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many  other  smaller  places  like  Dorozsma,  Algyo,  Tayse.  Nine  chemists'  shops 
were  destroyed  by  the  flood. 
According  to  telegraphic  despatches  from  the  burgermaster  of  Szegedin  only  two 
pharmaceutical  chemists,  out  of  eight  formerly  existing  in  this  town,  are  in  proper 
condition  to  answer  the  numerous  calls  for  physics. 
The  former  possessors  of  their  once  flourishing,  now  totally  destroyed,  business,, 
have  been  temporarily  provided  with  articles  the  most  necessary  (thanks  to  the  lib- 
eral charitable  collections  of  the  whole  country),  but  they  are  in  the  most  extreme 
need  of  help  for  the  re-opening  of  their  shops.  To  lend  a  willing  hand  towards 
this  duty  is  keenly  felt  by  the  Board  of  the  United  Pharmaceutical  Societies  in 
Hungary;  each  of  those  have  done  their  duty  to  the  extent  of  their  ability.  How- 
ever, the  misery  is  so  great  that,  although  the  chemists  of  our  country  do  help  with 
all  their  force,  it  is  not  enough  for  the  suffering  occasioned.  The  Board  of  the 
United  Pharmaceutical  Societies  in  Hungary,  therefore,  most  fervently  request  'the 
kind  help  of  their  profession  elsewhere  for  our  poor  ruined  brothers  in  Hungary,, 
and  trust  not  to  do  so  in  vain,  as  the  evidence  of  English  Christian  charity  is  known 
all  over  the  world. 
Contributions  of  any  kind,  in  money  or  in  physics,  will  be  most  thankfully 
received  by  Your  thankful  Colleague, 
Gustav  Jarmay, 
Pharmaceutical  Chemist  in  Budapest,  Hungary,  and  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  in  Hungary. 
Contributions  for  the  relief  of  the  sufferers  by  the  flood  in  Hungary  will  be 
received  by  H.  H.  Wolle,  Business  Editor  of  this  Journal,  and  forwarded  to  the 
President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  in  Hungary. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
The  National  Dispensatory,  containing  the  natural  history,  chemistry,  pharmacy,, 
action  and  uses  of  medicines  recognized  in  the  Pharmacopoeias  of  the  U.  S.  and 
Gr.  Br.  By  Alfred  Stille,  M.D  ,  and  John  M.  Maisch,  Ph  D.  Philadelphia:  H.  C. 
Lea.  1879.  8vo,  pp.  r628.  Price,  in  cloth,  $6.75,  or  in  leather,  $7.50,  or  bound 
in  two  parts,  cloth,  $7.00,  leather,  $8.25. 
The  American  pharmacists  have  looked  with  an  anxious  interest  for  the  appear- 
ance of  this  work,  the  result  of  the  conjoined  labors  of  men  of  known  repute  as 
writers  in  their  respective  fields  of  therapeutics  and  pharmacy.  This  is  not  sur- 
prising, considering  that  since  the  last  fifteen  years  they  have  been  almost  left  with- 
out a  guide  to  which  they  could  refer  when  confronted  by  one  of  the  multitude  of 
new  subjects  which  have  appeared  in  the  course  of  the  rapid  progress  of  science 
made  during  that  time  with  their  claims  as  remedial  agents.  To  gain  the  necessary 
information  about  them  involved  a  search  through  a  voluminous  periodical  literature, 
a  task  difficult  for  all  and  impossible  for  many.  To  meet  the  wants  of  the  phar- 
macist and  the  physician  of  the  present  day  in  a  "  manner  concise  and  complete  by  a 
work  of  reference  to  which  the  inquirer  might  turn  with  the  certainty  of  finding 
everything  which  experience  has  stored  up  as  worthy  of  confidence  in  connection 
with  pharmacy,  the  action  and  uses  of  medicines,"  was  the  aim  of  the  authors.  It 
cannot  be  our  object  to  give  a  full  critical  account  of  a  work  of  such  a  wide  scope 
