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Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1890. 
practically,  made  scarcely  any  change  in  this  class  of  preparations,  except  that 
savine  ointment  was  dismissed,  and  boric  acid  ointment  was  introduced.  We 
should  think  that  the  comparison  of  the  different  authoritative  standards 
would  be  greatly  facilitated  by  printing  their  corresponding  formulas  together. 
The  work,  in  the  preparation  of  which  great  care  and  extensive  study  is 
evident,  will  prove  of  great  value  not  only  to  the  practising  physician,  but  also 
to  the  pharmacist,  on  account  of  the  numerous  recognized  formulas  and  the 
many  practical  details  which  are  of  value  in  the  manufacture  of  many  of  these 
preparations.  It  should  be  stated  yet,  that  the  work  forms  No.  6  in  the  Physi- 
cians' and  Students'  Ready-Reference  Series  of  the  same  publisher. 
The  Physicians'  Visiting  List  for  1891.  Philadelphia  :  P.  Blakiston,  Son 
&  Co.    Price,  for  25  patients,  $1. 
The  present  is  the  fortieth  yearly  issue  of  this  useful  Visiting  List,  the 
arrangement  remaining  substantially  the  same  as  has  been  found  convenient  in 
preceding  years.  The  preliminary  matter,  including  a  number  of  useful  tables, 
has  been  revised,  and  short  instructions  for  the  transportation  of  injured  per- 
sons have  been  added.  The  list  of  new  remedies  for  1891  includes  several  older 
ones,  like  ethyl  bromide,  gurjun  oil  and  pilocarpine,  for  which  new  applications 
have  been  found. 
Pharmacographia  Indica.  A  History  of  the  Principal  Drugs  of  Vegetable 
Origin  met  with  in  India.  By  Wm.  Dymock,  Brigade  Surgeon,  Bombay  Army, 
etc.  ;  C.  J.  H.  Warden,  Surgeon-Major,  Bengal  Army,  etc.  ;  and  D.  Hooper, 
Quinologist  to  the  Government  of  Madras,  Ootacamund.  London  :  Kegan 
Paul,  Trench,  Triibner  &  Co.  1890. 
It  affords  us  much  pleasure  to  announce  the  appearance  of  Part  III  of  this 
valuable  work,  which  constitutes  the  firsthalf  of  the  second  volume.  Myrobalans, 
cloves  and  other  myrtles,  colocynth  and  other  cucurbitaceae,  and  many  drugs 
of  the  umbelliferae,  rubiacese,  compositse  and  orders  allied  to  the  foregoing  are 
described  in  the  part  now  before  us.  Many  of  the  drugs  noticed  are  also  used 
here,  some  have  become  obsolete  with  us,  while  a  much  larger  number  is  but 
little  known  in  the  western  hemisphere,  or  even  in  Europe.  Thus,  Persian 
sagapenum  is  unknown  in  America,  and  is  seldom  used  in  India  ;  that  which 
reaches  Bombay  is  mostly  exported  to  London.  The  asafetida  known  as  hing, 
which  reaches  India,  is  all  consumed  in  that  country,  together  with  a  consid- 
erable portion  of  that  called  hingra  ;  the  stony  asafetida,  which  has  occasion- 
ally found  its  way  to  the  western  world,  seems  to  be  made,  so  we  are  informed, 
more  for  convenience  of  carriage  than  for  deception,  and  the  juice  of  the 
plant  is  sometimes  so  fluid  that  it  runs  out  upon  the  surrounding  ground  and 
becomes  mixed  with  the  sand.  In  regard  to  cinchona,  we  learn  that  in  1885  a 
bark  yielding  3  per  cent,  of  quinine  sulphate  would  have  been  worth  is.  gd. 
per  pound  ;  at  the  present  time  the  same  bark  would  not  sell  for  more  than  6d. 
The  historical,  statistical  and  other  information  given  in  connection  with  each 
drug  is  of  very  great  interest ;  but  we  confess  that  we  were  somewhat  disap- 
pointed in  not  finding  any  account  of  ipecacuanha,  and  from  this  must  conclude 
that  the  cultivation  of  the  plant  in  India  has  not  been  attended  with  success,  a 
conclusion  for  which  we  were,  in  a  measure,  prepared  from  the  reports  pub- 
lished some  years  ago. 
