158  Reviews y  etc. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Jahresbericht  uber  die  Fortschritte  der  Pharmacognosies  Pharmacie  und  Toxicologie. 
Herausgegeben  von  Dr.  G.  Dragendorff,  Professor  in  Dorpat.    Neue  Folge,  12. 
Jahrgang,  1877.  Gottingen,  1878:  Vandenhoeck  &  Ruprecht.  8vo,  pp.  598. 
Annual  Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacognosy,  Pharmacy  and  Toxicology. 
The  well-deserved  reputation  which  this  annual  publication  has  earned  is  sustained 
by  the  volume  now  before  us,  which  contains  concise  and  critical  reports  on  all 
essays  possessing  pharmaceutical  interest  which  have  appeared  during  the  year  1877. 
The  convenient  arrangement  of  the  vast  material,  as  adopted  in  former  volumes,  has 
been  retained,  and  the  abstracts  have  been  made  with  the  accustomed  care  and  com- 
pleteness. On  page  483,  last  line,  the  work  "  Kinotinctur  "  should  be  "  Catechu- 
tinctur.'" 
The  entire  series  being  of  permanent  value  as  a  reliable  work  of  reference,  it  will 
doubtless  be  of  interest  to  many  of  our  readers  that  the  first  ten  volumes  of  this 
series  may  be  now  obtained  at  45  marcs,  which  is  rather  less  than  half  of  the  origi- 
nal publication  price. 
Pharmaceutiscbe  Chemie.    Von  F.  A.  Fluckiger.    Berlin,  1879  :  Rudolph  Gartner. 
i2mo,  pp.  910. 
Pharmaceutical  Chemistry. 
A  work  like  this  has  to  overcome  certain  difficulties,  which  are  discussed  by  the 
author  in  the  preface.  Not  bemg  intended  for  the  student  of  general  chemistry,  but 
merely  for  the  cultivation  of  chemistry  in  its  application  to  pharmacy,  a  knowledge 
of  the  general  chemical  laws  is  requisite  in  order  to  fully  appreciate  the  merits  of 
the  book.  In  regard  to  its  scope,  the  author  has  confined  himself  chiefly  to  those 
chemical  compounds  which  are  at  the  present  time  medicinally  employed  in  Europe. 
In  each  case  the  process  is  given  by  which  the  preparation  maybe  obtained,  omitting 
such  particulars  which  would  be  mainly  useful  to  the  tyro,  but  giving  many  practical 
hints  which  will  be  welcome  to  the  more  experienced  operator.  The  reactions 
occurring  in  the  process,  the  properties  of  the  compound  and  the  tests  for  purity  are 
concisely  and  fully  given,  always  keeping  in  view  that  the  work  is  not  intended  for 
the  beginner.    Each  article  is  accompanied  by  valuable  historical  notes. 
The  systematic  arrangement  may  be  seen  from  the  following  synopsis  of  the  dif- 
ferent chapters  :  Non-metallic  elements,  metals,  binary  non-metallic  compounds, 
group  of  cyanogen,  derivatives  of  marsh  gas,  alcohol  group,  non-aromatic  organic 
acids,  fats  and  soaps,  carbohydrates,  resins,  benzol  group,  volatile  oils  and  alkaloids. 
This  comprises  the  first  half  of  the  work,  the  second  half  being  devoted  to  the 
metallic  oxides  and  salts. 
The  work  will  be  duly  appreciated  by  the  intelligent  student  who  has  mastered 
•the  rudiments  of  the  science,  and  by  the  practical  apothecary  and  druggist  engaged 
f  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      Mar.,  1879. 
