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Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1886. 
against  all  non-secret  medicine  manufacturers,  and  wholesale  and  retail  deal- 
ers, who  make,  sell  or  deal  in  Iron  Tonic  Bitters,  Brown's  Iron  Tonic  or  other 
Iron  Remedies,  or  medicines  containing  iron  that  either  directly  or  indirectly 
trespass  upon  our  rights  as  the  inventors  and  owners  of  the  genuine  Brown's 
Iron  Bitters."  It  does  not  seem  to  be  claimed  that  the  label  or  wrapper  of  the 
nostrum  had  been  copied  or  imitated,  and  it  appears  to  be  preposterous  that 
the  names  should  be  considered  an  infringement  of  the  copyrighted  name  of 
the  nostrum.  Can  it  be  possible  that  some  of  those  threatened  preparations 
are  to  be  involved  in  law  suits,  because  they  are  non-secret  f  We  have  often 
advocated  that  the  demand  for  family  medicines  should  be  supplied  by  reme- 
dies, the  composition  of  which  to  be  known  at  least  in  the  localities  where 
they  are  used,  and  we  still  believe  th  it  if  such  a  plan  had  been  adopted 
years  ago,  the  country  would  not  now  be  flooded  with  secret  nostrums, 
many  of  which  are  positively  injurious.  The  course  indicated  is  certainly  an 
honest  one,  and  if  pharmacists  make  preparations  of  iron  and  bitter  principles, 
according  to  formulas  which  are  not  kept  secret,  we  sincerely  hope  that  they 
will  be  legally  protected  in  their  honest  endeavors  to  supply  the  public  with 
such  remedies,  in  the  place  of  nostrums  of  unknown  composition. 
Illinois  College  of  Pharmacy. — We  have  learned  that  under  this  title  a  charter 
has  recently  been  obtained  in  Chicago  by  Dr.  Joseph  Cummings,  President  of 
the  Northwestern  University,  Messrs.  E.  H.  Sargent,  T.  H.  Patterson,  O.  Old- 
berg  and  others.  Whatever  causes  may  have  led  to  the  organization  of  a  second 
College  of  Pharmacy  in  one  and  the  same  city,  they  are  to  be  deeply  regretted, 
and  we  hope  that  a  union  of  the  two  institutions  may  not  be  regarded  as  an 
impossibility.  The  cause  of  pharmaceutical  education  is  undoubtedly  best 
served  by  concentrating,  in  suitable  localities,  those  interested  in  one  common 
effort  towards  the  end  in  view,  sinking  individual  opinions,  if  necessary,  in 
preference  to  weakening  through  division. 
KEYIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Year-Booh  of  Pharmacy ;  comprising  abstracts  of  papers  relating  to  Pharmacy, 
Materia  Medica  and  Chemistry,  contributed  to  British  and  foreign  journals, 
from  July  1,  1884,  to  June  30, 1885.  With  the  Transac'ions  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  at  the  twenty-second  annual  meeting,  held  at 
Aberdeen,  Sept.  6, 1885.   London :  J.  &  A.  Churchill.   8vo,  pp.  566. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  thirty-third  annual 
meeting:,  held  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  September,  1885;  also,  the  Constitution,  By- 
Laws  and  Poll  of  Members.   Philadelphia.    8vo,  pp.  694. 
The  first  one  of  these  annuals  was  received  early  in  March  ;  the  second  one 
has  just  been  distributed.  The  abstracts  of  papers  published  during  the  year 
preceding  list  July,  occupy  respectively  291  and  360  pages;  and  the  minutes, 
with  reports  and  papers  read,  173  pages  in  the  former  and  222  pages  in  the  last- 
named  volume.  Condensed  accounts  of  the  meetings  of  both  Associations 
were  published  in  the  October  number,  1885,  of  our  journals,  where  also  a 
