Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BOOK NOTICES
which he lives, etc., to the sanitorium treatment,
to the duties of modern municipal
health authorities, etc., etc.
The book is adequately illustrated, well
indexed, and is in large type.
Dr. Knopf has succeeded admirably in
presenting a volume containing what the
patient should know and eliminating that
which he should not know of his disease.
Atlas and Epitome of Ophthalmoscopy and
Ophthalmoscopic Diagnosis. By Professor
Dr. O. Haab, of Zurich. Edited,
with additions, by George E. deSchweinitz,
M. D., Professor of Ophthalmologv,
University of Pennsylvania. Second Revised
Edition. Philadelphia and London:
\V. B. Saunders Company, 10(i9.
The second American edition of Haab's
Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy is an excellent
work for all students of ophthalmology, as
well as for those who are interested in the
subject. It is of convenient size, well
printed, and the chromo-lithographic plates
are very good representations of the conditions
depicted. The first part of the work
is devoted to a description of the technique
of ophthalmoscopy in all of its phases.
Then follow the colored plates. A description
of each plate is found on the page opposite
to the plate. There are a number of
colored plates illustrating the pathology of
many of the diseases of the retina and choroid.
These are fully described. The work
is quite complete and we take pleasure in
recommending it.
Principlesof Pharmacy. By Henry V. Amy,
Ph. ()., Ph. I)., Professor of Pharmacv
at the Cleveland School of Pharmacy,
I'harmacy Dept. of Western Reserve University.
Octavo of 117.S pages, with 24.5
illustrations, mostly original. Cloth,
$.5.00 net; Half Morocco, $6.00 net. W.
B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, 19nv.
The subject of pharmacy as understood
by the writer consi.stsof the practical application
of the sciences of physics and chemistry
to medicines and their preparations,
as well as sufficient botany to appreciate the
character of those vegetable drugs entering
into pharmaceutical preparations. An ex
planation of the principles underlying the
science of chemistry is given in brief intro
ductory chapters to Parts III. and I\'.
While not desiring to hamper instruction
by artificial limitations, the entire subject
of pharmacy is so vast that some gleanings
of essentials from those substances of minor
importance appeals to teachers as imperative,
and we are fortunate in having a
means of elimination in the use of our national
standard, the United States Pharma
copeia. Of course, no pharmaceutical in
Struction would prove suflBcieut were all
unofficial drugs excluded, but the existence
of a pharmacopeia makes it possible to use
that work as the basis of instruction, and
in drilling the student in official substances,
ample opportunity is afforded to refer to
those unofficials suggested by the pharmacopeial
preparation under consideration.
This book explains the pharmacopeia from
its pharmaceutical standpoint, and if that
standard says that a certain chemical is
"dextrogyrate ketone," or that a certain
drug is a "sclerotium" the average student
should be able to learn what such terms
mean without having to search through a
dozen books. The author disclaims all
attempts to offer this as a text-book in
chemistry or botany.
The book consists of seven parts:
Part I. deals with pharmaceutical processes
and a striking feature is the discussion
of the arithmetic of pharmacy.
Part II. deals with the galencial preparations
of the pharmacopeia and those unofficials
worthy of notice. It will be noticed
that, wherever possible, these preparations
are grouped around a typical pharmacopeial
receipe, thus avoiding repetition.
Part III. deals with the inorganic chemicals
used in pharmacy, has an introductory
chapter on chemical theories, and discusses
chemical arithmetic very fully.
Part IV'. discusses the organic chemicals
used in pharmacy, and that according to the
most modern classification. Like Part III.,
it begins with an introductory chapter on
the theory of the clsss of chemicals discussed.
Part V. is devoted to the chemical testing,
and presents a systematic grouping of all
the tests of the pharmacopeia, a feature not
found in any other book.
Part VI. takes up the prescription from
the time it is written to the time it is dispensed.
Part V'll. gives the laboratory work which
has been followed with much succe.ss by the
Cleveland School of Pharmacy. A notable
feature of this part is the exercise in equation
writing and in chemical arithmetic that
the work affords.
The volume is well illustrated and will
prove of great value to the practioner and
student.
A Magazine of Merit.
Having rounded out its first five hundred
months of existence with the August number,
LiPPiNCoTT's M.\G.\ziNE Starts out
with September as though it could see a far
longer vista of months and years of life
ahead of ii. And there is no reason why !t
shouldn't, so long as its present high quality
is sustained.
The novelette for September has a sur-