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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICE. 
Tratado  de  Farmacia  y  Farmacognosia  for  Carlos  Murray, 
Profesor  de  Farmacia  y  Farmacognosia  en  la  Facultad  de 
Medicina,  Presidente  y  Ex-Secretario  General  de  la  Sociedad 
de  Farmacia  Argentina,  membro  de  la  Sociedad  Quimica  de 
Paris,  etc.  etc.  Royal  octavo,  pp.  679,  Buenos  Ayres,  1866. 
This  work  makes  its  appearance  in  consequence  of  a  want  felt 
by  Prof.  Murray,  upon  assuming  the  newly  created  chair  of 
Professor  of  Pharmacology  in  the  Faculty  of  Medicine  in  Buenos 
Ayres,  of  a  treatise  in  the  Spanish  language,  which  might  serve 
as  a  text-book  for  the  students  on  the  general  principles  of 
Pharmacy,  and  should  also  treat  particularly  of  the  drugs  and 
preparations  in  common  use  in  the  Argentine  Republic.  In  the 
first  two  divisions  of  the  work,  occupying  about  sixty  pages,  the 
compounding  of  prescriptions,  weights  and  measures,  (in  which 
we  notice  that  the  metrical  system  is  permissive  in  that  country), 
specific  gravity,  the  administration  of:  medicines,  &c,  are  briefly 
considered,  together  with  the  various  operations  of  solution, 
maceration,  evaporation,  distillation,  &c.  The  main  body  of 
the  work  is  taken  up  with  an  account  of  the  medicinal  agents 
usually  employed,  which,  from  the  fact  that  nearly  all  the 
civilized  nations  are  represented  among  the  physicians  and 
pharmaceutists  of  the  country,  are  numerous.  Among  the 
articles  of  the  Materia  Meclica,  we  observe  our  own  Podophyllum, 
Wild  Cherry  Bark  and  Senega  Root,  and  also  some  with  which 
we  are  not  familiar  which  are  indigenous  to  that  country— as  the 
Frythrosa  chilensis,  employed  as  a  tonic,  the  Acacia  Paraguay- 
ensis,  the  fruit  of  which  forms  a  good  substitute  for  galls,  con- 
taining, according  to  Parody,  39  per  cent,  of  tannin  (Revista  • 
Pharm.,  1864)  and  Sambucus  nigra,  the  inner  bark  of  which  is 
used  as  a  hydrogogue  cathartic.  Among  other  plants  of  the 
country,  the  Arnica  montana,  Gruaiacum  officinale  and  Oonium 
maculatum  are  said  to  be  common,  and  the  Digitalis  purpurea, 
Atropa  belladonna,  Punica  granatum,  Plantago  major,  Taraxa- 
cum leontodon  and  Datura  stramonium  are  to  be  met  with. 
The  valuable  productions  of  other  portions  of  the  South 
American  continent  appear  to  hold  as  high  a  place  in  public 
estimation  in  Buenos  Ayres  as  they  do  here,  and  we  notice  the  . 
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