220 
Reviews. 
A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1892. 
work,  of  the  value  of  which,  for  educational  purposes  and  for  reference,  we  have 
heretofore  advised  our  readers  (see  this  Journal,  1885,  462  ;  1886,  414).  It 
remains  for  us  now  to  merely  state  that  the  work  has  been  revised,  additions  or 
changes  having  been  made  wherever  experience  had  shown  such  to  be  desirable 
or  useful,  so  that  in  its  present  shape  it  will  be  found  to  be  fully  as  acceptable 
as  heretofore. 
Jahresbericlit.  (Annual  Report.)  E.  Merck,  Darmstadt.  January,  1892. 
Pp.  87. 
One  of  the  papers  relates  to  the  alkaloid  atropamine,  which  the  author  pre- 
pared from  mother-liquors  of  atropine  ;  it  was  demonstrated  to  be  identical 
with  apoatropine.  The  second  paper  gives  the  results  of  some  observations  on 
commercial  oils  of  eucalyptus,  and  on  the  preparation  of  terpin  hydrate  from 
the  same.  The  remainder  of  the  report  gives  resumes  of  the  action,  character, 
etc.,  of  a  large  number  of  recently  introduced  remedies.  In  the  appended 
literary  list,  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  is  quoted  as  being  published 
in  New  York  instead  of  Philadelphia. 
Sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Massachusetts  Board  of  Registration  in  Phar- 
macy.   For  1 89 1. 
During  the  year,  315  candidates  applied  for  examination  and  registration,  of 
which  number  115  were  successful. 
Ueber  Dichlormethylparaconsdure .  Von  Harry  C.  Myers,  Cleveland,  O. 
8vo.    Pp.  16. 
On  dichlormethylparaconic  acid  is  the  title  of  this  inaugural  dissertation, 
presented  by  the  author  to  the  faculty  of  mathematics  and  natural  history  of 
the  University  of  Strassburg.  It  gives  the  process  for  preparing  this  acid  and  a 
number  of  its  salts  ;  also  analyses  of  the  same. 
The  reception  of  the  following  pamphlets  on  medical  subjects  is  acknowl- 
edged : 
Notes  on  general  versus  local  treatment  of  catarrhal  inflammations  of  the 
upper  air-tract.    By  Beverly  Robinson,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
Reprint  from  the  Climatologist,  December,  1891. 
Tuberculin  :  the  value  and  limitation  of  its  use  in  consumption.  By  Chas. 
Denison,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  etc.,  Denver,  Col. 
Reprint,  with  revisions  up  to  February  r,  1892,  from  the  Transactions  of  the 
Colorado  State  Medical  Society  for  1891. 
An  account  of  the  Influenza  as  it  appeared  in  Philadelphia  in  the  winters  of 
i889-'90  and  of  1891-92.    By  J.  Howe  Adams,  M.  D.,  Philadelphia. 
Reprint  from  University  Medical  Magazine,  February,  1892. 
Tobacco,  Insanity  and  Nervousness.    By  Dr.  L.  Bremer.    Published  by  the 
Meyer  Bros.  Druggist.    St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1892. 
Read  before  the  St.  Douis  Medical  Society. 
Proceedings  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  College  of  Phar- 
macy for  the  years  1890  and  1891.    San  Francisco,  1892.    8vo.    Pp.  136. 
The  book  contains  the  minutes  of,  and  the  papers  read  at,  the  semi-annual 
meetings  of  the  Society  held  in  San  Jose,  1890,  and  in  Stockton,  1891,  and  of 
