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Book  Reviews. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    February,  1909. 
useless  and  obsolete.  Every  pharmacist  and  physician  needs  this 
new  text  for  information  about  the  synonyms,  sources,  tests,  solubili- 
ties, incompatibilities,  medicinal  properties,  and  doses  of  all  the  new 
remedies.  Great  pains  have  been  made  to  cover  the  entire  field  of 
this  class  of  preparations  including  proprietaries  of  similar  sounding 
titles.  The  number  of  new  remedies  appearing  in  the  world's 
markets  is  increasing  with  amazing  rapidity,  which,  with  the  influx 
of  foreign  emigration  and  the  growing  commercial  intercourse  with 
other  nationalities,  compels  the  modern  apothecary  to*  be  very  alert 
as  to  the  developments  along  this  line.  Probably  no  one  by  training, 
education,  and  practical  experience  is  capable  of  writing  so  authori- 
tative a  work  on  the  newer  remedies  as  Professor  Coblentz,  and 
this  book  will  be  highly  appreciated  by  the  professions  interested 
as  well  as  by  analysts. 
Pharmacology.  The  Action  and  Uses  of  Drugs.  By  Maurice 
V.  Tyrode.  Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston's  Son  &  Co.,  1012  Walnut 
St.,  1908.    Pages  255.    Price,  $1.50. 
The  medical  student  needs  as  good  training  in  pharmacology  or 
pharmacodynamics  as  in  the  study  of  the  therapeutical  action  of 
drugs.  This  book  was  prepared,  as  stated  by  the  author,  in  order  to 
furnish  the  students  in  the  Medical  School  of  Plarvard  University 
with  "  a  small  and  concise  text-book  which  would  give  the  facts 
essential  to  an  ordinary  medical  student  without  profound  scientific 
discussions  of  opposite  opinions." 
The  author  has  prepared  a  very  creditable  book,  based,  it  is  true, 
largely  on  the  results  of  the  leaders  in  pharmacology  like  Schmiede- 
berg,  Cushny,  Sollman  and  others.  The  treatment  is  in  a  scientific 
manner  and  this  must  be  helpful  to  the  medical  student  as  well  as 
practitioner. 
In  this  work  the  drugs  are  brought  into  groups,  in  connection  with 
which  is  given  a  brief  summary  of  the  general  action,  following 
the  latter  is  a  short  statement  concerning  the  uses  and  applications, 
and  lastly  there  is  a  concise  description  of  the  different  preparations 
used  in  medicine,  including  the  doses  of  each. 
The  Art  of  Dispensing.  Eighth  Edition.  By  Peter  MacEwan, 
F.C.S.,  Pharmaceutical  Chemist,  Editor  of  The  Chemist  and 
Druggist,  London,  England.  542  pages.  Price  $2.00.  From 
McKesson  &  Robbins,  New  York  City. 
