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mayne's dispensatory. 
ART. XLIL—A DISPENSATORY AND THERAPEUTICAL RE- 
MEMBRANCER ; comprising the entire list of Materia Medica, 
preparations and compounds, with a full and distinct version of every 
practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and 
Dublin Royal Colleges of Physicians, in the latest editions of their 
several Pharmacopoeias, &c., &c. By John Mayne, M. D., &c. 
Revised with the addition of the formulae of the United States 
Pharmacopoeia, &c. By R. Egiesfeld Griffith, M. D., &c. Phila- 
delphia : Lea & Blanchaid. 1848. pp. 329. 
As the cultivators of medical literature multiply, the 
increased facilities for study in the form of regular treatises 
are not more apparent, than are the number of works de- 
signed to assist the memory by presenting a condensed view 
of the subjects of medicine, intended for students on the one 
hand and practitioners on the other. Of the latter class is 
the book before us, which, as the title will suggest, is 
intended as a companion to the practising physician, to 
remind him of the composition of officinal formulae, and to 
suggest forms for prescribing articles of the materia medica 
in view of their various applications, both external and 
internal. 
The chief merit of the work arises from what may be 
termed its condensed comprehensiveness^ presenting a 
large number of formulaj within a very small compass. 
The general classification is therapeutical, as Cathartics, 
Emetics, Anti spasmodics^ S^c. ; the preparations, simple 
and compound, of each drug are arranged under those heads 
which indicate their most prominent medical properties, as 
Ipecacuanha, under Emetics, Diaphoretics, &c. There is a 
condensed reference to the medical properties of each drug, 
with a statement of the plant or parts from whence, derived 
of which the following is an example, viz : 
