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coctions  through  whose  aid  he  sought  to  bring  relief.  With  the 
evolution  of  medicine  and  the  gradual  increase  in  the  number  and 
complexity  of  medicinal  agents  the  practitioner  of  medicine  has  be- 
come dependent  upon  the  pharmacist.  On  the  former  reposes  the 
obligation  of  familiarizing  himself  with  disease  for  the  purpose  of 
its  recognition  and  appropriate  treatment,  while  upon  the  latter 
devolves  the  duty  of  preparing  and  providing  in  most  convenient, 
most  palatable  and  most  reliable  form  the  drugs  prescribed  by  the 
physician.  The  physician  should  know  more  or  less  intimately  the 
sources  of  the  preparations  he  uses  and  their  general  chemical  com- 
position, but  he  cannot  be  expected  to  be  able  to  construct  them 
for  himself.  The  pharmacist,  however,  must  be  master  of  all  these 
things,  but  he  is  exempt  from  the  obligation  of  directing  the  em- 
ployment of  the  remedies;  it  is  his  function  to  prepare.  The  duty 
of  diagnosis  and  treatment  belongs  to  the  sphere  of  the  physician, 
that  of  drug  preparation  and  dispensing  to  the  sphere  of  the  phar- 
macist. Physician  and  pharmacist  are  thus  mutually  dependent  on 
each  other,  and  a  spirit  of  friendly  and  helpful  co-operation  must 
subsist  between  them  for  the  attainment  of  the  fullest  measure  of 
success  in  the  direction  of  the  end  in  view  that  both  have  in  com- 
mon— namely,  the  healing  of  the  sick. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
The  Microscopy  of  Vegetable  Foods  with  special  reference  to 
the  detection  of  adulterations  and  the  diagnosis  of  mixtures.  By 
Andrew  L,  Winton,  Connecticut  Agricultural  Experiment  Station, 
and  Josef  Moeller,  University  of  Graz.  Large  8vo,  xvi  -f  701  pages, 
589  figures.  Cloth,  #7.50.  New  York :  John  Wiley  &  Sons. 
London  :  Chapman  &  Hall,  Ltd. 
Both  Doctors  Winton  and  Moeller  are  well  known  for  their  valu- 
able researches  in  the  study  of  food  products.  Dr.  Winton  is  a 
former  student  of  the  eminent  pharmacognosist,  Professor  Moeller. 
It  is  rather  unique  to  find  a  student  associated  with  his  teacher,  each 
contributing  his  part  to  a  common  work,  and  the  whole  appearing 
almost  simultaneously  in  two  languages.  In  the  American  edition 
it  is  Dr.  Winton  with  the  collaboration  of  Professor  Moeller.  In  the 
German  edition  it  is  Professor  Moeller  with  the  collaboration  of  Dr, 
