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pigs  insensible,  so  as  to  kill  them  painlessly  and  to  skin  them  more 
easily.  Also,  in  fattening  them,  they  are  subjected  to  periodic 
inhalations  of  chloroform,  which  renders  them  more  restful."  In 
the  first  edition  this  read  "In  America  chloroform  is  used  to  render 
pigs  insensible,"  etc.  It  is  very  gratifying  to  feel  that  the  Italian 
author  and  his  English  translator  had  such  a  fine  idea  of  the,,  shall 
we  say,  "humanitarian"  or  "swineatarian"  instincts  of  Americans, 
but  we  doubt  that  any  visitor  to  any  one  of  the  great  abattoirs  of 
the  Middle  West,  or  to  any  pigsty  of  the  East  or  West,  could  detect 
anything  chloroformic  in  the  odors  that  greeted  his  nostrils. 
As  in  the  first  edition,  there  is  a  wealth  of  statistical  matter,  ► 
some  of  it  up-to-date,  but  much  of  it  admittedly  not  so,  World 
War  conditions  making  it  impossible  to  secure  accurate  statistical 
data.    It  has  some  value,  however,  and  the  book  would  be  the 
poorer  without  it. 
Frequent  reference  is  made  to  matter  found  in  the  author's 
work- on  Inorganic  Chemistry  under  the  designation  "Volume  I." 
This  offered  no  difficulty  while  the  subject  of  Organic  Chemistry 
was  confined  to  one  volume,  but  we  can  see  where  some  confusion 
might  result  if  the  same  style  of  reference  were  to  be  continued 
in  the  second  volume  of  the  two-volume  edition. 
The  book  is  one  which  we  can  unhesitatingly  recommend,  both 
as  a  text-book  and  a  reference  book,  presenting,  as  it  does,  in  a 
clear  and  very  readable  form,  both  the  theoretical  and  practical 
aspects  of  the  chemistry  of  a  large  number  of  important  classes  of 
aliphatic  compounds.  We  await  anxiously  the  appearance  of  the 
second  volume. 
F.  P.  Stroup. 
"Synopsis  of  Pharmacology."  By  Douglas  Cow,  M.  D.;  Exam- 
iner in  Pharmacology,  University  of  Cambridge.  Published  by 
L.  &  A.  Churchill,  London,  1920. 
i  .  According  to  the  statement  of  the  author,  this  book  is  not  in- 
tended to  replace  "recognized  text-books,"  but  to  be  used  rather  as 
a  review  manual  by  students.  ,  _  : 
The  titles,  are  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  thus  avoiding  the 
need  of  an  index.  The  cross  indexing  introduced  in  this  arrange- 
ment is  quite  valuable.  Information  is  very  .  concisely  given,  and, 
considering  the  scope  of  the  work,  is  remarkably  complete.  . 
The  illustrations  and  the  legends  accompanying .  them  are  of 
