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EDITORIAL. 
its  use  is  to  be  viewed  as  merely  auxiliary  to  lectures  on  therapeutics, 
referring  the  student  to  the  Dispensatories  for  further  information.  It  is 
not  full  enough  in  any  other  view,  nor  are  the  facts  brought  up  to  the  pre- 
sent time  as  fully  as  should  be  the  case.  In  reference  to  that  larger  and 
more  important  portion  of  the  "  Lectures"  devoted  to  therapeutics,  we  will 
leave  its  examination  to  the  medical  journals.  From  a  glance  over  the  pages 
we  believe  that  in  this  portion  the  chief  merit  of  the  work  will  be  found, 
and  much  useful  information  communicated,  not  only  because  more  space  is 
devoted  to  it,  but  because  the  author,  as  a  teacher,  appears  to  have  directed 
his  hearers  more  to  the  action  and  application  of  medicines  than  to  the  reme- 
dies themselves  ;  a  course  quite  usual  with  Professors  of  Materia  Medi- 
ca,  and  satisfactorily  accounting  for  the  limited  scientific  knowledge  of 
materia  medica  and  pharmacy  possessed  by  a  large  proportion  of  the  medi- 
cal profession. 
The  book  is  well  printed  on  good  good  paper,  and  in  a  style  creditable  to 
the  enterprizing  publishers,  Messrs.  Wood,  of  New  York. 
A  Treatise  on  Therapeutics  and  Pharmacology  or  Materia  Medica.  By 
George  B.  Wood,  M.  D.,  late  President  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, &c,  &c.  In  two  volumes.  Philad. :  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co. 
London  :  Triibner  &  Co.    1856.  pp.  1741. 
We  acknowledge  the  reception  of  these  volumes  from  the  author,  but 
have  not  yet  had  time  to  examine  them  closely.  A  slight  inspection  gives 
promise  that  they  fully  sustain  the  author's  reputation  as  a  close  observer 
and  accurate  writer. 
Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — Our  readers  will  observe  at  page  9 
of  the  advertising  sheet,  the  announcement  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of 
the  Maryland  College,  which  opens  its  session  the  third  of  November. 
