Am.  Jour  Phariri. 
Nov.,  1879 
Reviews y  etc. — Obituary. 
SIS 
of  Thevetia  and  of  Geissospermum,  under  the  heading  Oleander.  Drosera,  Lami- 
naria,  Gynocardia,  or  Chaulmugra-seed,  and  Pussiflora,  appear  under  separate  art- 
icles and  at  their  respective  places  as  allied  drugs,  amongst  others  of  more  or  less  note, 
Rhamnus  Purshiana.  Of  chemicals,  a  number  of  quinia  salts  are  added,  together 
with  their  mode  of  preparation  and  salient  properties.  The  extended  notice  of 
thymol,  under  Oleum  Thymi,  will  be  received  with  much  interest,  as  this  powerful 
antiseptic  is  coming  daily  more  into  use.  Amongst  pharmaceuticals  we  notice, 
under  the  separate  heading  of  Elixiria,  the  formulas  of  the  leading  preparations  of 
that  class  as  adopted  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,-  also,  all  the 
articles  of  the  German  Pharmacopoeia  have  been  introduced  which  were  not  noticed 
before,  as  well  as  many  others  from  the  French  Codex.  The  Index  has  been  largely 
swelled  by  references,  partly  omitted  in  the  first  edition,  and  the  greatest  part  new, 
including  many  synonyms  called  for  by  changes  in  nomenclature  and  names  in  dif- 
ferent foreign  languages.  The  number  of  illustrations  has  been  increased  by  nearly 
forty  new  wood-cuts,  the  larger  part  of  them  attached  to  the  descriptions  of  drugs 
derived  from  our  indigenous  plants,  serving  as  most  appropriate  aids  to  their  identi- 
fication. 
After  having  gone  carefully  through  the  volume,  we  must  admit  that  the  authors 
have  labored  faithfully,  and  with  success,  in  maintaining  the  high  character  of  their 
work  as  a  compendium  meeting  the  requirements  of  the  day,  to  which  one  can  safely 
turn  in  quest  of  the  latest  information  concerning  everything  worthy  of  notice  in 
connection  with  Pharmacy,  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics. 
Chas  Mohr. 
Mobile,  Ala.,  October,  1879. 
OBITUARY. 
Frederick  Mohr,  Ph.D.,  M.D. — After  an  illness  of  four  days,  commencing 
with  pneumonia,  the  earthly  career  of  a  man  was  terminated  at  Bonn,  Germany, 
September  28th,  whose  numerous  contributions  to  pharmacy,  chemistry,  geology 
and  other  branches  of  the  natural  sciences  have  placed  him  in  the  foremost  ranks  of 
scientific  investigators.  Charles  Frederick  Mohr  was  born  at  Coblence  November 
4th,  1806,  and,  after  having  received  a  thorough  preliminary  education,  became  an 
apprentice  in  pharmacy  in  the  store  of  his  father.  In  1828,  he  went  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Heidelberg,  where  he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of  natural  sciences,  and 
more  particularly  of  chemistry  under  Gmelin's  guidance,  and  afterwards  graduated 
as  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  He  subsequently  studied  at  the  Universities  of  Bonn  and 
Berlin,  married  in  1833,  became  the  successor  of  his  father  on  the  death  of  the  latter 
•in  1840,  and  more  recently  accepted  the  professorship  of  Pharmaceutical  Chemistry 
at  the  University  of  Bonn,  in  which  position  he  was  active  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
His  first  literary  production  dates  from  the  year  1837,  when  he  published  an  essay 
on  the  nature  of  caloric  and  the  conservation  of  force,  the  views  then  advanced  by 
him  being  now  generally  adopted.  In  the  same  year  he  accepted  the  task  of  com- 
pleting the  Pharmacopcea  Universalis,  projected  by  P.  L.  Geiger,  who  died  in  Janu- 
