284  Editorial,— Reviews,  etc.  { km'A°^Tm 
m  our  attempt  of  a  condensed  review  of  the  plan  upon  which  it  has  been  con- 
structed and  the  manner  in  which  the  overwhelming  mass  of  matter  has  been 
-digested  and  made  available.  We  intend  to  draw  the  attention  of  our  brother 
pharmacists  to  this  publication,  which  cannot  fail  to  exercise  a  wide-spread  and  marked 
Influence  upon  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  their  vocation.  It  is  from  this  stand- 
point that  we  shall  endeavor  to  enable  the  reader  to  form  an  idea  of  how  the  authors 
have  succeeded  in  their  arduous  task. 
The  material  embodied  in  the  work  is  truly  immense,  as  shown  alone  by  the 
almost  countless  number  of  subjects  treated.  All  of  the  officinal  crude  drugs, 
pharmaceutical  preparations  and  chemicals  recognized  by  the  U.  S.  P.  and  B.  P.  are 
fully  considered,  and  also  those  of  the  G.  Ph.,  and  many  of  the  French  Codex  are 
mentioned  to  a  greater  or  less  extent.  The  number  of  unofficinal  articles  treated  of  is 
very  large,  receiving  in  every  case  that  attention  deserved  by  their  interest  in  connec- 
tion with  pharmacy  and  medicine.  The  many  new  articles  which  have  been  brought 
sto  notice  as  remedial  agents  within  the  last  ten  or  fifteen  years  are  embodied,  with  a 
Solanum  Dulcamara,  Lin.    Branch  and  section  of  stem. 
due  consideration  of  their  already  established  or  promised  merit.  Each  article  is 
headed  by  the  Latin  name,  if  officinal,  as  adopted  by  the  U.  S.  P.  and  B.  Ph.,  fol- 
lowed by  Latin  synonyms  employed  in  the  different  standard  works  or  used  by 
earlier  writers,  also  the  French  and  German  names  and  proper  English  appellations. 
The  natural  history,  chemical  properties  and  uses  are  treated  under  the  separate 
headings  of  Origin,  Description,  Properties,  Constituents,  Composition,  Impurities, 
Adulterations,  Uses  in  Pharmacy  and  Medicine,  and  closing  with  a  consideration 
of  the  doses  in  which  the  drug  is  administered. 
