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will  be  able  to  take  your  place  socially  among  physicians  and  your 
fellow  men. 
With  our  trade  organization,  our  colleges,  the  assistance  of  all 
right-minded  physicians  and  the  enlightened  public,  there  is  no 
reason  why  such  a  law  should  not  be  passed  and  the  business,  or 
profession  as  it  really  is,  re-established  and  take  its  proper  place  in 
the  community :  The  care  of  the  sale  and  the  distribution  of  poisons 
and  poisonous  products. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
The  Practice  of  Pharmacy.  A  treatise  on  the  modes  of  mak- 
ing and  dispensing  official  and  unofficial,  and  extemporaneous  prep- 
arations, with  descriptions  of  medicinal  substances,  their  properties, 
uses  and  doses.  Intended  as  a  hand-book  for  pharmacists  and 
physicians  and  a  text-book  for  students.  By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
With  over  eight  hundred  illustrations.  Philadelphia  :  J.  B.  Lippin- 
cott  Company.    London  :  5  Henrietta  Street,  Covent  Garden. 
It  is  exactly  twenty  years  since  the  first  edition  (October,  1885), 
of  Remington's  Practice  of  Pharmacy  was  published.  The  first 
edition  was  written  after  the  author  had  been  Professor  of  the  Theory 
and  Practice  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
for  eleven  years.  The  time  was  ripe  for  the  publication  of  a  book 
which  could  at  once  be  used  by  the  student  or  apprentice  in  quali- 
fying himself  for  his  professional  work  and  by  the  pharmacist  as  a 
work  of  reference. 
It  is  usually  conceded  that  no  other  work  on  pharmacy  has  had 
such  a  large  sale,  and  this  sale  must  be  taken  as  a  measure  of  its 
success  and  general  merit.  It  is  adapted  to  the  needs  of  a  larger 
number,  and  contains  probably  a  larger  amount  of  general  informa- 
tion, which  the  pharmacist  is  likely  to  need  in  the  course  of  his  ordi- 
nary routine  business  than  any  other  book  on  pharmacy  that  has 
been  published.  In  fact,  besides  being  primarily  a  treatise  on  the 
principles  of  pharmaceutical  practice,  it  is  more  or  less  of  a  dispen- 
satory or  commentary  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  without  its  being 
burdened  with  much  of  the  matter  contained  in  the  dispensatories, 
which  is  only  occasionally  referred  to.  Besides  containing  practi- 
cally everything  in  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  it  contains  the  formulas 
of  the  National  Formulary,  a  formulary  of  unofficial  preparations 
