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Book  Reviews. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  September,  1915. 
Dorland's  American  Pocket  Medical  Dictionary.  Edited  by  W. 
A.  Newman  Dorland,  M.D.,  editor  "American  Illustrated  Med- 
ical Dictionary/'  Ninth  edition,  revised  and  enlarged.  321110.  of 
691  pages.  Philadelphia  and  London:  W.  B.  Saunders  Com- 
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Pennsylvania  Pharmacy  Laws,  in  effect  1913-1915.  Presented 
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