336 
Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1879. 
says,  "  If  it  were  my  fortune  (or  misfortune)  to  be  obliged  to  meet  the  competition  of 
one  of  these  would-be  druggists, instead  of  following  his  lead  in  reducing  prices,I  should 
at  once  offer  patent  medicines  at  the  bare  cost  of  laying  them  down  in  my  store,  and 
trust  to  my  reputation  to  carry  me  through  on  my  preparations  5  I  certainly  believe 
that  any  pharmacist  possessing  a  good  reputation  could  keep  his  trade  by  this  means. 
In  large  cities  I  can  only  suggest  a  combination  which  should  embrace,  if  possible, 
all  the  skilled  pharmacists  in  the  place,"  etc. 
The  manufacture  and  sale  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  by  wholesale  druggists 
and  others  is  discussed  by  Nathan  Dikeman.  We  extract  only  the  following,  which 
we  think  will  be  endorsed  by  all  true  pharmacists:  "  So  long  as  the  physician  calls 
for  these  various  special  manufactures,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  regular  officinal  rem- 
edies, they  might  as  well  be  kept  in  corner  groceries,  and  sold  like  rum,  sugar  and 
molasses,  and  requires  about  the  same  amount  of  talent  and  responsibility  to  dis- 
pense them.  It  seems  to  me  to  savor  very  strongly  of  quackery,  and  is  a  step  toward 
prescribing  patent  or  proprietary  medicines  ;  and  in  the  opinion  of  the  writer  all 
reputable  pharmacists  should  discountenance  their  adoption,  and  depend  upon  their 
own  skill  and  knowledge  to  provide  the  necessary  pharmaceutical  and  officinal  prep- 
arations, as  far  as  is  posible,  and  not  upon  the  skill  and  integrity  of  others." 
Proceedings  of  the  T enth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  and 
College  of  Pharmacy,  held  at  San  Francisco,  Jannary  9,  1879.    8vo,  PP«  42« 
Besides  the  matters  usually  contained  in  such  publications,  two  papers  are  published 
in  this  pamphlet,  one  by  Prof.  W.  M.  Searby  on  Pills  and  pill  excipients,  and  one  by 
S.  A.  McDonnell,  giving  the  results  of  the  qualitative  examination  of  a  San  Fran- 
cisco Cure  of  opium  habit,  which  contained  codeia,  sugar,  glycerin  and  anilin  red. 
Fifteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  oj  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  1879.    8vo,  pp.  56. 
Eighth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City 
of  Ne-uj  York,  1879.    8vo>  PP-  64- 
These  publications  contain  the  minutes,  addresses,  reports,  commencement  exer- 
cises, etc. 
A  Contribution  to  the  Hamatinic  Properties  of  Dialyzed  Iron.  By  Robert  Amory, 
M.  D.,  of  Longwood,  Mass.,  1879.  8vo,  PP-  7>  with  f*ve  plates,  handsomely 
executed  by  the  heliotype  process. 
This  is  a  reprint  from  the  Boston  "  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal  "  of  April  3d, 
in  which  the  author  reports  five  cases  of  anaemia  successfully  treated  with  dialyzed 
iron.  These  cases  are  more  particularly  interesting,  since  recently  diaiyzed  iron 
has  been  often  reported  as  worthless.  The  question  of  superiority  over  other  iron 
preparations  is  quite  a  different  one  5  perhaps  the  mode  of  administration,  etc  ,  may- 
have  a  decided  influence  on  its  effects,  as  on  those  of  other  medicines. 
