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able  to  look  up  these  terms  in  the  respective  text-books  on  these 
subjects. 
In  Professor  Amy's  book  we  find  in  Part  I  the  consideration  of 
pharmaceutic  operations,  including  pharmacopoeias,  metrology, 
specific  gravity,  heat,  applications  of  heat,  comminution,  solution, 
lotion,  decantation,  collation,  filtration,  clarification,  decolorization, 
separation  of  immiscible  liquids,  precipitation,  crystallization, 
granulation,  exsiccation,  dialysis,  and  extraction.  Part  II  is  devoted 
to  the  consideration  of  galenic  pharmaceutic  preparations.  Part  III 
treats  of  inorganic  chemistry.  In  Part  IV  the  subject  of  organic 
chemistry  is  considered.  Part  V  is  devoted  to  pharmaceutic  testing. 
In  Part  VI  the  nature  of  the  prescription  and  the  compounding  of 
prescriptions  are  fully  considered.  In  Part  VII  are  laboratory  exer- 
cises in  galenic  and  chemical  preparations. 
The  book  contains  a  number  of  good  features,  as  the  discussion 
of  the  arithmetic  of  pharmacy  and  the  exercises  in  chemical  arith- 
metic. Some  of  the  chemical  explanations  are  also  quite  well  stated. 
With  a  change  in  the  point  of  view  of  the  author  as  to  the  nature 
and  extent  of  the  subject  of  pharmacy,  or  his  approach  to  it  more 
as  a  specialist,  the  reviewer  believes  that  Professor  Arny  has  an 
excellent  opportunity  of  freeing  the  second  edition  from  certain 
misstatements  which  serve  to  mar  his  otherwise  praiseworthy 
undertaking.  He,  as  well  as  some  other  teachers  of  pharmacy, 
apparently  labors  under  the  impression  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  is 
a  treatise  on  pharmacy  and  that  vice  versa  a  text-book  on  pharmacy 
is  a  treatise  on  the  Pharmacopoeia.  A  little  reflection  will  show  that 
it  is  extremely  hazardous  for  any  one  man  to  attempt  to  write 
authoritatively  on  the  three  or  four  or  more  branches  or  departments 
which  are  included  in  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  with  the  rapid  ad- 
vances in  the  sciences,  and  the  tendency  to  specialization  and  di- 
vision in  work,  this  point  of  view  is  coming  to  be  recognized  more 
and  more. 
New  and  Non-Official  Remedies.  The  new  edition  of  this 
book,  containing  an  enumeration  of  the  medicinal  substances  that 
have  been  examined  by  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry, 
prior  to  January  i,  1909,  and  which  appear  to  comply  with  the  rules 
of  the  Council,  has  been  published  and  is  available,  for  a  nominal 
sum,  from  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  103 
Dearborn  Avenue,  Chicago, 
