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United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  and  to  compare  them  with  the  British 
Pharmacopoeia  now  in  use.  That  he  has  succeeded  wonderfully  well 
is  evidenced  by  a  careful  study  of  the  book,  or  rather  booklet,  itself, 
which  is  to  be  recommended  to  all  who  are  in  any  way  interested  in 
the  comparative  study  of  existing  Pharmacopoeias. 
The  second  pamphlet  of  interest  in  this  connection  is:  Hygienic 
Laboratory.  Bulletin  No.  23,  August  1,  1905,  entitled  :  Changes  in 
the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America,  Eighth  Decennial 
Revision.  Official  from  September  I,  1905.  By  Reid  Hunt  and 
Murray  Gait  Motter.  Washington  :  Government  Printing  Office. 
1905. 
This  pamphlet  contains  a  series  of  interesting  comments  on  the 
properties  and  uses  of  the  additions  to  the  Pharmacopoeia,  also  a 
number  of  tables  relating  to  the  changes  in  strength  of  the  more 
important  official  preparations,  a  list  of  the  changes  in  the  official 
Latin  titles  of  pharmacopceial  preparations,  a  list  of  the  articles  dis- 
missed from  the  Pharmacopoeia ;  also  a  table  of  average  doses,  as 
given  by  the  eighth  decennial  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and 
an  index.  The  latter  is  particularly  valuable  and  refers  to  a  number 
of  allied  compounds  that  are  mentioned  in  the  comments  on  the 
new  additions  to  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  fifty -sixth  Annual  Session  of  the  American  Medical  Association^ 
held  at  Portland,  Ore.,  July  10-14,  1 905,  was  of  more  than  usual 
interest  to  pharmacists.  In  point  of  numbers  the  meetings  were 
particularly  well  attended  and  the  papers  and  other  communications 
presented  to  the  several  sections  were  of  the  usual  high  order  of 
merit. 
Before  the  Section  on  Pharmacology,  now  changed  to  Section  on 
Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics,  several  papers  by  members  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  were  read  and  discussed. 
Prof.  Albert  Schneider,  of  San  Francisco,  read  a  paper  entiled 
"  Uncertain  Origin  of  Many  Drugs;"  Prof.  William  M.  Searby,  of 
San  Francisco,  read  a  paper  on  "  The  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia — Its 
Functions ;  "  and  Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  of  Chicago,  read  a  paper 
on  "  The  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia.  Advance  in  Pharmacy."  A  resolu- 
tion endorsing  the  standards  and  the  orthography  of  the  U.S. P.  was 
also  adopted  by  this  section. 
In  the  Section  on  Practice  of  Medicine,  Dr.  Frank  Billings,  of 
Chicago,  read  a  paper  on  "The  Secret  Nostrum  Evil,"  in  which  he 
