542 
Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Oct.,  1890. 
tine,  chinoid.,  tine,  croci,  tine,  ipecac.,  unguent,  sabinae,  vin.  chinae,  zinc, 
sulfocarbol. 
The  following  have  been  recognized  for  the  first  time  by  the  Pharmacopoeia  : 
acetanilidum,  acid,  trichloracet.,  aether  bromatus,  agaricinum,  album,  ovi  sice, 
amylenum  hydratum,  antipyrinum,  bals.  tolut.,  capsulae,  chinin.  tannic, 
chloralum  formamidatum,  cocainum  hydrochloric,  extracta  fluida  (condu- 
rango,  frangula,  hydrastis  and  ergot),  ferr.  citric,  oxyd.,  homatrop.  hydro- 
brom.,  hyoscinum  hydrobrom.,  keratin.,  liq.  ferri  album.,  liq.  ferr.  jodati, 
mentholum,  naphthalin,  naphtholum,  paraldehydum,  phenacetinum,  physo- 
stigminum  sulfuric,  resorcinum,  rhiz.  hydrastis,  salolum,  sebum  salicylat.  (2 
per  cent,  salicylic  acid),  sem.  arecae,  sem.  strophanthi,  species  diureticae 
(lovage,  ononis,  liquorice  root,  juniper  berries,  equal  parts),  styli  caustici,  sul- 
fonalum,  suppositoria,  terpinum  hydratum,  thallinum  sulfuricum,  tine,  stro- 
phanthi (1  :  10),  ung.  acidi  borici  (1:10  paraffin  ointment),  vin.  condurango  (1:10 
sherry  wine). 
The  Latin  Grammar  of  Pharmacy  and  Medicine.  By  D.  H.  Robinson, 
Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Latin  Language  and  Literature,  University  of  Kansas. 
With  an  introduction  by  L.  E.  Sayre,  Ph.G.,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in,  and 
Dean  of,  Department  of  Pharmacy,  University  of  Kansas.  Philadelphia  :  P. 
Blakiston,  Son  &  Co.    1890.    Pp.  271. 
We  hasten  to  note  the  appearance  of  this  work  which  has  just  been  published 
and  to  which  we  have  thus  far  been  able  to  give  a  mere  hasty  examination, 
resulting,  however,  in  the  conviction  that  the  work  is  an  eminently  useful  one 
for  the  student  in  pharmacy  and  in  medicine.  It  is  in  fact  a  grammar  intended 
for  teaching  the  Latin  language  with  direct  application  to  the  necessities  of  the 
physician  and  pharmacist.  The  difficulties  of  such  an  undertaking  are  readily 
appreciated  by  the  philologist,  even  though  they  be  unknown  to,  or  not  valued 
by,  those  directly  interested.  Numerous  terms,  unknown  to  classical  Latin, 
have  been  introduced  into  science,  and  such  terms — many  of  them  derived 
from  the  Greek — have  been  utilized  by  the  author  for  teaching  the  rules  of 
grammar  and  constructing  the  exercises  for  the  student.  Among  these  exer- 
cises there  will  be  found  a  large  number  of  formulas  and  prescriptions  taken 
from  Pharmacopoeias  and  from  the  writings  of  various  authors  on  medical 
matters.  The  vocabularies  attached  to  the  work  constitute  likewise  one  of 
its  valuable  features  ;  in  our  opinion  it  would  be  an  improvement  to  merge  the 
index  of  suggestive  derivations  into  the  Latin-English  vocabulary,  which  con- 
tains already  quite  a  number  of  terms  similar  in  derivation  to  the  former,  or 
which  were  unknown  to  classical  authors.  Perhaps  of  equal  importance  to  the 
ancient  meaning  of  the  word  "populus,"  given  on  p.  239,  is,  to  the  physician 
and  pharmacist,  its  botanical  meaning  as  "arbor  populi."  The  admission  of 
ancient  terms  like  iris  and  abies  suggests  that  others  of  at  least  equal  importance 
and  antiquity  might  have  been  honored  in  like  manner,  such  as  pinus, 
juniperus,  salix,  quercus,  etc.  The  extension  of  the  vocabulary  in  the  direction 
indicated  would,  in  our  opinion,  materially  enhance,  to  the  student,  the  value 
of  this  list  even  if  not  extended  to  make  it  a  medico-pharmaceutical  dictionary. 
In  relation  to  the  admission  of  words,  it  seems  to  us,  they  should  be  given  as 
established  by  authority,  even  if  the  linguist  should  have  ample  reason  for  dis- 
