332 
Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1892. 
Resolved  further,  That  it  is  also  the  sense  of  this  society  that  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Pharmaceutical  Association  should  use  its  best  efforts  in  securing  action 
prohibiting  druggists  who  are  not  registered  physicians  from  prescribing  for 
diseases. 
As  might  have  been  expected,  some  of  the  physicians  present  spoke  in  oppo- 
sition to  the  resolutions,  and  from  the  remarks  made  by  a  few  of  them,  it  would 
seem  that  tbey  believed  themselves  at  least  equally,  if  not  better,  versed  in  all 
the  details  of  pharmacy  than  those  who  had  spent  a  lifetime  in  its  practice.  On 
the  other  hand,  a  number  of  influential  physicians  showed  that  medical  educa- 
tion did  not  embrace  the  details  of  pharmacy,  and  that,  as  a  rule,  physicians 
were  not  able  to  carry  out  the  necessary  pharmaceutical  manipulations,  and 
were  not  prepared  to  properly  attend  to  the  other  numerous  duties  of  the  phar- 
macist. The  resolutions  were  adopted  by  a  vote  of  61  in  favor  against  19 
in  opposition.  Since  the  question  before  the  meeting  appeared  not  to  have 
been  properly  understood  by  all,  a  second  vote  was  taken,  resulting  in  66  ayes 
to  23  nays. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Handwdrterbuch  der  Pharmacie.  Praktisches  Handbuch  fur  Apotheker, 
Aerzte,  Medicinalbeamte  und  Drogisten.  Herausgegeben  von  A.  Brestowski, 
Herausgeber  und  Redacteur  der  "  Pharmaceutischen  Presse."  Wien  and 
Leipzig.    Wilhelm  Braumiiller.  1892. 
Dictionary  of  Pharmacy.  A  practical  handbook  for  apothecaries,  physicians, 
medical  officers  and  druggists. 
This  work  is  published  in  parts,  each  of  80  quarto  pages,  at  2.40  marks  (Ger- 
man) each,  and  will  be  completed  in  about  twenty  parts,  forming  two  volumes. 
The  text  is  printed  in  double  columns,  the  subjects  arranged  in  alphabetical 
order  and  indicated  by  broad-faced  type  ;  the  typographical  work  is  clear,  and 
the  paper  good  and  serviceable — qualities  which  are  of  importance  to  a  work 
intended  for  frequent  consultation.  The  two  parts,  or  160  pages,  before  us 
bring  the  text  to  "  aseptol."  On  perusing  these  pages  a  good  insight  is  gained 
of  the  scope  of  this  dictionary,  which  covers  the  field  of  pharmacy  quite  thor- 
oughly. Strictly  medical  terms  have  been  admitted  only  as  far  as  they  are 
likely  to  be  met  with  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy,  and  are  either  simply  trans- 
lated into  German,  like  "  Acholik  =  Gallenmangel,':  i.  e.,  absence  of  bile  ;  or 
a  brief  explanation  is  given,  as  for  "  abscess  "  and  "  acupunctur  ;"  or  besides 
the  simple  explanation  other  particulars  are  given  relating  to  chemical  charac- 
ters or  analysis,  as  for  "Acetonurie, "  where  methods  for  detecting  the  presence 
of  acetone  in  urine  are  also  described.  As  a  matter  of  course,  all  strictly  phar- 
maceutical terms  have  received  their  due  attention,  as  well  as  the  medicinal 
plants,  animals,  minerals  and  chemicals,  and  those  botanical,  zoological,  minera- 
logical  and  chemical  terms  which  are,  or  may  be  used  in  pharmacy.  It  is  in 
this  latter  respect  more  particularly  very  difficult  to  draw  a  sharp  line  between 
such  that  properly  belong  to  pharmacy,  and  such  that  are  not  pharmaceutical  ; 
the  more  so,  since  in  recent  years  the  search  for  new  remedies,  or  perhaps 
more  correctly,  for  novelties,  has  attracted  ephemeral  attention  to  a  large 
number  of  crude  drugs  and  artificial  products,  alongside  of  which  many  of  the 
older  claimants  for  recognition  as  remedies  make  their  appearance  from  time 
