48o 
Reviews,  etc. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
\       Sept.,  1879. 
Turnbull,  M.D.,  Ph.G.,  Aural  Surgeon  to  Jefferson  Medical  Hospital ;  Physi- 
cian to  the  Department  of  Diseases  of  the  Eye  and  Ear,  Howard  Hospital,  Phil- 
adelphia, etc.  Second  edition,  revised  and  enlarged,  with  27  illustrations.  Phil- 
adelphia :  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1879.     i2mo,  pp.  322.    Price,  $150. 
Although  this  book  is  primarily  intended  for  the  physician,  the  pharmacist  will 
find  in  it  a  great  deal  of  direct  interest  to  him  ;  more  particularly  those  portions 
which  relate  to  the  history,  mode  of  preparation,  properties  and  purities  of  the  vari- 
ous compounds  which  have  been  used  for  producing  anaesthesia,  and  to  the  antidotes 
in  cases  of  poisoning  from  their  use.  The  first  edition  was  exhausted  in  the  course 
of  a  year,  and  the  present  one  has  been  enlarged  with  all  the  discoveries  and  new- 
observations  which  have  been  made  in  the  meantime. 
The  Summer  and  its  Diseases.  By  Jas.  C.  Wilson,  M.D  ,  Physician  to  the  Philadel- 
phia Hospital  and  to  the  hospital  of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College.  Philadelphia  : 
Lindsay  &  Blalciston,  1879.    Pp-  1  60.    Price,  50  cents. 
This  is  one  of  the  ''American  Health  Primers,"  very  attractively  written  and  full 
of  sound  advice.  The  diseases  incidental  to  summer  are  discussed  in  six  chapters 
on  sun-stroke  and  heat  fever,  on  summer  diarrhoea  and  dysentery,  cholera  infan- 
tum, summer  and  autumnal  fevers,  summer  colds  and  hayasthma,  and  on  the  skin 
in  summer  and  its  diseases. 
The  following  pamphlets  have  been  received: 
Fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  Exercises  of  the  Thirteenth 
Annual  Commencement  of  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  etc.  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
1879.    ^vo,  PP-  29- 
Proceedings  of  the  Convention  of  Druggists  held  in  Utica  May  21,  1879.  Proceedings, 
of  the  Ne-iv  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  First  Annual  Meeting,  Utica, 
May  21st  and  22d,  etc.    New  York,  1879.    8vo,  PP-  88. 
This  is  accompanied  by  a  metric  chart  from  the  Metric  Bureau  at  Boston,  and 
by  Prof.  Oldberg's  pamphlet  on  metric  weights  and  measures  for  medical  and  phar- 
macal  purposes. 
Proceedings  of  the  Texas  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Meeting  held  in 
Dallas,  May  1st  and  id,  1879.    Galveston.     8vo,  pp.  1879. 
Accompanied  by  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Association. 
Sur  le  dosage  de  Puree.    Par  M.  C.  Mehu. 
On  the  estimation  of  urea. 
The  author  uses  for  this  purpose  hypobromite  of  sodium,  as  proposed  by  Knop 
in  1871,  whereby  nitrogen  is  evolved,  the  full  theoretical  quantity  of  which  is 
obtained  after  the  previous  addition  of  glucose  to  the  urine  5  without  this  addition 
there  is  a  deficiency  of  about  8  per  cent,  of  nitrogen. 
Other  Symptoms  of  Nervous  Exhaustion  [Neurasthenia).  By  Geo.  M.  Beard,  A.M., 
M  D.    Chicago,  1879.    8vo.,  pp.  16. 
Reprint  from  the  "Journal  of  Nervous  and  Mental  Disease,"  April. 
