions  have  been  inserted.  As  might  have  been  expected  the  text  has 
been  carefully  scrutinized  and  rendered  more  correct  and  clearer  where  it  was 
deemed  necessary,  so  that  in  all  respects  the  work  is  true  to  its  aim  of  being  a 
reliable  guide  in  the  study  of  therapeutics.  Some  erroneous  or  vague  state- 
ments have  been  carried  over  into  the  present  edition,  among  which  the 
following  may  be  mentioned.  Agaricin  (p.  42)  is  obtained  from  white  agaric, 
Polyporus  officinalis,  while  punk  is  derived  from  P.  fomentarius.  Under 
arsenic  (p.  70)  the  distinction  between  arseniates  and  arsenites  should  be  men- 
tioned. Physostigma  venenosum  is  a  woody  climber,  not  a  tree  (p.  260).  Oil 
of  sandalwood  is,  or  should  be,  derived  from  Santalum  album,  not  from  Ptero- 
carpus  santalinus  (p. 277). 
Notes  on  New  Remedies,  including  the  Additions  to  the  British  Pharmacopoeia 
of  1890.  Compiled  by  E.  B.  Shuttleworth,  Dean  and  Professor  of  Chemistry, 
Ontario  College  of  Pharmacy,  etc.  Toronto  :  Monetary  Times  Printing  Com- 
pany.   1891.    i2mo.    Pp.  87. 
The  large  majority  of  the  remedies  noticed  in  this  little  book  are  synthetical 
compounds  or  proximate  principles  introduced  into  medicine  during  late  years  ; 
but  also  pichi,  manaca,  and  some  other  plants  have  found  a  place,  as  well  as 
all  the  new  additions  to  the  British  Pharmacopoeia  ;  a  synopsis  of  the  galenical 
preparations  admitted  into  the  latter  has  been  given  in  our  January  number, 
page  14.  The  little  work  before  us  is  intended  as  a  compendium  of,  what  are 
at  present,  new  remedies,  giving  a  brief  history  of  the  introduction  or  deriva- 
tion of  the  article,  its  physical  and  medical  properties,  the  uses,  doses  and 
modes  of  administration.  It  is  intended  for  the  practical  use  of  the  physician 
and  pharmacist,  and  will  serve  a  very  useful  purpose,  since  the  compilation  has 
been  very  carefully  made,  and  the  facts  are  given  in  a  concise  form. 
