3  »4 
Reviews ,  etc. 
Am.  Jou7.  Pharns, 
July,  1879. 
Emanuel  Goodman,  Cincinnati,  O.  [The  Balsam  Compounds);  J.  Peter  Heister, 
Cincinnati,  O.  [Artesian  Well  Water);  Phillip  Hoglan,  Newcomerstown,  O.  [The 
Pharmacist);  Frank  T.  Johnson,  Bucyrus,  O.  [Berberis  aquifolium);  Ferdinand 
Kinzbach,  Cincinnati,  O.  [Gamboge);  Louis  Klayer,  Cincinnati  O.  [Euphorbia 
Americana  [A  merican  Ipecac^);  Charles  A.  Lehrer,  Sandusky,  O.  [The  Scale  Com- 
pounds of  Iron);  B.  H.  Overbeck,  Cincinnati,  O.  [Helonias  dioica,  nvith  approximate 
analysis);  Ernst  A.  Pohlmeyer,  Cincinnati,  O.  [Glycerin);  Sebastian  Scheffner, 
[The  Balsam  of  Liquidambar  Styraciflua)  ;  Herman  Serodino,  Jr  ,  Cincinnati,  O. 
[Ricinus  Communis);  Chas.  A.  Stammel,  Cheviot,  O.  [Specific  Gravity);  William 
H.  Sudhoff,  Richmond,  O.  [Senna). 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Long  Life  and  Hohjq  to  Reach  It.  By  Jos.  G.  Richardson,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Hygi- 
ene in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1879. 
i6mo,  pp.  160.    Price  50  cents. 
This  is  the  second  of  the  series  of  "American  Health  Primers,"  the  publication 
of  which  we  announced  in  our  last  number,  p.  334.  It  discusses  the  causes  of  dis- 
ease, heat  and  cold,  contagion,  clothing,  air,  water,  baths,  dwellings,  food  and  drink^ 
exercise,  sleep,  mental  power,  etc.,  and  is  written  in  an  instructive  and  entertaining 
manner,  which  will  commend  itself  to  every  intelligent  reader. 
Elements  of  Modern  Chemistry.  By  Adolphe  Wurtz,  Member  of  the  Institute,  etc. 
Translated  and  edited,  with  the  approbation  of  the  author,  from  the  fourth  French 
edition,  by  Wm  H.  Greene,  M.D.,  formerly  Demonstrator  of  Chemistry  in  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College,  etc.  Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co  ,  1879.  I2mo> 
pp.  687. 
Although  there  is  no  lack  of  elementary  treatises  on  chemistry,  we  believe  that 
the  editor  has  done  good  service  in  making  this  work  of  the  celebrated  French 
chemist  accessible  to  the  American  student.  It  opens  in  an  introductory  chapter 
with  the  consideration  of  the  physical  and  chemical  forces,  the  various  chemical 
laws,  nomenclature  and  notation,  and  proceeds  then  to  the  various  elements,  com- 
mencing with  the  non-metallic  in  the  following  order:  hydrogen,  oxygen,  sulphur, 
selenium,  tellurium,  chlorine,  bromine,  iodine,  fluorine,  nitrogen,  phosphorus,  arse- 
nic, antimony,  boron,  silicon  and  carbon.  Next  the  theory  of  atomicity  is  explained, 
which  is  followed  by  a  chapter  on  the  general  characters  of  the  metals  and  their 
compounds,  and  by  the  description  of  the  various  metals.  This  completes  the  inor- 
ganic chemistry,  which  occupies  398  pages. 
The  remainder  of  the  volume  is  devoted  to  organic  chemistry,  the  descriptive 
portion  being  preceded  by  a  chapter  on  elementary  analysis  and  a  concise  but  full 
account  of  the  theories  relating  to  the  constitution  of  the  organic  compounds.  The 
latter  are  grouped  together  as  compounds  of  cyanogen,  monatomic  alcohols  and 
their  derivatives,  diatomic  alcohols  or  glycols,  alcohols  of  higher  atomicity,  aromatic 
compounds,  natural  alkaloids,  albuminoids  and  the  more  important  products  of  dis- 
assimilation  of  the  animal  economy. 
The  work  is  embellished  with  1 32  illustrations,  mostly  of  lecture  experiments  and 
of  industrial  processes,  and  with  a  colored  plate  illustrating  spectrum  analysis. 
We  consider  this  work  admirably  adapted  for  a  text-book  and  well  calculated  to 
create  in  the  student  a  love  for  chemistry,  surrounding  as  it  does  the  dry  facts  with 
judiciously  selected  experiments  and  with  interesting  accounts  of  the  application  of 
chemical  laws.  In  addition  to  this,  the  book  is  well  printed,  the  arrangement  of  the 
text  is  very  convenient,  and,  in  short,  both  the  editor  and  the  publishers  have  done 
their  part  well  to  make  it  useful  as  well  as  attractive. 
