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Reviews. 
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received  attention.  Nor  has  the  practical  pharmacy,  the  best  method  of  pre- 
paring and  exhibiting  the  remedy,  been  treated. 
Part  II. — The  physiological  and  therapeutic  action  is  likewise  a  compilation 
from  standard  works  on  therapeutics  and  pharmacology,  and  not  a  single  origi- 
nal experiment  is  described.  The  physiological  action  of  Kola  is  undoubtedly 
due  to  the  caffeine  and  the  tannin  contained  therein.  It  is  attempted  here  to 
assign  undue  importance  to  the  physiological  action  of  the  slight  amounts  of 
theo-bromine  and  the  glucoside,  kolanin,  present  in  the  Kola-red  of  Heckel. 
Part  III. — A  clinical  study  of  Kola  is  a  reprint  of  an  able  article  by  Dr.  John 
V.  Shoemaker,  citing  a  number  of  cases  in  which  Kola  had  been  exhibited 
with  benefit. 
The  closing  part,  a  chronological  index  of  the  literature  relating  to  Kola, 
is,  perhaps,  to  the  student  of  pharmacognosy,  the  most  valuable. 
G.  M.  B. 
Organic  Chemistry,  Part  I.  By  W.  H.  Perkin,  Jr.,  and  F.  Stanly  Kipping. 
Philadelphia  :    J.  B.  Lippincott  Company.    1895.    Pp.  302. 
This  work  is  designed  for  advanced  classes  as  an  introduction  to  organic 
chemistry. 
Part  I  constitutes  the  whole  of  the  present  volume,  and  "deals  with  the 
fatty  compounds."  It  contains  a  general  account  of  the  methods  most  fre- 
quent^ employed  in  the  separation,  purification  and  analysis  of  organic  com- 
pounds, and  in  the  determination  of  molecular  weight 
The  preparation  and  properties  of  typical  compounds  are  then  described, 
attention  being  directed  to  those  changes  which  come  under  the  heading  of 
general  reactions  rather  than  to  isolated  facts  regarding  particular  substances. 
By  this  means  practical  exercises  accompany  theoretical  considerations. 
Considering  the  size  of  the  volume,  a  vast  amount  of  valuable  information  is 
condensed  into  it,  and  it  can  be  recommended  to  those  taking  an  advanced 
course  in  organic  chemistry,  as  well  as  to  teachers  as  a  work  of  reference. 
Die  Chemie  der  Koheenhydrate  und  ihre  Bedeuntung  fur  die 
Physioeogie.  Rede,  gehalten  zur  Feier  des  Stiftungstages  der  militararzt- 
lichen  Bildungs-Anstalten,  am  2.  August,  1894.  Von  Professor  Dr.  Emil 
Fischer.    Berlin,  1894.    Verlag  von  August  Hirschwald. 
This  address  of  thirty-six  pages  deals  with  the  history  of  the  carbohydrates 
during  its  greater  part,  and  then  discusses  the  theories  of  the  present  day. 
FORMUEAIRE  DES  MEDICAMENTS  NOUVEAUX  ET  DES  MEDICATIONS  NOU- 
VEEEES  pour  1S95.  Par  H.  Bocquillon-Iyimousin.  The  sixth  edition  of  this 
work  contains  the  following  additions,  chiefly  in  the  line  of  synthetic  reme- 
dies :  Alangine,  Ales pictum,  Alphol,  Antipyonine,  Bromethylformine,  Acide 
cathariinic,  Chlorate  de  soude,  Cristalline,  Diaphtol,  Di-iodoforme,  Ferratine, 
Gaiacol-iodoforme,  Gallate  de  mercure,  Glycerophosphates,  Glycozone,  Iodo- 
formine,  Iodure  de  Rubidium,  Lore" tine,  Lycetol,  Manacine,  Naphtol  di-iodide, 
Nectandra  amara,  Neurodine  Paico,  Paraforme,  Pesol,  Salicetol,  Saturnine, 
Serotherapie,  Sue  pulmonaire,  Sidphocafeate  de  soude,  Tamial,  Thermodine, 
Thioforme,  Vasogene.  Some  of  these  are  not  new  to  the  American  pharmacist, 
for  instance,  sodium  chlorate.  It,  however,  has  recently  attracted  some  atten- 
tion in  France  as  a  remedy  in  cancer  of  the  stomach  ;  it  is  stated  to  be  less  toxic 
