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Book  Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1921. 
Immigrant  Health  and  the  Community. — The  Carnegie 
Corporation  of  New  York  has  recently  made  public  the  following 
extract  from  a  forthcoming  book  on  "Immigrant  Health  and  the 
Community,"  which  is  to  present  the  fifth  of  the  Americanization 
studies  made  under  the  auspices  of  the  Corporation : 
"The  local  drug  store,  the  place  where  most  patent  medicines  are 
purchased,  is  an  important  center  of  medical  advice.  There  are  sev- 
eral reasons  for  this. 
"Usually  the  local  druggist  or  someone  in  his  employ  speaks  the 
immigrant's  language,  and  if  there  is  a  large  colony  of  any  one 
mother-tongue  group  there  are  certain  to  be  several  drug  stores  where 
the  language  is  spoken.  The  drug  store  is  localized  and  therefore 
readily  becomes  known  to  the  immigrant. 
"We  must  appreciate  also  that  the  pharmacist  is  properly  re- 
garded by  many  immigrants  as  a  man  of  learning.,  The  drug  store 
is  anxious  to  co-operate  with  the  immigrant  and  the  immigrant's  local 
organizations. 
"Drug  stores  are  important  from  the  medical  standpoint,  be- 
cause it  is  to  them  rather  than  to  the  doctor  that  the  immigrant  first 
turns.  New  arrivals  and  people  who  have  not  had  occasion  to  use 
a  doctor  since  their  arrival  frequently  turn  to  the  druggist  for  advice 
about  doctors.  Local  doctors  are,  therefore,  the  friends  of  the  drug- 
gist, and  his  store  is  a  meeting  place  both  for  social  and  professional 
acquaintances  who  chat,  and  for  business  competitors  who  keep  an 
eye  on  one  another." 
BOOK  REVIEWS 
"Laboratory  Manual  for  the  Detection  of  Poisons  and  Power- 
ful Drugs."  By  Dr.  Wilhelm  Autenrieth,  Professor  in  the 
University  of  Freiburg,  i.  B.  Authorized  translation  by  William 
H.  Warren,  Ph.  D.  Fifth  American  edition.  P.  Blakiston's 
Son  &  Company,  Philadelphia.  342  pages ;  $3.50  net. 
In  the  preface,  the  translator  states  that  this  "present  Englisn 
edition  is  a  translation  of  the  fourth  completely  revised  German  edi- 
tion, as  a  fifth  German  edition,  so  far  as  the  writer  is  aware,  has  not 
yet  appeared." 
It  is  also  stated  that  "owing  to  the  prominence  attained  of  late 
by"  wood  (methyl)  alcohol,  due  to  ignorant  or  criminally  careless 
