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and the committee have therefore given the choice of the two 
modes of manipulation. An outline of the mode of conduct- 
ing the new method has been judiciously presented. The 
subject for several years past has occupied the attention of 
pharmaceutists, and those who should wish to understand it 
thoroughly from details, we refer to the pages of the Journal of 
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
We cannot close this brief sketch, without expressing the 
opinion that the American medical and pharmaceutical public 
are under deep obligations to the learned and accurate indi- 
viduals, who for a year and a half have devoted themselves 
to the production of a work, which, whatever may be its 
defects, and however open to criticism isolated portions of it 
may be, still as a whole presents a favorable evidence of the 
condition of the science in the United States, and which can- 
not but be regarded as a monument of our intellectual condi- 
tion. J. C 
tflmer. Journ. Med. Science. 
