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Physiology (Continued), Chemistry.

Foster's Physiology.-New (5th) American Ed. Just Ready. Text-Book of Physiology. By MICHAEL FOSTER, M. D., F. R. S., Prelec tor in Physiology and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England. New (fifth) and enlarged American from the fifth and revised English edition, with notes and additions, In one handsome octavo vol. of 1083 pages, with 316 illus. Cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50. This is the standard work on physiology, being most thorough and complete in all branches and details; moreover it contains considerable material which has never before been presented to the medical public. Evidence of its success is shown in the fact that it is now in its fifth English and fifth American edition. In its high character, in the care which is shown in the statements and their verification, and in it thorough dealing with physiological and histological problems, it is far ahead of any book of the class yet issued.-The Medical Age, December 26, 1893

One cannot read a single chapter without being impressed with the care that the author has bestowed upon it. Apparently nothing that is known up to the present year concerning vital processes

has escaped his painstaking attention The details receive the fullest consideration. The additions which have been made to this last edition are caused by an effort to explain more fully and at greater length what seemed to be the most fundamental and important topics. The publishers have subjected it to the searching revision of one of the foremost American professors of physiology. We have nothing but words of the highest praise for the classical and thorough manner in which the work is written, as well as for the liberality of the publishers for selling such a large work, and one which must necessarily be very costly to produce, for an extremely moderate price.-The Canada Medical Record, March, 1864.

Dalton's Physiology.-Seventh Edition.

have never been in any doubt as to its sterling worth.-N. Y. Medical Journal, Oct. 1882.

A Treatise on Human Physiology. Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By JOHN C. DALTON, M. D., Professor of Physiology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc. Seventh edition, thoroughly revised and rewritten. In one very handsome octavo volume of 722 pages, with 252 beautiful engravings on wood. Cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00. From the first appearance of the book it has been a favorite, owing as well to the author's renown as an oral teacher as to the charm of simplicity with which, as a writer, he always succeeds in investing even intricate subjects. It must be gratifying to him to observe the frequency with which his work, written for students and practitioners, is quoted by other writers on physiology. This fact attests its value, and, in great measure, its originality. It now needs no such seal of approbation, however, for the thousands who have studied it in its various editions

Chapman's Human Physiology.

Professor Dalton's well-known and deservedlyappreciated work has long passed the stage at which it could be reviewed in the ordinary sense. The work is eminently one for the medical practitioner, since it treats most fully of those branches of physiology which have a direct bearing on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The work is one which we can highly recommend to all our readers.-Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Feb. '83.

A Treatise on Human Physiology. By HENRY C. CHAPMAN, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. In one octavo volume of 925 pages, with 605 engravings. Cloth, $5.50; leather, $6.50. It represents very fully the existing state of physiology. The present work has a special value to the student and practitioner as devoted more to the practical application of well-known truths which the advance of science has given to the profession in this department, which may be considered the foundation of rational medicine.-Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, Dec. 1887.

Matters which have a practical bearing on the practice of medicine are lucidly expressed; tech

nical matters are given in minute detail; elaborate directions are stated for the guidance of students in the laboratory. In every respect the work fulfils its promise, whether as a complete treatise for the student or for the physician; for the former it is so complete that he need look no farther, and the latter will find entertainment and instruction in an admirable book of reference.North Carolina Medical Journal, Nov. 1887.

Schofield's Elementary Physiology.

Elementary Physiology for Students. By ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD,

M. D., Late House Physician London Hospital. In one 12mo. volume of 380 pages, with 227 engravings and 2 colored plates containing 30 figures. Cloth, $2.00.

Frankland & Japp's Inorganic Chemistry.

Inorganic Chemistry. By E. FRANKLAND, D. C. L., F. R. S., Profe-sor of Chemistry in the Normal School of Science, London., and F. R. JAPP, F. I. C., Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Normal School of Science, London. In one handsome octavo volume of 677 pages with 51 woodcuts and 2 plates. Cloth, $3.75; leather, $4.75.

Clowes' Qualitative Analysis.-Third Edition.

An Elementary Treatise on Practical Chemistry and Qualitative Inorganic Analysis. Specially adapted for use in the Laboratories of Schools and Colleges and by Beginners. By FRANK CLOWES, D. Sc., London, Senior Science-Master at the High School, Newcastle-under Lyme, etc. Third American from the fourth and revised English edition. In one 12mo. vol. of 387 pages, with 55 illus. Cloth, $2 50. CLASSEN'S ELEMENTARY QUANTITATIVE | fessor of Chemistry in the Towne Scientific School, ANALYSIS. Translated, with notes and addi- University of Penna. In one 12mo. volume of 324 tions, by EDGAR F. SMITH, Ph. D, Assistant Pro- pages, with 36 illus. Cloth, $2.00.

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Chemistry-(Continued).

Simon's Chemistry.-New (4th) Edition.

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Manual of Chemistry. A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory work for Beginners in Chemistry. A Text-book, specially adapted for Students of Pharmacy and Medicine. By W. SIMON, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, and Professor of Chemistry in the Maryland College of Pharmacy. New (4th) edition. In one 8vo. vol. of 490 pp., with 44 woodcuts and 7 colored plates illustrating 56 of the most important chemical tests. Cloth, $3.25. A work which rapidly passes to its fourth edition needs no further proof of having achieved a sucIn the present case the claims to favor are obvious. Emanating from an experienced teacher of medical and pharmaceutical students the volume is closely adapted to their needs. This is shown not only by the careful selection and clear presentation of its subject matter, but by the colored plates of reactions, which form a unique feature. Every teacher will appreciate the saving of his own time, and the advantages accruing to the student from a permanent and accurate stan.

cess.

dard of comparison for tests depending on colors, and frequently upon their changes. To the prac titioner, who is likely to be confronted at any time with important pathological or toxicological questions to be answered by the test tube, the volume will be of the utmost value. Such it has proved in the past, and the author has accordingly been enabled, through frequent and thorough revisions to keep his work constantly in touch with the progress of its science and the best methods of its presentation.- Kansas City Medical Index, May,

1893.

Fownes' Chemistry.-Twelfth Edition.

A Manual of Elementary Chemistry; Theoretical and Practical. By GEORGE FOWNES, Ph. D. Embodying WATTS' Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. New Amer.can, from the twelfth English edition. In one large royal 12mo. volume of 1061 pages, with 168 engravings and a colored plate. Cloth, $2.75; leather, $3.25.

Fownes' Chemistry has been a standard textbook upon chemistry for many years. Its merits are very fully known by chemists and physicians everywhere in this country and in England. As the science has advanced by the making of new discoveries, the work has been revised so as to keep it abreast of the times. It has steadily maintained its position as a text-book with medi

cal students. In this work are treated fully: Heat, Light and Electricity, including Magnetism. The influence exerted by these forces in chemical action upon health and disease, etc., is of the most important kind, and should be familiar to every medical practitioner. We can commend the work as one of the very best text-books upon chemistry extant.--Cincinnati Med. News, Oct. '85.

Attfield's Chemistry.-Twelfth Edition.

Chemistry, General, Medical and Pharmaceutical; Including the Chemistry of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. A Manual of the General Principles of the Science, and their Application to Medicine and Pharmacy. By JOHN ATTFIELD, M. A., Ph. D., F. I. C., F. R. S., etc., Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, etc. A new American, from the twelfth English edition, specially revised by the Author for America. In one handsome royal 12mo. volume of 782 pages, with 88 illustrations. Cloth, $2.75; leather, $3.25.

Attfield's Chemistry is the most popular book among students of medicine and pharmacy. This popularity rests upon real merits. Attfield's work combines in the happiest manner a clear exposition of the theory of chemistry with the practical application of this knowledge to the everyday dealings of the physician and pharmacist. His book is precisely what the title claims for it. The admirable arrangement of the text enables a reader to get a good idea of chemistry without the aid of experiments, and again it is a good laboratory guide, and finally it contains such a

mass of well-arranged information that it will always serve as a handy book of reference. He does not allow any unutilizable knowledge to slip into his book; his long years of experience have produced a work which is both scientific and practical, and which shuts out everything in the nature of a superfluity, and therein lies the secret of its success. This last edition shows the marks of the latest progress made in chemistry and chemical teaching.-New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Nov. 1889.

Bloxam's Chemistry.-Fifth Edition.

Cloth, $2.00; leather, $3.00.

Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic. By CHARLES L. BLOXAM, Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London. New American from the fifth London edition, thoroughly revised and much improved. In one very handsome octavo volume of 727 pages, with 292 illustrations. Comment from us on this standard work is almost superfluons. It differs widely in scope and aim from that of Attfield, and in its way is equally beyond criticism. It adopts the most direct methods in stating the principles, hypotheses and facts of the science. Its language is so terse and lucid, and its arrangement of matter so logical in se quence that the student never has occasion to

complain that chemistry is a hard study. Much attention is paid to experimental illustrations of chemical principles and phenomena, and the mode of conducting these experiments. The book maintains the position it has always held as one of the best manuals of general chemistry in the English language.-Detroit Lancet, Feb. 1884.

Luff's Manual of Chemistry. Just Ready.

A Manual of Chemistry. For the use of students of medicine. By ARTHUR P. LUFF, M. D., B. Sc., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicological Chemistry St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. In one 12mo. vol. of 522 pages, with 36 engravings. Cloth, $2.00. See Students' Series of Manuals, page 30.

Greene's Medical Chemistry.

A Manual of Medical Chemistry. For the use of Students. By WILLIAM H. GREENE, M. D., Demonstrator of Chemistry in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In one 12mo. volume of 310 pages, with 74 illus. Cloth, $1.75. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, 706, 708 & 710 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

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Chemistry (Continued), Pharmacy.

Vaughan & Novy on Ptomaines and Leucomaines.—2d Edition.

Ptomaines, Leucomaines and Bacterial Proteids; or the Chemical Factors in the Causation of Disease. By VICTOR C. VAUGHAN, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry, and Associate Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the University of Michigan, and FREDERICK G. Novy, M. D., Instructor in Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry in the University of Michigan. New (second) edition. In one handsome 12mo. vol. of 389 pages. Cloth, $2.25. This book is one that is of the greatest import and sanitarian. It contains information which ance, and the modern physician who accepts is not easily obtained elsewhere, and which is bacterial pathology cannot have a complete of a kind that no medical thinker should be knowledge of this subject unless he has carefully without.-The American Journal of the Medical perused it. To the toxicologist the subject is Sciences, April, 1892. alike of great import, as well as to the hygienist

Remsen's Theoretical Chemistry.-New (4th) Edition.

Principles of Theoretical Chemistry, with special reference to the Constitution of Chemical Compounds. By IRA REMSEN, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Fourth and thoroughly revised edition. In one handsome royal 12mo. volume of 325 pages. Cloth, $2.00.

The fourth edition of Professor Remsen's well-lation into German and Italian speaks for its exknown book comes again, enlarged and revised. alted position and the esteem in which it is held Each edition has enhanced its value. We may say by the most prominent chemists. We claim for without hesitation that it is a standard work on this little work a leading place in the chemical the theory of chemistry, not excelled and scarcely literature of this country-The American Journal equalled by any other in any language. Its trans- of the Medical Sciences, July, 1893.

Charles' Physiological and Pathological Chemistry.

The Elements of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry. A Handbook for Medical Students and Practitioners. Containing a general account of Nutrition, Foods and Digestion, and the Chemistry of the Tissues, Organs, Secretions and Excretions of the Body in Health and in Disease. Together with the methods for preparing or separating their chief constituents, as also for their examination in detail, and an outline syllabus of a practical course of instruction for students. By T. CRANSTOUN CHARLES, M. D., F. R. S., M. S., formerly Assistant Professor and Demonstrator of Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Queen's College, Belfast. In one handsome octavo volume of 463 pages, with 38 woodcuts and 1 colored plate. Cloth, $3.50.

Dr. Charles is fully impressed with the importance and practical reach of his subject, and he has treated it in a competent and instructive manner. We cannot recommend a better book than the present. In fact, it fills a gap in medical text books, and that is a thing which can rarely be said

nowadays. Dr. Charles has devoted much space to the elucidation of urinary mysteries. He does this with much detail, and yet in a practical and intelligible manner. In fact, the author has filled his book with many practical hints.-Medical Res ord, December 20, 1884.

Hoffmann and Powers' Medicinal Analysis.

A Manual of Chemical Analysis, as applied to the Examination of Medicinal Chemicals and their Preparations. Being a Guide for the Determination of their Identity and Quality, and for the Detection of Impurities and Adulterations. For the use of Pharmacists, Physicians, Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists, and Pharmaceutical and Medical Students. By FREDERICK HOFFMANN, A. M., Ph. D., Public Analyst to the State of New York, and FREDERICK B. POWER, Ph. D., Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Third edition, entirely rewritten and much enlarged. In one octavo volume of 621 pages, with 179 illustrations. Cloth, $4.25. Parrish's Pharmacy.-Fifth Edition.

A Treatise on Pharmacy: Designed as a Text-book for the Student, and as a Guide for the Physician and Pharmaceutist. With many Formula and Prescriptions. By EDWARD PARRISH, late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised, by THOMAS S. WIEGAND, Ph. G. In one handsome octavo volume of 1093 pages, with 256 illustrations. Cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00.

Caspari's Pharmacy.-Preparing.

A Text-Book on Pharmacy, for Students and Pharmacists. By CHARLES CASPARI, JR, Ph. G., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy in the Maryland College of Pharmacy, Joint Editor of The National Dispensatory of 1894. one very handsome octavo volume, richly illustrated.

Ralfe's Clinical Chemistry.

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Clinical Chemistry. By CHARLES H. RALFE, M. D., F. R. C. P., Assistant Physician at the London Hospital. In one pocket-size 12mo. volume of 314 pages, with 16 illus. Limp cloth, red edges, $1.50. See Students' Series of Manuals, page 30.

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Pharmacy, Materia Medica, Therapeutics.

JUST READY-NEW AND THOROUGHLY REVISED EDITION.

The National Dispensatory.

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Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in the Pharmacopoeias of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, with numerous references to the French Codex. By ALFRED STILLE, M. D., LL. D., Professor Emeritus of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, JOHN M. MAISCH, Phar. D., late Professor of Materia Medica and Botany in Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Secretary to the American Pharmaceutical Association, CHARLES CASPARI, JR., Ph. G., Professor of Pharmacy in the Maryland College of Pharmacy, Baltimore, and HENRY C. C. MAISCH, Ph. G., Ph. D. New (fifth) edition, thoroughly revised in accordance with the new U.S. Pharmacopoeia (Seventh Decennial Revision, 1894). In one magnificent imperial octavo volume of 1910 pages, with 320 engravings. Cloth, $7.25, leather, $8.00. With Ready Reference Thumb-letter Index, cloth, $7.75; leather, $8.50.

N the first appearance of The National Dispensatory fifteen years ago it was at once recognized by the pharmaceutical and medical professions as satisfying the need for a work affording all necessary information upon its subject, with authoritative accuracy, and with a completeness and convenience attainable only by the exclusion of obsolete matter. Its success in filling this want is fully attested by the rapid demand for five editions, and the opportunity thus afforded has been well used in successive revisions, each placing it abreast of the day and maintaining the characteristics which had won for it a leading position.

Of all its issues the present embodies the results of the most exhaustive revision. The sweeping changes in the new United States Pharmacopoeia are thoroughly incorporated, with official authorization of the Committee of Revision, and full use has been made of all valuable material in the latest issues of foreign Pharmacopoeias. The volume is accordingly rich in pharmaceutical and chemical information, with data, formulas, tables, etc., gathered from all official sources, but this constitutes only a single department of its usefulness. As an encyclopædia of the latest and best therapeutical knowledge it deals not only with all official drugs, but also with all the new synthetic remedies of value and with the unofficial preparations now so largely in use. Pharmacists will appreciate its systematic descriptions of the materia medica, its clear explanations of chemical and pharmaceutical processes and tests, and its illustrations of important drugs and of the most improved apparatus. Physicians will readily perceive the indispensable assistance offered by its authoritative statements as to the efficacy of drugs in the light of the most recent medical advances. Arranged alphabetically in the text, this information is placed most suggestively at command by the recommendations grouped under the various Diseases in the Therapeutical Index. Together with the General Index this covers more than one hundred treble-columne pages containing 25,000 references. The immensity of detail comprised in this single volume of 1900 pages is thus most forcibly indicated. Though the present edition contains far more matter than its predecessor it is maintained at the same price in view of the ever-increasing demand. Weights and Measures are given in both Ordinary and Metric Systems.

In brief the new edition of The National Dispensatory is presented to the medical and pharmaceutical professions as the equivalent of a whole library of pharmaceutical and therapeutic information; it is the standard of accuracy, the embodiment of completeness without inconvenient bulk, and a marvel of cheapness owing to the widespread demand for it as the authority.

The careful examination of this large volume will strike the reader with surprise at the great number of new articles added, and the amount of useful and accurate information regarding their properties, methods of preparation and therapeutical effects The large number of new articles containing all the latest synthetic remedies and unofficial remedies, compass the entire range of available information in the line of the work. A number of very complete tables together with all the official re-agents and solutions for qualitative and quantitative tests, appear in the appendix. Altogether this work maintains its previous high reputation for accuracy, practical usefulness and encyclopedic scope, and is indispensable alike to the pharmacist and physician. Every druggist knows of it and uses it, and almost every physician properly consults it when desirous of settling all doubtful questions regarding the properties, preparation and uses of drugs.-Medical Record, April 7, 1894.

The descriptions of materia medica are clear, thorough and systematic, as are also the explana tions of chemical and pharmaceutical processes

and tests. The therapeutical portion has been revised with equal care and the statements of the action and uses have been arranged not only alphabetically under the various drugs, but for practical medical usefulness have also been placed at the instant command of those seeking information in the treatment of special diseases by being arranged under the various diseases in a therapeutical index. The readiness with which any of the vast amount of information contained in this work is made available is indicated by the twenty-five thousand references in the two indexes at the end of the volume.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, April, 1894.

It is the official guide for the medical and phar maceutical professions.-Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, March, 1894.

The book is recommended most highly as a book of reference for the physician and is invaluable to the druggist in his every-day work.-The Therapeutic Gazette, March, 1894.

This edition of the Dispensatory should be recognized as a national standard.-The North American Practitioner, March, 1894.

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Therapeutics, Materia Medica—(Continued).

A System of Practical Therapeutics

BY AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AUTHORS.

Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D.

Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia,

In a series of contributions by seventy-eight eminent authorities. In three large octavo volumes of 3544 pages, with 434 illustrations. Price, per volume: Cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00; half Russia, $7.00. For sale by subscription only. Address the Publishers. Full prospectus free to any address on application. The various divisions have been elaborated by men selected in view of their special fitness. In every case there is to be found a clear and concise description of the disease under consideration, corresponding with the most recent and wellestablished views of the subject, embracing apposite pictorial illustrations where these are necessary. In treating of the employment of remedies and therapeutical measures, the writers have been singularly happy in giving in a definite way the exact methods employed and the results of tained, both by themselves and others, so that one might venture with confidence to use remedies with which he was previously entirely unfamiliar. The practitioner could hardly desire a book on practical therapeutics which he could consult with more interest and profit.-The North American Practitioner, September, 1892.

The scope of this work is beyond that of any previous one on the subject. The goal, after all,

is the treatment of disease, and a work which con. tributes to its successful management is to be looked upon as of vast use to humanity. It cannot be denied that therapeutic resources, whether the treatment be confined to the mere administra. tion of drugs, or allowed its more extended application to the management of disease, have so greatly multiplied within the last few years as to render previous treatises of little value Herein will be found the great value of nare's encyclopedic work, which groups together within a single series of volumes the most modern methods known in the management of disease, and espe cially deal with important subjects comprehensively, which could not be done in a more limited treatise. We cannot commend Hare's System of Practical Therapeutics too highly; it stands out first and foremost as a work to be consulted by authors, teachers, and physicians, throughout the world.—Buffalo Med, and Surg. Jour., Aug. 1892.

Hare's Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics.-New (3d) Ed.

A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics; With Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Sec. of Convention for Revision of U. S. Pharmacopoeia of 1890. With special chapters by DRS. G. E. DE SCHWEINITZ, EDWARD MARTIN, J. HOWARD REEVES and BARTON C. HIRST. New (3d) and revised edition. In one octavo volume of 689 pages. Cloth, $3.75; leather, $4.75.

The student of other works, has often, indeed, very often, longed for less of the abstract materia medica and more of the practical application of drugs to disease. In this work that want is filled. The drugs are arranged alphabetically, which enables one to find any name quickly, and, with the excellent index at the end of the volume, naught is left to be desired in the way of quick reference. Each drug, including all the newer remedies which have been proved to possess true merit, is considered in a rational and scientific manner. This work also presents us with nearly 250 pages of practical therapeutics, as applied to the individual diseases. The subjects are arranged alphabetically. It is in the chapter on Diseases that the student finds the rationale of therapeutics. This section is properly the complement of the former, in which each drug was

presented with notes as to its usefulness in numerous diseases, while in the latter each disease is considered very fully from a therapeutical standpoint, the applications and special indications of the different remedies in the different phases of that particular affection being given. It is not a wonder that this work was quickly adopted by many colleges as a text-book and so liberally pur chased as to necessitate the publication of a third edition within two years. The student will find its pages filled with the choicest of therapeutical lore, systematically arranged and clearly and forci. bly presented; the practitioner will appreciate its rationality and its general utility as an elbow consultant. It contains, without question, the best exposition of modern therapeutics of any textbook with which we are acquainted.-The Chicago Clinical Review, March, 1893.

Maisch's Materia Medica. Fifth Edition.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica; Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms. For the Use of Students, Druggists, Pharmacists and Physicians. By JOHN M. MAISCH, Phar. D., Prof. of Materia Medica and Botany in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. New (fifth) edition, thoroughly revised. In one very handsome 12mo. volume of 544 pages, with 270 engravings. Cloth, $3.00

This is an excellent manual of organic materia | medica, as are all the works that emanate from the skilful pen of such a successful teacher as John M. Maisch. The book speaks for itself in the most forcible language. In the edition before us which is the fifth one published within the comparatively short space of eight years (and this is the best proof of the great value of the work and the just favor with which it has been received and accepted), the original contents have been thoroughly revised and much good and new matter has been incorporated. We have nothing but praise for Professor Maisch's work. It presents no weak

point, even for the most severe critic. The book fully sustains the wide and well-earned reputa tion of its popular author. In the special line of work of which it treats it is fully up to the most recent observations and investigations. After a careful perusal of the book, we do not hesitate to recommend Maisch's Manual of Organic Materia Medica as one of the best, if not the best work on the subject thus far published. Its usefulness cannot well be dispensed with, and students, druggists, pharmacists and physicians should all pos sess a copy of such a valuable book.-Medical News, December 31, 1892.

Edes' Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

A Text-Book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. Intended for the Use of Students and Practitioners. By ROBERT T. EDES, M. D., Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine in Harvard University. Octavo, 544 pp. Cloth, $3.50; leather, $4.50.

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