Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Oct.,  1890. 
Varieties. 
543 
senting  ;  in  that  case  we  would  have  on  p.  121  u  Pharmacopcea  Germanica," 
and  on  p.  217  "  cimicifuga." 
We  heartily  comment  the  work  for  its  practical  methods  and  for  its  general 
correctness  showing  the  experienced  scholar  and  teacher.  Students,  as  well  as 
those  advanced  in  the  two  professions,  for  whose  special  benefit  the  work  has 
been  elaborated,  will  appreciate  the  reliable  guide  offered  to  them  by  the 
author,  and  more  particularly  would  we  recommend  its  use  to  those  entering 
upon  the  threshold  of  pharmacy  or  medicine. 
The  Monist  is  the  title  of  a  new  quarterly  magazine  of  philosophy,  science, 
religion  and  sociology,  to  be  published  in  Chicago.  Among  the  contributors 
are  mentioned  Prof.  E.  D.  Cope,  of  Philadelphia ;  Prof.  George  J.  Romanes,  of 
London  ;  M.  Alfred  Binet,  of  Paris  ;  Prof.  Ernst  Mach,  of  Prague  ;  Max  Des- 
soir,  of  Berlin  ;  Dr.  Paul  Carus,  of  Chicago  ;  Prof.  Joseph  I,e  Conte,  Prof. 
William  James,  Charles  S.  Peirce,  Prof.  Max  Miiller,  Prof.  Ernst  Hackel,  and 
Th.  Ribot. 
The  foreign  correspondence  will  be  furnished  for  Italy,  by  Prof.  C.  Iyombroso, 
the  criminologist ;  for  France,  by  L,ucien  Arreat,  the  critic  of  the  Revue  Philo- 
sophique ;  for  the  northern  countries,  by  Prof.  Harald  Hoffding,  of  Copenha- 
gen ;  for  Germany,  by  Prof.  F.  Jodl,  of  Prague,  and  others. 
The  magazine  will  bear  a  popular  character,  publishing  articles  of  general 
interest  as  well  as  those  of  a  more  special  character. 
Proceedings  of  the  Seventh  Annual  Convention  of  the  National  Confec- 
tioners' Association  of  the  United  States,  held  at  Niagara  Falls,  July  8  and  9, 
1890.  Official  Record  of  Reports,  Circulars  and  Communications  for  the  year 
1889-1890.    Philadelphia  :  Confectioners'  Journal  Print.    Pp.  125. 
The  pamphlet  is  about  evenly  divided  between  the  ' '  Proceedings  ' '  and  the 
"Record."  As  a  matter  of  course  much  attention  is  given  to  reports  and  laws 
concerning  food  adulteration. 
VARIETIES. 
Potassium  iodide  has  been  given  by  Wolf  {Revue  de  Therapeutique')  in  doses 
of  from  30  to  50  gm.  daily  in  obstinate  cases  of  tertiary  syphilis.  It  is  dissolved 
in  a  decoction  of  rice  in  order  to  prevent  iodism.  The  same  salt  was  also  given 
in  large  doses  in  a  case  of  psoriasis  by  Dr.  Stenhouse  {Med.  Chron.^  August, 
1890,  p.  410),  who  administered  to  a  young  lady  100  ounces  of  potassium  iodide 
from  March  8  to  August  3,  the  largest  doses  being  2 10  grains  three  times  a  day. 
Its  influence  over  the  psoriasis  did  not  appear  until  360  grains  were  taken 
daily. 
Poisoning  by  Male  Fern. — The  Wiener  Klin.  Wochensch.  reports  the  case, 
of  a  child  $l/2  years  old,  to  whom  two  drachms  of  the  oleo-resin  were  given  in 
three  doses  within  one  hundred  minutes.  In  an  hour  and  a  half  part  of  the 
tapeworm  was  expelled,  then  vomiting  occurred,  and  somnolence,  followed  by 
twitching,  sopor,  and  trismus,  of  ten  minutes'  duration,  ending  in  death  five 
hours  after  the  last  dose  of  the  extract. 
Salicylic  acid  has  been  advantageously  employed  in  dysentery  by  Cimbali 
(Internal.  Klin.  Rundschau).  It  was  administered  every  four  hours  in  doses 
of  0  5  gm.,  combined  with  o*oi  to  0*015  gm-  opium. 
