Aui.  Jour.  Pliarm. ) 
aiay,  1883.  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
eago,  will  deliver  au  address  on  "The  Present  Status  and  Tendencies  of  the- 
Medical  Profession  and  Medical  Journalism,"  and  Dr.  Marcy  upon  "Jour- 
nalism devoted  to  the  protection  and  concentration  of  Medical  and  Surgical 
Science  in  special  departments." 
The  Philadelphia  Hospital  for  Skin  Diseases  has  had  added  to 
its  former  facilities  a  complete  system  of  baths  for  the  general  and  specific 
treatment  of  these  affections.  The  clinics  are  open  to  students,  and  the 
course  of  instruction  is  made  more  comprehensive  by  didactic  lectures. 
Correction. — Page  212,  line  5  from  bottom,  read  L.  C.  (instead  of  J.  E.) 
Leonhard. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
The  Dispensatory  of  the  United  States  ofAmrrica.  By  Dr.G.  B.Wood  and  Dr. 
Franklin  Bache.  Fifteenth  edition'.  By  H.  C.  Wood,  M.D.,  Professor  of 
Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics,  etc.,  in  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania; Jos.  P.  Remington,  Ph.  G.,  Professor  of  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  etc,  and  Samuel 
P.  Sadtler,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Philadelphia  Colleo^e  of 
Pharmacy  and  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia:  J.  B. 
Lippincott  &  Co.,  1883,  pp.  1928.* 
During  the  past  fifty  years,  in^ which  time  fourteen  editions  of  it  were 
published,  this  work  has  become  familiar  to  most  physicians  and  druggists 
in  the  United  States.  The  changes  adopted  in  the  recent  edition  of  the 
pharmacopoeia  necessitated  a  corresponding  change  in  the  arrangement  of 
this  dispensatory.  In  consequence  of  the  abandonment  of  the  division 
into  Materia  Medica  and  Preparations,  Part  II,  as  contained  in  the  former 
editions,  has  been  merged  into  Part  I,  so  that  as  in  the  present  pharma- 
copceia,  all  officinal  articles  are  considered  in  the  alphabetical  order  of  their 
Pharmacopoeial  names.  The  arrangement  of  the  matter  under  the  indi- 
vidual headings  remains  in  the  main,  as  formerly  ;  but  the  matter  itself 
has  of  necessity  undergone  considerable  modification,  so  as  to  embody  the 
results  of  the  recent  scientific  investigations  and  practical  observations. 
These  changes  are  more  particularly  noticable  in  that  portion  of  the  text 
relating  to  the  chemistry  of  the  drugs  and  preparations.  For  the  preparation 
of  chemical  compounds,  formulas  for  which  have  been  omitted  from  the 
pharmacopoeia,  the  process  as  detailed  by  the  British  Pharmacopcieia  has 
as  a  rule  been  retained  in  the  text,  besides  brief  outlines  of  other  technical 
or  interesting  processes,  while  those  contained  in  the  old  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  are  usually  given  in  foot  notes. 
The  numerous  changes  and  improvements  in  strictly  pharmaceutical 
preparations  have  likewise  received  deserved  attention  and  necessitated 
the  rewriting  or  augmentation  of  most  comnientatory  notices,  in  which  the- 
parts  by  weight  as  now  directed  by  the  Pharmacopoeia  are  translated  into^ 
