112  Reviews,  etc.  {^i™;^™ 
Beitrag  zur  Chemie  der  Rhabarbervmrzel.   Yon  Mag.  pharm.  M.  Kubli. 
Contribution  to  the  chemistry  of  rhubarb  root. 
A  translation  of  this  valuable  essay  was  published  in  our  December  number. 
Ueber  Untersuchung  und  BeurtheUung  des  Trinkwassers  vom  Standpunkte  der  Gesund- 
heitspflege.    Yon  Prof.  Dr.  E.  Reichard.    Pp.  11. 
On  the  critical  examination  of  potable  water  from  the  standpoint  of  hygiene. 
Water,  preventable  Disease  and  Filtration.    By  P.  A.  Maignen.    London.  Pp.63. 
The  following  six  pamphlets  have  reference  to  the  Sixth  International  Phar- 
maceutical Congress  which  was  held  in  Brussels,  and  the  transactions  of  which 
were  reported  in  our  October  number,  1885. 
Questions  a  discuter  en  Sections. 
I?  Enseignement  Pharmaceutique.    Par  L.  De  Xobele. 
Les  Eaux  Alimentaires.    Par  M.  Yan  de  Yyvere. 
Projet  d'une  Pharmacopee  Internationale.    Par  Antoine  de  Waldheim.    (The  same 
also  in  the  German  language.) 
Sur  V Action  comparee  des  diffe rentes  Aconitines.    Par  J.  Buntzen  et  H.  P.  Madsen. 
Le  Filtrage.    Par  P.  A.  Maignen. 
Address  of  the  State  Boa  rd  of  Health,  and  Yital  Statistics  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Pennsylvania  to  the  People  of  Pennsylvania.    Pp.  7. 
Massachusetts  State  Agricultural  Experiment  Station.    Bulletins  Nos.  17  and  18. 
Arena  Sativa,  inthe  treatment  of  Opium  Addiction.  A  therapeutical  fraud,  a  delusion 
and  a  snare.   By  J.  B.  Mattison,  M.  D.,  Brooklyn,  jN".  Y. 
Reprint  from  the  Medical  Bulletin,  October,  1885. 
Voice,  in  Singers.    By  Carl  H.  Yon  Klein,  A.  M.,  M.D.,  of  Dayton,  0. 
Eead  before  the  Ohio  State  Medical  Society. 
The  American  Practitioner  and  the  Louisville  Medical  News  have  been  consolidated 
in  a  bi-weekly  journal  which,  since  the  beginning  of  the  present  year  and 
under  the  editorial  management  of  Drs.  Yandell  and  Cottell,  the  editors  of 
the  old  journals,  has  been  issued  under  the  title  of  American  Practitioner  and 
Neus. 
The  Chemist  and  Druggist^  a  monthly  journal  published  in  London.  England,  has 
opened  branch  offices  in  Australia  (Melbourne),  and  in  the  United  States,  the 
latter  being  located  on  Beekman  street,  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
