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\  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
I       Dec,  1891. 
tastily  tied  with  white  silk  cord,  and  a  delicate  silvered  chain  attached,  by 
which  they  may  be  hung  on  the  wall  or  elsewhere,  and  are  so  arranged  on 
rings  that  they  may  be  turned  over  as  each  month  shall  be  needed  for  refer- 
ence. The  designs  are  appropriate  and  quite  attractive,  and  in  each  case  sug- 
gestive of  the  season  represented. 
The  Physicians'  Visiting  List  for  1892.  Philadelphia  :  P.  Blakiston,  Son  & 
Co.    Price,  for  25  patients,  $1. 
This  is  the  forty-first  year  of  the  issue  of  this  Visiting  List,  and  it  is  arranged 
in  the  usual  convenient  style.  The  several  tables  contained  in  the  preliminary 
part,  are  each  credited  to  some  one,  with  the  exception  of  a  "  Table  for  con- 
verting apothecaries'  weights  and  measures  into  grams,"  and  this  happens  to 
be  an  old  acquaintance  ;  for  fifteen  years  ago  we  made  the  calculations  and 
published  the  tables  in  the  Amer.  Jour.  Phar.,  1877,.  p.  92,  and  they  have 
also  since  been  published  in  the  National  Dispensatory,  and  in  many  other 
publications — not  unfrequently  without  proper  credit  having  been  given.  This 
has  not,  however,  been  detrimental  to  their  usefulness. 
Hand-book  of  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacy  'and  Therapeutics,  including  the 
physiological  action  of  drugs,  the  special  therapeutics  of  disease,  official  and 
practical  pharmacy,  and  minute  directions  for  prescription  writing.  By  S. 
O.  L.  Potter,  A.M.,  M.D.,  etc.  Third  edition,  revised..  Philadelphia  :  P. 
Blakiston,  Son  &  Co.,  1891.    8vo.  Pp.  767.    Price,  cloth,  $4;  full  leather,  $5. 
In  the  present  edition  some  new  remedies,  like  creolin  and  somnal,  have 
been  added  in  the  part  treating  of  materia  medica,  several  changes  have  been 
made  in  the  arrangement,  and  some  of  the  articles  have  been  partly  rewritten. 
On  comparing  this  with  the  previous  edition,  we  must  repeat  what  we  then 
said  in  this  Journal,  1890  :  "  Most  of  the  errors  which  we  noticed  in  the  first 
edition,  to  some  of  which  we  referred  in  the  previous  review,  remain  uncor- 
rected. *  *  *  The  general  correctness  of  all  that  belongs  to  the  thera- 
peutical uses  and  the  physiological  action  of  medicines,  will  render  the  book 
of  as  great  practical  value  to  the  physician,  as  the  preceding  edition  has  been." 
Copies  of  the  printed  Proceedings  of  the  following  State  Pharmaceutical 
Associations  have  been  received  : 
Louisiana. — Ninth  annual  meeting,  held  at  New  Orleans,  April  29  to  May  1. 
Pp.  138.  See  July  number,  p.  370.  The  next  meeting  will  take  place  in  New 
Orleans,  April  13,  1892.    Mrs.  B.  Rudolf,  Corresponding  Secretary. 
Virginia. — Tenth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Roanoke,  September  8  and  9. 
Pp.  58.  The  officers  for  the  current  year  are  :  M.  B.  Church,  Falls  Church, 
President ;  C.  B.  Fleet,  Lynchburg,  Secretary,  and  C.  H.  Lumsden,  Lynchburg, 
Treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Fredericksburg,  September  13, 
1892.    M.  C.  Hall,  Local  Secretary. 
Wisconsin. — Twelfth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Milwaukee  August  11  to  13. 
Pp.  75.  The  pamphlet  contains,  in  addition,  the  tenth  annual  report  of  the 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  occupying  48  pages.  The  officers  for  the  present 
year  are  :  C.  Widule,  Milwaukee,  President ;  W.  P.  Clarke,  Milton,  Treasurer, 
B.  B.  Heimstreet,  Janesville,  Permanent  Secretary.  The  next  meeting  will  be 
held  at  Oshkosh,  August  9,  1892. 
