348  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {AmjJu°iyj^arm- 
This  amendment  was  subsequently  referred  back  to  the  committee, 
and  at  a  later  meeting  of  the  House  of  Delegates  the  following 
substitute  was  adopted : 
"Reputable  pharmacists  may  be  admitted  as  pharmaceutic  mem- 
bers on  recommendation  of  the  officers  of  the  section  on  Materia 
Medica,  Pharmacy  and  Therapeutics,  subject  to  approval  by  a 
majority  vote  of  the  members  of  the  section,  the  names  of  such 
members  to  be  sent  to  the  secretary  by  the  secretary  of  the  section." 
The  provisions  for  dental  members  of  the  section  on  Stomatology, 
adopted  at  the  same  time,  require  that  the  candidate  have  the  degree 
of  D.D.S.  from  some  recognized  school  of  dentistry,  and  also  be  a 
member  in  good  standing  of  some  recognized  dental  society. 
The  section  on  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacy  and  Therapeutics  also 
adopted  several  resolutions  that  are  of  more  or  less  interest  to  phar- 
macists. One  of  these,  relating  to  the  abuse  of  patent  medicines, 
has  one  section  that  refers  to  medicines  used  by  physicians.  This  is 
section  5  of  the  resolution,  and  reads:  "That  manufacturers  be 
requested  to  print  the  scientific  or  chemical  name  under  the  trade 
name  of  all  pharmaceutic  or  chemical  preparations." 
In  another  set  of  resolutions,  in  which  the  metric  system  of 
weights  and  measures  is  endorsed,  the  section  recommends  the  pro- 
posed international  standard  dropper  and  also  the  use  of  5  c.c.  as 
the  equivalent  of  I  teaspoonful  and  of  1 5  c.c.  as  the  equivalent  of 
I  tablespoonful. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
The  Internal  Secretions  and  the  Principles  of  Medicine.  By 
Charles  E.  de  M.  Sajous,  M.D.  Volume  I,  with  forty-two  illustra- 
tions.   Philadelphia:  F.  A.  Davis  Company.  1903. 
The  investigator  busily  occupied,  as  he  usually  is,  in  a  more  or 
less  limited  domain,  is  likely  to  lose  si^ht  of  the  relation  of  his  work 
to  that  of  his  colaborers  in  other  directions  in  the  building  up  of 
fundamental  principles  of  science.  Fortunately,  there  always  have 
been  some  men  who  have  watched  the  progress  of  the  various  inves- 
tigators and  co-ordinated  these  results  into  a  system  of  principles. 
This  work  becomes  more  and  more  difficult  as  the  number  of  inves- 
tigators increases  and  the  field  of  operation  widens.  Dr.  Sajous  has 
been  since  1888  closely  following  the  development  of  the  various 
branches  of  medical  science,  correlating  the  facts  of  investigators, 
