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schools  of  the  city.  The  first  number  appeared  on  New  Year's  Day,  and  suc- 
cessive numbers  will  appear  weekly,  we  trust  with  constantly  increasing  pros- 
perity. One  can  hardly  fail  to  recognize  it  as  the  editorial  work  of  Dr.  George 
M.  Gould,  the  former  editor  of  the  Medical  News.  His  writings  possess  a 
certain  clear-cut  terseness  that  makes  them  interesting  as  well  as  instructive. 
This  journal  purposes  "to  draw  the  line  against  all  nostrums  in  its  advertis- 
ing columns,  and  we  wish  it  success  in  this  laudable  determination,  as  well  as  in 
every  other  effort  towards  clean  journalism. 
NINTH  INTERNATIONAL  CONGRESS  OE  HYGIENE  AND  DEMOGRAPHY. 
We  have  received  from  the  Secretary-General,  Prof.  Dr.  Amalis  Gitneno,  of 
Madrid,  Spain,  the  rules,  programme,  etc.,  of  the  exhibition  which  is  to  be 
held  concurrently  with  the  Congress  at  Madrid  from  the  10th  to  17th  of  April, 
1898.  The  exhibition  will  be  divided  into  ten  classes,  as  follows  :  (1)  Didactic 
Hygiene;  (2)  Prophylaxis  of  Transmissible  Diseases;  (3)  Urban  Hygiene; 
(4)  Hygiene  in  Relation  to  Dwelling  Houses  ;  (5)  Hygiene  in  What  Refers  to 
Exercise  and  Work;  (6)  Naval  and  Military  Hygiene  ;  (7)  Hygiene  of  In- 
fancy and  Schools  ;  (8)  Food  and  Dressing;  (9)  Demography  and  Statistics; 
(10)  Miscellaneous.  Those  wishing  to  apply  for  space  should  address  Dr. 
Gimeno  as  above. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
NOZONI   DI   ANALISI    CHIMICA,    E    CENNI   SUEE'   ANAEISI    DEEH/E  ACQUE 
Potabiet,  Del  Dott.  Iciiio  Guareschi,  Professore  ordinario  di  Chimica  Farma- 
ceutica  e  Tossicologica  nella  R.  Universita  di  Torino.  Unione  Tipografico, 
Bditrice,  Torino,  1898. 
This  book  of  172  pages  is  Vol.  Ill,  part  2d,  of  the  author's  Commentario  della 
Farmacopea  Italiana.  The  author  is  already  well-known  through  his  work  on 
the  alkaloids,  the  German  translation  of  which,  by  Dr.  Kunz  Krause,  was 
noticed  in  this  Journae  during  the  past  year. 
The  present  work  is  to  a  certain  extent  based  on  the  analytical  scheme  of 
Fresenius,  but  it  contains  many  additions  which  make  it  of  especial  value  to 
pharmacists. 
After  the  introduction,  there  is  a  section  devoted  to  general  considerations 
in  which  the  behavior  of  reagents  and  general  operations  are  thoroughly 
described  and  illustrated  in  the  latter  case  with  numerous  figures.  Part  I 
describes  the  action  of  reagents  on  the  salts  of  the  seven  groups  of  bases  and  on 
the  salts  of  the  inorganic  and  organic  acids.  A  number  of  acids  are  studied 
which  do  not  usually  find  a  place  in  books  on  analytical  chemistry. 
Part  II  is  devoted  to  systematic  analysis,  in  which  the  bases  are  divided  into 
groups  by  the  usual  group  reagents,  and  then  separated  into  individual  mem- 
bers. This,  however,  is  prefaced  by  a  preliminary  examination  in  the  dry  way, 
and  with  some  directions  as  to  the  methods  of  getting  substances  into  solution. 
The  acids  are  detected  individually,  without  much  attempt  to  classify  them  into 
groups. 
A  short  section  is  devoted  to  microchemical  analysis,  in  which  a  large  num- 
ber of  illustrations  show  the  appearance  of  numerous  salts  under  the  micro- 
scope ;  this  also  includes  the  appearance  of  such  compounds  as  starch,  inulin, 
