Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
Feb.,  1879.  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
Practical  Surgery:  including  surgical  dressings,  bandaging,  ligations  and  amputa- 
tions. By  J.  Ewing  Mears,  M.D.,  Demonstrator  of  Surgery  in  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College,  etc.,  with  227  illustrations.  Philadelphia  :  Lindsay  &  Blakiston, 
1878.    J2mo,  pp.  279.    Price,  $2.00 
The  scope  of  this  work  is  indicated  by  its  title.  The  author  has  endeavored  to 
present  the  subjects  in  a  concise  manner,  and*  at  the  same  time,  to  omit  nothing 
which  might  interfere  with  completeness.  The  illustrations  are  mainly  reproduc- 
tions from  well-known  larger  works  on  surgery,  and  of  improved  surgical  instru- 
ments. The  descriptions  are  clear  and  to  the  point,  and  the  volume  will  be  found 
an  excellent  and  useful  addition  to  the  library  of  the  student  in  surgery. 
Recherches  sur  la  digestion,  P  assimilation  et  Voxydation  organique  ou  <vitale.    Par  M» 
le  docteur  Mialhe.    Paris  :  G.  Masson,  1879.    8vo,  PP-  99- 
Researches  on  digestion,  assimilation  and  organic  or  vital  oxidation. 
This  essay  has  been  honored  with  a  gold  medal  by  the  French  Academy  of 
Sciences,  April  23,  1877.  If  's  a  review  of  the  labors  of  physiologists  and  of 
observations  made  by  the  author  on  the  subjects  indicated  in  the  title,  but  more 
especially  with  regard  to  their  influence  on  the  secretion  of  sugar  through  the  urine. 
The  digestion  and  assimilation  of  amylaceous,  saccharine  and  albuminous  matters 
and  the  destruction  of  the  sugar  in  the  organism  are  considered  at  length  ;  the 
modifications  or  changes,  either  partial  or  complete,  which  the  organic  acids  undergo 
in  the  animal  economy  are  reviewed  ;  and,  after  some  remarks  on  respiration  and 
on  the  chemical  influence  upon  the  animal  organism  of  alkalies  and  of  carbonic 
acid,  the  author  proceeds  to  his  observations  on  diabetes  mellitus,  and  urges  the 
employment  of  alkalies,  as  well  as  hygienic  and  dietetic  measures,  as  the  proper 
remedies  for  affording  relief  and  effecting  a  cure. 
Etude  sur  le  groupe  des  aphides  et  en  particulier  sur  les  pucerons  du  terehinthe  et  du 
lentisque.  Par  L.  Courchet,  Pharmacier  de  Premiere  Classe.  Montpellier  i 
Boehm  et  Fils,  1878.    4mo.,  pp.  £6. 
Observations  on  the  group  of  aphidae,  and  particularly  on  the  plantlice  of  the 
turpentine  pistacia  and  the  lentisk. 
This  is  an  interesting  and  very  creditable  investigation  into  the  development  of 
the  aphidae  inhabiting  the  two  trees  named.  The  essay  is  accompanied  by  three 
lithographic  plates  of  the  third  generation  of  these  insects,  and  of  their  antenna?,, 
wings  and  the  galls  which  they  produce  upon  the  leaves  of  the  two  trees. 
Proceedings  of  the  Eighth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Ne<w  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, held  in  Elizabeth,  May  15,  1878.  Camden,  N.J.  8vo.,  pp.  48. 
An  account  of  the  meeting  will  be  found  on  p.  316  of  our  last  volume.  The 
pamphlet  before  us  contains  the  minutes,  reports  and  other  matters  usually  found 
in  such  publications,  and  the  following  papers  which  were  read  at  the  meet- 
ing:  Pharmacy  <vs.  Quackery,  by  H.  P.  Reynolds;  Practicality,  by  D.  W.  Brant  > 
Hypophosphite  of  Zinc,  a  new  remedy,  by  R.  W.  Gardner,  and  Syrups  of  the 
hypophosphites,  by  Jas.  W.  Mercein.  The  Association  numbers  about  175  mem- 
bers.   The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Princeton,  May  21st  next. 
Zur  Kenntniss  einzelner  chemischer  Bestandtheile  der  Weiden  und  deren  pathologischen 
Gebilde,  und  uber  einige  React ionen  mit  Gerbstojfen  und  denen  ^veruoandten  Korpern* 
Von  Magister  Edwin  Johanson 
Contributions  to  the  knowledge  of  some  chemical  constituents  of  the  willows, 
and  of  their  pathological  excrescences  (galls),  and  on  some  reactions  with  tan- 
nins and  allied  compounds. 
This  is  a  reprint  of  an  essay  published  in  "Archiv  der  Pharmacie."  The  ex- 
periments were  made  in  the  laboratory  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  at  Dorpat, 
