102 CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTIC MANIPULATIONS. 
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REVIEW. 
ART. XXV.-CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTIC MANIPULA- 
TIONS ; A Manual of the Mechanical and Chemico-Mechanical 
Operations of the Laboratory, containing a complete description of 
the most approved apparatus, with instructions as to their applica- 
tion and management, both in manufacturing processes and in the 
more exact details of analysis and accurate research. For the use 
of Chemists, Druggists, Teachers and Students. By Campbell 
Morfit, Practical and Analytic Chemist, author of Applied Chem- 
istry, &c. ; assisted by Alexander Muckle, Chemical Assistant in 
Professor Booth's Laboratory. With 423 engravings. Philadelphia, 
Lindsey & Blakiston, 1849. 
The improvements which have taken place in the prac- 
tice of Pharmacy in the United States, and more especially 
in the city of Philadelphia since the establishment of the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, is a subject of just pride 
for those who founded that association and have witnessed 
its steady prosperity. The school of Pharmacy which it 
formed, was fortunate in securing the services of two ac- 
complished teachers, Drs. Wood and Bache, and we cannot 
point to any scientific work written by native Americans, 
which placed us so entirely, by a simple effort, on the level 
of the best European information, and made accessible to 
the American public all the best lights of modern science 
in its particular department, as the Dispensatory of the 
United States. It was not a crude collection of raw ma- 
terials, but a well digested compend of all that was to be 
known on the subject, so completely assimilated to the end 
in view, as to be entitled to the praise of great ability, and 
even originality. The publication of that great work forms 
an era in the history of the profession of Pharmacy in 
America; and the College under whose auspices it was pre- 
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