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men  of  childhood  and  youth  5  commercial  life  5  literary  and  professional  life  \  hints 
for  healthy  travellers  5  starvation,  poverty  and  fasting  5  the  decline  of  life,  etc. 
Part  III  treats  of  "  Dietetics  in  Sickness."  It  does  not  merely  give  directions 
how  the  sick  are  to  be  fed  5  but  it  endeavors  to  explain  the  causes  of  certain  classes 
of  diseases  developed  by  faulty  nutrition.  This  part,  therefore,  does  not  merely 
aim  to  aid  the  physician  in  tracing  the  causes  of  such  disorders,  and  to  presc.iibe  the 
proper  regimen  5  but  it  is  likewise  eminently  calculated  to  teach  the  thinking  how 
to  avoid  disease. 
To  sum  up  our  opinion  on  this  work,  v\e  must  say  that  we  regard  it  as  one  of  the 
most  valuable  additions  to  our  literature  on  sanitary  science,  adapted  not  only  to 
the  special  knowledge  of  the  physician,  but  to  the  comprehension  of  every  intelli- 
gent reader;  it  is  a  work  which  will  be  perused  with  profit,  even  though  we  may 
differ  in  some  respects  from  the  deductions  of  the  author. 
Health  Officer  s  Annual  Report  of  Births^  Marriages  and  Deaths  for  City  of  Philadel- 
phia, 1874.  Philadelphia:  E.  C.  Markley  &  Son,  Printers.    1875.    ^vo.  pp.  162. 
This  volume,  which  is  mainly  of  local  interest,  except  to  the  general  statistician, 
contains  a  large  number  of  tables  drawn  up  by  the  Health  Officer,  John  E.  Addicks, 
and  several  charts  designed  by  George  E.  Chambers,  Registrar. 
Annual  Report  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  Ne~LV  York,  Forty- fifth  Session , 
and  Fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  1875.  New  York:  Holt 
Brothers,  Printers.    8vo,  pp.  81. 
The  reports  of  the  various  committees,  addresses  by  the  Presidents  of  the  College 
and  of  the  Association,  and  those  delivered  at  the  Annual  Commencement,  extracts 
from  the  minutes  of  the  Alumni  Association,  lists  of  members,  etc.,  make  up  this 
volume. 
Proceedings  of  the  Vermont  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Fifth  Amiiial  Meeting, 
held  at  Montpelier,  October  2\  and  22,  1874.  Rutland:  Globe  Paper  Company, 
Printers.    1875.  PP-  4°- 
Besides  the  minutes  and  the  officers'  reports,  several  papers,  on  the  followmg  sub- 
jects, are  contained  in  this  pamphlet:  "The  Opium  habit,"  containing  some  val- 
uable information  on  this  subject,-  "  Oils,"  giving  brief  directions  for  detecting  some 
adulterations  ;  "  Valeriana  officinalis"  and  "  Dispensing  liquors."  The  drift  of  the 
last-mentioned  paper  may  be  well  stated  by  its  concluding  sentence,  which  is  as  fol- 
lows :  "  Those  dealers  who  sell  liquors  on  draught  for  drinking  purposes  should  be 
classed  as  saloon  keepers,  and  taxed  and  crusaded  upon  as  such."  The  paper  011 
valerian  gives  some  information  on  the  culture  of  this  drug  in  New  England.  We 
learn  that  it  is  propagated  from  cuttings  of  the  rhizome,  and  that  the  yield  is  from 
1,000  to  2,000  pounds  of  root  per  acre.  We  take  leave  to  doubt  the  correctness  of 
the  Information  obtained  from  the  growers,  that  "any  land  that  will  raise  good  corn 
will  raise  good  valerian,  and  any  manure  that  is  good  for  corn  is  good  for  valerian." 
That  the  amount  of  extract  yielded  by  any  drug  Is  not  a  criterion  of  its  medicinal 
value,  we  have  repeatedly  shown  to  be  the  case. 
We  trust  that  this  State  Association  will  be  largely  represented  at  the  forthcoming 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
