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Book  Reviews. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      March,  1913. 
to  look  up  the  recorded  work  of  any  one  individual.  Aside  from 
comparatively  few  shortcomings  in  this  direction,  however,  the  book 
is  a  really  valuable  contribution  to  the  literature  of  pharmacy  and 
as  a  book  of  references  will  be  consulted  for  many  years  to  come. 
M.  I.  W. 
Digest  of  Laws  and  Regulations  in  Force  in  the  United 
States  Relating  to  the  Possession,  Use,  Sale  and  Manufac- 
ture of  Poisons  and  Habit-forming  Drugs.  By  Martin  I.  Wil- 
bert  and  Murray  Gait  Motter.  Prepared  by  direction  of  the  Sur- 
geon General.    Washington,  Government  Printing  Office,  1912. 
This  publication  appears  as  Public  Health  Bulletin  No.  56  and 
is  evidently  one  of  a  series  of  Bulletins  designed  to  present  a  com- 
parative reflection  of  laws  bearing  on  public  health  problems.  Pre- 
vious publications  enumerated  in  the  list  of  "  Public  Health  Bulle- 
tins "  include :  Analysis  of  the  laws  and  regulations  relating  to  the 
organization  powers  and  duties  of  health  authorities :  An  analysis 
of  the  laws  and  regulations  relating  to  vaccination :  An  analysis 
of  the  laws  and  regulations  relating  to  ophthalmia  neonatorum ;  and : 
A  digest  of  the  laws  and  regulations  relating  to  the  reporting  of  cases 
of  sickness.  The  present  publication  is  of  immediate  and  direct 
interest  to  pharmacists  and  emphasizes,  more  than  any  one  other 
available  publication  the  pressing  need  for  greater  uniformity  in 
Federal  and  State  laws  relating  to  the  manufacture,  sale  and  use 
of  poisons  and  habit-forming  drugs  as  well  as  a  correlation  of  the 
food  and  drug  laws  designed  to  restrict  the  sale  of  articles  that  may 
contain  or  be  contaminated  with  substances  that  can  properly  be 
considered  as  being  poisonous  or  deleterious  in  any  form. 
Some  idea  regarding  the  comprehensiveness  of  the  contained 
material  may  be  had  from  the  following  list  of  tables  that  are 
included  in  the  Introduction : 
Table  showing  comparative  number  of  cases  of  suicide  and  the 
number  of  deaths  from  acute  and  chronic  poisoning  and  from  alco- 
holism in  the  registration  area,  1900  to  19 10. 
List  of  general  definitions  embodied  in  the  laws  designed  to 
restrict  the  sale  of  poisons. 
List  of  substances  enumerated  in  the  laws  designed  to  restrict 
the  sale  of  poisons. 
Table  showing  the  requirements  embodied  in  the  laws  designed 
to  restrict  the  sale  of  poisons. 
Table  showing  requirements  relating  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy, 
