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Progress  in  Applied  Science. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  November,  1915. 
lar  form,  of  the  pharmacology,  the  chief  therapeutic  uses,  and  the 
materia  medica  of  those  drugs  which  have  been  accepted  by  the 
Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation for  inclusion  in  the  "  Handbook  of  Useful  Drugs." 
As  a  contribution  to  the  propaganda  for  a  rational  material 
medica  this  volume  is  deserving  of  careful  study  on  the  part  of 
pharmacists  as  well  as  physicians.  As  has  been  pointed  out  before, 
the  list  of  "  Useful  Drugs  "  includes  all  of  the  well-established  and 
widely-used  drugs  and  preparations  now  included  in  the  Pharmaco- 
poeia of  the  United  States,  with  a  number  of  the  newer  products 
not  as  yet  included  in  that  standard. 
As  suggested  by  the  title,  the  object  of  this  book  is  to  make  it 
clear  to  medical  practitioners  that  the  well-known  and  more  widely- 
used  drugs  of  our  materia  medica  fully  suffice  to  meet  all  known 
pharmacologic  requirements.  The  book  is  not  intended  to  replace  the 
larger  works  on  pharmacology  and  therapeutics,  but  rather  to  act 
as  a  stimulus  and  to  serve  as  a  guide  to  the  more  comprehensive 
treatises. 
A  List  of  Miscellaneous  Publications  of  the  United  States 
Public  Health  Service  announces  for  free  distribution  Hygienic 
Laboratory  Bulletin  No.  104,  "  The  Digest  of  Comments  on  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America  and  on  the  National 
Formulary  for  the  Calendar  Year  ending  December  31,  1914."  Ap- 
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PROGRESS  IN  APPLIED  SCIENCE. 
Coal-Tar  Dyestuff  Industry. 
"  There  is  still,  however,  one  serious  obstacle  in  the  way  of  the 
confident  and  determined  development  of  the  coal-tar  dyestuff  in- 
dustry on  American  soil,  and  that  difficulty  is  the  possibility,  no, 
rather  the  certainty,  that  upon  the  resumption  of  normal  international 
conditions  European  manufacturers  will  endeavor,  by  boycott,  under- 
