Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
May,  1895. 
Reviews. 
267 
The  Association  was  also  treated  to  a  rather  excessive  dose  of  cod-liver  oil. 
The  Publishing  Committee  will  make  no  mistake  to  let  it  be  known  that  only 
papers  of  merit  will  be  printed. 
Cod-liver  Oil  and  Chemistry.  By  F.  Peckel  Holier,  Ph.D.,  London, 
and  Christiania,  Norway,  Peter  Moller  ;  and  can  be  had  from  W.  H.  SchieffeWn 
&  Co.,  New  York,  and  from  A.  T.  Moller  &  Co.,  Copenhagen.  1895. 
The  author  apparently  does  not  try  to  conceal  the  fact  that  this  large  work 
of  something  over  600  pages  is  intended  to  be  indirectly  an  advertisement. 
With  this  knowledge  we  are  still  favorably  impressed  with  the  book.  It  gives, 
in  the  100  pages  devoted  to  cod-liver  oil,  some  facts  that  it  will  be  difficult  to 
controvert  ;  at  the  same  time  it  is  refreshing  to  read  some  of  the  theories 
advanced  in  favor  of  the  administration  of  a  pure  cod- liver  oil.  The  author 
relegates  nearly  all  of  the  "  active  principles  "  which  have  *been  discovered  at 
one  time  or  another  to  the  category  of  decomposition  products,  and  we  believe 
he  is  about  right. 
Proceedings  of  the  Fifteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  North 
Carolina  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Asheville,  1894. 
The  proceedings  of  this  Association  make  a  creditable  showing  with  four 
original  papers  and  some  other  interesting  matter,  including  the  Report  of  the 
North  Carolina  Pharmacy  Board. 
Proceedings  of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
at  its  Twelfth  Annual  Meeting,  Held  at  Detroit,  1894. 
Five  original  communications  have  been  allowed  to  appear  in  the  appen- 
dix. They  are,  however,  well  worth  reading,  and  it  is  a  pity  they  were 
given  such  an  inconspicuous  position.  We  have  some  doubts  about  the  advi- 
sability of  printing  portraits  of  living  members  in  proceedings  of  this  kind  ; 
particularly  when,  as  in  this  case,  one  of  the  former  presidents  is  made  to  face 
an  advertisement  of  Duffy's  Malt  Whisky,  another  to  face  Ayers'  Remedies, 
and  so  on  through  the  list  to  the  end,  where  we  read  of  "  the  greatest  medioal 
discovery  of  the  age."  Are  the  Michigan  pharmacists  trying  to  deplete  the 
coffers  of  the  proprietary  manufacturers,  that  they  admit  their  "display" 
advertisements  ? 
Forschungs-Berichte  uber  Lebensmittel  und  ihre  Beziehungen 
zur  Hygiene,  uber  Fchense  Chemie  und  Pharmakognosie.  Heft  4, 
1895. 
The  most  noteworthy  and  timely  article  in  this  issue  is  concerning  "The 
Action  of  Formalin  on  Foods." 
Annual  Report  for  the  Year  1894.    By  E.  Merck,  Darmstadt. 
This  report  is  divided  into  Original  Communications,  of  which  there  are  six; 
Preparations,  of  which  a  great  number  of  new  ones  are  mentioned  ;  and  Drugs. 
Sketches  of  Wonderland.    By  Olin  D.  Wheeler. 
Although  the  pamphlet  is  published  in  the  interest  of  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railroad,  the  illustrations  alone  are  worth  the  trouble  and  expense  of  sending 
six  cents  in  stamps  (to  cover  postage)  to  Chas.  S.  Fee,  General  Passenger  and 
Ticket  Agent  N.  P.  R.  R.,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  It  may  at  the  same  time  be  useful 
to  some  members  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  who  are  going  to  Denver. 
