Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1883. 
Reviews,  etc. 
639 
Die  Pflanzenstoffe  in  chemisGher ,  physiologischer,  pharmakologische7\  und 
toxikologischerHinsicht.  Fiir  Aerzte,  Apotheker,  Chemiker  und  Pliar- 
makologen,  beaibeitet  von  Dr.  Aug.  Hu.semann,  Dr.  A.  Hilger  und 
Dr.  Th.  Huseinann.  Zweite  voUig  umgearbeitete  Auflage.  Berlin: 
Julius  Springer,  188§.    Dritte  Lieferung.    8vo,  pp.  665-984. 
The  Vegetable  Compounds,  in  their  Chemical,  Physiological,  Pharmaco- 
logical and  Toxicological  Relations.  For  Physicians,  Apothecaries, 
Chemists  and  Pharmacologists.  Second  edition,  rewritten.  Part  Third. 
Price,  6  marks. 
Part  Third  of  this  highly  important  work,  now  before  us,  deals  with  the 
Papaveraceee,  Cruciferaa,  Ciusiacea?,  Buettneriacese,  Linacese,  Terebin- 
thacese,  Sapindacese,  Rhamnacepe,  Euphorbiacese,  UmbelliferEe,  Hamame- 
lidacese  and  allied  natural  orders,  including  a  portion  of  the  myrtles.  The 
most  important  medicinal  plant  of  these  orders  is  doubtless  the  popjoy,  and 
the  various  constituents  of  opium  require  about  one-third  of  the  pages,  a 
prominence  allotted  them,  which  is  merely  commensurate  with  the  impor- 
tance of  the  drug  yielding  them.  That  nearly  one-half  of  this  space  is 
required  tor  morphine,  shows  that  the  authors,  very  judiciously,  treat  of 
the  really  valuable  proximate  principles  in  deserved  detail.  Between  these 
^nd  such  principles,  of  which  scarcely  more  than  the  name  is  known,  or 
the  existence  of  which  is  doubtful,  there  are  many  gradations  ;  but  all 
receive  a  more  or  less  extended  notice.  The  literature  has  been  well  col- 
lected and  critically  sifted  as  far  as  possible  ;  in  short,  this  part  of  the  work 
is  at  least  equal  in  completeness  to  the  preceding  parts. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution^ 
showing  the  Operations,  Expenditures  and  Condition  of  the  Institution 
for  the  year  1881.  Washington  :  Government  Printing  Office,  1883.  8vo, 
pp.  837. 
Besides  what  is  indicated  on  the  titlepage,  the  volume  contains  brief 
reports  on  the  progress  made  during  the  year  in  the  different  departments 
of  natural  science ;  also  a  number  of  papers  relating  to  anthropology. 
Catalogue  of  the  Phcenogamous  and  Vascular  Cryptogamous  Plants  of 
Worcester  County^  Mass.  *By  Joseph  Jackson.  Worcester,  Mass.  :  Wor- 
cester Natural  History  Society,  1883.    8vo,  pp.  48. 
A  valuable  addition  to  the  literature  relating  to  the  local  distribution  of 
plants  in  the  United  States. 
Dio  Lewises  Monthly.    New  York  :  Frank  Seaman.    8vo.    Price,  |2.50  a 
year. 
The  author  of  a  number  of  popular  works  on  health  subjects  is  the  editor 
of  the  magazine  which  bears  his  name,  and  which  is  devoted  to  general 
hygiene.  The  three  numbers  which  have  thus  far  been  published  contain 
brief  items,  short  dissertations  and  stories,  presenting  the  ideas  in  plain 
language  and  in  an  interesting  style.  Doubtless  there  is  a  wide  field  for 
such  a  periodical. 
Transactions  of  the  Michigan  State  Medical  Society  for  the  year  1883.  Lan- 
sing :  W.  S.  George  &  Co. 
The  pamphlet  contains  the  minutes,  reports  and  papers  read  at  the  Eigh- 
teenth Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Kalamazoo  in  May  last. 
