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suspend  or  revoke  the  registration  of  any  practicing  pharmacist,  after  due  notice 
and  trial  before  said  board."  This  provision  appears  for  the  first  time  in  a  phar- 
macy law.  Sec  11  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  district  attorney  of  the  county  to  prose- 
cute any  and  all  violations  of  the  act. 
The  Board  has  been  constituted  as  follows:  G.  M.  Baker,  M  .D.  (President),  and 
G.  A.  Newman,  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  ;  J.  D.  Rushmore,  M.D.,  and 
Audley  Haslett,  M.D.,  from  the  Medical  Society;  and  L.  E.  Nicot,  elected  on  joint 
ballot.  Mr.  Nicot  is  the  President  of  the  Kings  County  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
and  on  July  21st  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Pharmacy  Board. 
The  Potato-bug. — In  Mr.  Fahnestock's  paper,  published  on  page  296  of  our 
June  number,  it  is  stated  that  Cantharis  vittata,  the  potato-bug,  yielded  from  150 
grains  of  the  powder  two  grains  of  almost  pure  cantharidin.  A  medical  journal,  in 
quoting  these  results,  remarks:  "This  is  a  large  product,  and  no  doubt  these  pests 
will  be  increasingly  used  as  a  cheap  source  of  this  valuable  remedy."  Our  cotem- 
porary  is  evidently  under  the  impression  that  the  above  results  refer  to  the  Colorado 
potato-bug,  Doryphora  decemlineata,  which,  however,  does  not  contain  any  can- 
tharidin, according  to  the  observations  of  Mr.  L  Dembinski  (see  "Amer.  Journ. 
Pharm.,"  1877,  p.  550).  It  is  also  worthy  of  notice  that  Mr.  Fahnestock's  results 
•of  1^  per  cent,  of  cantharidin,  are  considerably  larger  than  those  obtained  by  Mr. 
Wm.  R.  Warner  ("Amer.  Journ.  Pharm.,"  1856,  p.  195),  whose  yield  from  Can- 
tharis vittata  was  only  0-40  per  cent.;  the  difference  in  the  result  is  doubtless  due,  at 
least  partly,  to  the  methods  of  assaying. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Memoranda  on  Poisons.  By  Thomas  H.  Tanner,  M.D.,  F.L.S.  Fourth  American 
from  the  last  London  enlarged  and  revised  edition.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  & 
Blakiston,  1879.    i6mo,  pp.  201.    Price,  cloth,  75  cents. 
On  a  former  occasion  we  have  called  attention  to  the  usefulness  of  this  little  work, 
which  in  the  present  edition  has  been  considerably  enlarged.  The  general  plan  of 
the  work  remains  unchanged,  but  much  new  matter  has  been  added,  and  the  more 
recent  observations  have  been  utilized  and  incorporated,  so  that  in  its  present  shape 
it  will  prove  to  be  even  more  useful  than  heretofore,  both  to  the  practitioner  and  the 
student  of  medicine. 
Pocket  Therapeutics  and  Dose  Book,  etc.    By  Morse  Stewart,  Jr.,  B  A.,  M.D.  Sec- 
ond edition.    Detroit,  Mich.:  George  D.  Stewart,  1878.    Price,  cloth,  $1. 
It  is  stated  on  the  title-page  that  the  book  contains  a  classification  and  explana- 
tion of  the  action  of  medicines  ;  the  minimum  and  maximum  doses  in  troy  weights 
with  their  equivalents  in  the  metric  weights;  index  and  definition  of  diseases  with 
their  appropriate  remedies  ;  genitive  endings  of  all  medicines  and  preparations  given 
in  italics;  index  of  common  and  pharmaceutical  names;  classification  of  symp- 
toms ;  poisons  and  their  antidotes.    The  dose  book  is  small  enough  to  be  carried  in 
