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Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1892. 
cognosy  to  the  University  in  Moscow. — Dr.  Jul.  Trapp,  Professor,  kais.  russ. 
Geheimrath,  Excellenz,  in  St.  Petersburg. — Dr.  A.  Tschirch,  Professor  of 
Pharmacognosy  and  Director  des  Pharmaceut.  Institutes  to  the  University  of 
Bern  (Switzerland). — Dr.  Aug.  E.  Vogl,  Hofrath,  Professor  of  Pharmacology 
and  Pharmacognosy  to  the  University  of  Wien. — Dr.  J.  E.  de  Vrij,  in  Haag 
(Holland). — A.  von  Waldheim,  Director  des  Oesterr.  Apotheker-Vereins  in 
Wien. — Fr.  Weber,  President  des  Schweiz.  Apotheker-Vereins  in  Zurich. — 
Dr.  Alb.  Weller,  Director  der  Vereinigten  Fabriken  chem.-pharmac.  Produkte 
Feuerbach-Stuttgart  and  Frankfurt  a./M.,  Zimmer  &  Co.,  in  Frankfurt  a./M. 
— Dr.  J.  JViesner,  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Phys.  of  plants  to  the  University, 
Mitglied  der  Akademie  der  Wissenschaften  in  Wien. 
Correction. — The  article  on  page  99  of  our  last  number  on  the  "  estimation  of 
iodoform  "  was  selected  from  The  Analyst,  1892,  page  7.  Through  an  oversight, 
the  concluding  paragraphs  were  omitted,  namely,  a  table  of  analytical  results 
proving  the  correctness  of  the  proposed  method,  and  the  following  additional 
information  : 
The  method  does  not  take  more  than  half  an  hour  to  perform,  and  is  therefore 
practical.  Should  the  iodoform  be  obtained  in  ethereal  solution,  as  for 
instance,  in  the  estimation  of  acetone,  the  ether  need  not  be  evaporated,  but 
can  be  mixed  directly  with  the  alcoholic  soda.  No  danger  of  loss  of  iodoform 
need  be  feared,  and  it  is  not  necessary  to  use  an  inverted  condenser. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Handbuch  der  Airzneimittellehre.  Mit  besonderer  Riicksichtnahme  auf  die 
neuesten  Pharmakopoen  fiir  Studirende  und  Aerzte  bearbeitet  von  Dr.  Theodor 
Husemann,  Professor  der  Medicin  an  der  Universitat  Gottingen.  Dritte 
Auflage  des  Handbuches  der  gesammten  Arzneimittellehre.  Berlin.  Verlag 
von  Julius  Springer.    1892.    8vo.    Pp.  687. 
Handbook  of  Materia  Medica,  with  special  reference  to  the  latest  pharma- 
copoeias ;  for  students  and  physicians.    Price,  bound,  10  marks. 
Although  the  work  before  us  is  stated  to  be  the  third  edition  of  the  author's 
extensive  medical  work  on  materia  medica,  it  may  be  viewed  as  a  new  work, 
written  in  a  more  condensed  style  so  as  to  be  adapted  to  the  uses  of  the  medi- 
cal student,  and  at  the  same  time  be  useful  for  consultation  by  practitioners  of 
medicine.  The  scope  of  the  work  embraces,  besides  the  remedies  of  the  German 
pharmacopoeia,  also  those  dismissed  by  this  authority,  but  still  in  use  ;  as  well 
as  those  of  the  recent  Austrian  pharmacopoeia,  and  remedies  of  other  countries 
possessing  sufficient  interest  for  the  physician  of  central  Europe.  Naturally 
we  may  expect  to  find  accounts  also  of  those  modern  remedies,  which  of  late 
years  have  been  introduced  in  large  number,  and  have  been  recommended  as 
valuable,  though,  as  the  author  remarks,  many  of  these  acquisitions  to  thera- 
peutics will,  after  a  brief  renown,  again  become  obsolete. 
The  book  is  divided  into  two  parts,  general  and  special  materia  medica,  the 
former  beginning  with  a  chapter  on  the  derivation  and  nature  of  remedies, 
then  discussing  pharmacodynamics  in  a  general  manner,  and  concluding  with 
a  more  lengthy  chapter  on  the  art  of  prescribing  medicines.  This  latter 
explains  the  manner  of  correctly  formulating  prescriptions,  and  then  gives 
special  descriptions  and  directions  regarding  the  different  forms  of  medication, 
