288 
Reviews,  etc. 
A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1879 
As  not  belonging  to  our  province,  we  have  refrained  from  commencing  upon  ail 
that  in  the  work  which  is  connected  with  therapeutics  and  pharmacodynamics,  treated 
under  the  headings  Physiological  Action  and  Medical  Uses,  to  which  a  fully  equal 
share  of  the  pages  of  the  work  is  given,  so  as  to  render  it  of  not  less  importance  to 
the  practitioner  than  to  the  pharmacist. 
We  congratulate  the  authors  upon  their  success  in  having  brought  to  a  close  a 
work  which  must  inevitably  take  its  place  as  one  of  the  most  important  contributions 
to  medical  and  pharmaceutical  literature.  The  publishers  have  done  full  justice  to 
the  work  in  the  material  and  typography  of  the  book,  which  leave  nothing  to  be 
desired.  Chas.  Mohe. 
Mobile,  Ala  ,  April,  1879. 
Chemistry,  General,  Medical  and  Pharmaceutical,  including  the  Chemistry  of  the  if.  S. 
Pharmacopeia.    A  Manual  of  the  General  Principles  of  the  Science,  and  their 
Applications  in  Medicine  and  Pharmacy.    By  John  Attfield,  M.  A.,  Ph.D 
Eighth  edition.     Revised  by  the  Author.    Philadelphia:  Henry  C.  Lea.  1879. 
i2mo,  pp.  697.    Price,  cloth  $2.50,  leather  $3.00. 
We  have  repeatedly  expressed  our  favorable  opinion  of  this  work,  and  on  the 
appearance  of  a  new  edition  of  it,  little  else  remains  for  us  to  say,  except  that  we 
expect  this  eighth  edition  to  be  as  indispensable  to  us  as  the  seventh  and  previous 
editions  have  been.  While  the  general  plan  and  arrangement  has  been  adhered  to,  new 
matter  has  been  added  covering  the  observations  made  since  the  former  edition. 
The  present  differs  from  the  preceding  one  chiefly  in  these  alterations,  and  in  about 
ten  pages  of  useful  tables  added  in  the  appendix. 
We  observe  that  on  page  395,  where  the  preparation  of  resin  of  podophyllum  is 
described,  the  author  forgot  to  strike  out  the  incorrect  sentence,  "  No  acid  is  ordered 
in  U.  S.  P."  On  p.  419  the  composition  of  jalap  resin  is  not  correctly  stated. 
Mayer's  jalapin  was  obtained  from  Ipomoea  orizabensis,  and  the  resin  of  scammony 
was  pronounced  identical  with  it  by  Keller.  Kayser's  rhodeoretin  is  Mayer's  con- 
volvulin,  and  obtained  from  true  jalap,  Ipomoea  purga.  That  portion  of  crude 
jalap  resin  which  is  soluble  in  ether  is  stated  by  Kayser  and  Sandrode  to  be  soluble 
in  alkalies,  from  which  solutions  it  is  reprecipitated  by  acid  ;  this  resin  connot  there- 
fore be  identical  with  jalapin. 
The  following  pamphlets  have  been  received  : 
The  Treatment  of  Genito-urinary  Organsy  etc.    By  J.  J.  Caldwell,  M.  D. 
Ttventy-sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Pennsylvania  Training  School for  Feeble-minded 
Children,  Media,  Delaware  county.     8vo,  pp.  23. 
Circular  of  Information  Relating  to  the  Pennsylvania  Training  School  for  Feeble- 
minded Children,  1879.    8vo,  pp.  35. 
An  Address  upon  the  Life  and  Character  oj  Lunsford  Pitts  Yandell,  M.D.    By  Rich, 
O.  Cowling,  A.M.,  M.D.    1879.    vo-  PP-  IO- 
Opium  as  a  Tonic  and  Alterative,  and  Its  Hypodermic  Use,  etc.    By  B.  A.  Pope 
M.D.    vo.  pp.  14. 
