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Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1895. 
"The  Cleveland  Pharmaceutical  Association  have  unanimously  decided  to  recommend  : 
"(i)  To  all  drug-gists,  and  especially  to  their  members,  not  to  dispense  a  stronger  carbolic 
acid  than  No.  33,  except  on  ph5'sicians'  prescriptions. 
"(2)  To  all  physicians,  when  desiring  to  mix  carbolic  acid  with  fatty  bodies,  instead  of 
entrusting  such  dangerous  work  to  the  laitj-  (since  such  work  requires  professional  skill  to 
suit  each  case),  it  will  be  the  best  entrusted  to  the  proper  professional  expert — the  phar- 
macist. 
"  (3)  To  all  physicians  requiring  the  liquefied  carbolic  acid  as  hitherto  dispensed,  to  please 
specify  this  article  in  their  prescriptions  to  avoid  error  and  relieve  the  druggist  of  the  respon- 
sibility for  dispensing  it,  or  of  embarrassment  for  refusing  to  sell  without  prescription. 
"  (4)  All  druggists  desiring  electrotypes  of  the  label  may  obtain  them  by  applying  to  the 
committee. 
Nathan  Rosewater, 
P.  I.  Spenzer,  M  D., 
E.  A.  SCHELLEXTRAGER, 
Eugexe  R.  Selzer. 
T.  L.  SORDS, 
Comyyiittee." 
The  label  which  accompanies  the  circular  designates  the  solution  as  "  Strong 
Carbolic  Acid,  Fluid.  No.  33."  The  antidotes  are  given  and  also  the  direc- 
tions for  making  a  1  per  cent,  solution  by  mixing  one  tablespoonful  of  the 
solution  with  one  pint  of  water. 
We  can  subscribe  to  all  of  this  circular,  except  the  first  recommendation, 
which  is  that  druggists  shall  not  dispense  a  stronger  carbolic  acid  than  No.  33, 
except  in  physicians'  prescriptions. 
We  cannot  recommend  that  any  prescription  or  compound  be  suddenly 
reduced  to  one-third  strength  and  dispensed  without  any  legal  authority. 
This  is  the  kind  of  reasoning  employed  by  those  who  sell  weak  laudanum. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Pharmaceutical  and  Medical  Chemistry .  A  Text-Book  of  Chemistry  intended 
for  the  Use  of  Pharmaceutical  and  Medical  Students.  By  Samuel  P.  Sadtler, 
Ph.D.,  P.C.S.,  and  Henry  Trimble,  Ph. M.   f.  B.  Lippincott  Company.  1893. 
This  is  a  compendious  text-book  of  several  branches  of  chemistry,  filling 
nearly  oae  thousand  large  octavo  pages.  Its  issue,  in  these  generous  propor- 
tions, is  an  event  of  interest,  as  it  will  take  a  prominent  place  among  one- 
volume  publications  bearing  the  title  of  pharmaceutical  cheinistnT.  Its  authors 
are  severally  well  known  for  their  respective  publications,  and  their  conjoined 
names  have  therefore  a  favorable  introduction  to  students  and  practitioners  of 
medicine  and  of  pharmacy. 
The  work  furnishes  ninety  pages  upon  elementary  physics,  four  hundred  and 
thirty  pages  upon  inorganic  chemistry,  two  hundred  and  seventy-nine  pages 
upon  orgair  c  chemistry,  and  in  ninety-six  pages  gives  certain  data  for  chemical 
and  pharmaceutical  analysis.  The  style  throughout  is  direct,  clear  and  easy  ; 
the  treatment  of  subjects  is  that  of  simple  explanatory  slatement,  with  little 
discussion  of  theory,  and  altogether  without  citation  of  authorities. 
The  presentation  of  physics,  in  its  first  principles,  as  a  distinct  introductory 
part,  is  a  very  commendable  feature  for  such  a  general  text-book  as  this  is 
designed  to  be,  because  those  students  who  have  most  used  such  general  text- 
b.oks  have  conimonby  neglected  the  use  cf  any  separate  text-book  of  phj-sics 
