THE CHEMIST'S DESK-COMPANION FOR 1865.-THE YEAR-BOOK OF PHARMACY: a Practical Summary of Researches in Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry during the Year 1864. By CHARLES H. WOOD and CHARLES SHARP. This little work, as stated in the Introduction, "is intended to furnish the pharmaceutist with a concise abstract of all important papers bearing on Pharmacy which have appeared during the past year." It is the first attempt at the establishment of a work of the sort in this country, although for many years similar publications have appeared in France, Germany, and America, and we have no doubt its appearance will be hailed with satisfaction by those who, being engaged in the practice of phar macy, feel the want of a ready means of referring to a brief account of all new matter relating to their profession. The authors are known to many of our readers, one being the Librarian to the Pharmaceutical Society, and the other late Demonstrator in the Laboratory and Secretary to the Chemical Discussion Association. They are well qualified for the task they have undertaken, and have well performed their task. The work, which consists of a pamphlet of 155 pages, gives a brief notice of the state, political and social, of pharmacy in this country during the past year; it then gives in a series of short articles the results of the communications which have been made in the different journals on Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Chemisty, and Pharmacy, and these notices are followed by pharmaceutical formule, and therapeutical notes and formula. The whole is concisely yet clearly expressed, with full references to the sources from which the information is derived. It will be found to be a very useful, and at the same time inexpensive, appendage to the desk of the dispensing chemist. OBITUARY. On Wednesday, November 23rd, at 10, Parade, Tunbridge Wells, William Maddock, in his seventy-third year; one of the founders of the Pharmaceutical Society. BOOKS RECEIVED. THE HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Edited by W. H. RANKING. M.D., etc., and C. B. RADCLIFFE, M.D., etc. Vol. LX., July - December, 1864. London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street. 1865. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Registered Apprentice (Bradford).-See Wood and Bache's United States Dispensatory,' p. 1443, and American Journal of Pharmacy,' vol. xxviii. p. 510. A paper will shortly appear on the subject by Professor Bentley in the Pharmaceutical Journal. J. B. (Glasgow).-See "New American Remedies," in the Pharmaceutical Journal, by Professor Bentley. New papers will shortly appear. S. J. F.-Methylic Alcohol. See Vol. V. (2nd series), page 369. J. H. W. (Blackheath). In the prescription referred to, Potassæ carbonas should be used. W. R. S. (Manchester).—If our correspondent means carbazotic acid, this has recently been tried in some cases where the use of quinine is indicated; but we understand that the property possessed by carbazotic acid, of colouring the skin, is some objection to its use. Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the transmission of the Journal before the 25th of the month, to ELIAS BREMRIDGE, Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. Advertisements (not later than the 23rd) to Messrs. CHURCHILL, New Burlington Street. Other communications to the Editors, 17, Bloomsbury Square. The following Plates are to illustrate the paper "On Microscopical Research in Relation to Pharmacy," by Henry Deane, F.L.S., and Henry B. Brady, F.L.S., and must be placed between pages 240 and 241. THE CHEMIST'S DESK-COMPANION FOR 1865.-THE YEAR-BOOK OF PHARMACY: a Practical Summary of Researches in Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Pharmaceu tical Chemistry during the Year 1864. By CHARLES H. WOOD and CHARLES SHARP. This little work, as stated in the Introduction, "is intended to furnish the pharmaceutist with a concise abstract of all important papers bearing on Pharmacy which have appeared during the past year." It is the first attempt at the establishment of a work of the sort in this country, although for many years similar publications have appeared in France, Germany, and America, and we have no doubt its appearance will be hailed with satisfaction by those who, being engaged in the practice of phar macy, feel the want of a ready means of referring to a brief account of all new matter relating to their profession. The authors are known to many of our readers, one being the Librarian to the Pharmaceutical Society, and the other late Demonstrator in the Laboratory and Secretary to the Chemical Discussion Association. They are well qualified for the task they have undertaken, and have well performed their task. The work, which consists of a pamphlet of 155 pages, gives a brief notice of the state, political and social, of pharmacy in this country during the past year; it then gives in a series of short articles the results of the communications which have been made in the different journals on Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Chemisty, and Pharmacy, and these notices are followed by pharmaceutical formulæ, and therapeutical notes Registered Apprentice (Bradford).-See Wood and Bache's United States Dispensatory, p. 1443, and American Journal of Pharmacy,' vol. xxviii. p. 510. A paper will shortly appear on the subject by Professor Bentley in the Pharmaceutical Journal. J. B. (Glasgow).—See New American Remedies," in the Pharmaceutical Journal, by Professor Bentley. New papers will shortly appear. S. J. F.-Methylic Alcohol. See Vol. V. (2nd series), page 369. J. H. W. (Blackheath). In the prescription referred to, Potassæ carbonas should be used. W. R. S. (Manchester).—If our correspondent means carbazotic acid, this has recently been tried in some cases where the use of quinine is indicated; but we understand that the property possessed by carbazotic acid, of colouring the skin, is some objection to its use. Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the transmission of the Journal before the 25th of the month, to ELIAS BREMRIDGE, Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. Advertisements (not later than the 23rd) to Messrs. CHURCHILL, New Burlington Street. Other communications to the Editors, 17, Bloomsbury Square. |