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Dr. Thorns is a corresponding member of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association and his work in the investigation of synthetic remedies, secret preparations, and other chemical matters of interest to the medical profession is too well and favorably known to need comment. The volume contains reports of investigations of medicines, foods, technical products, colonial products, etc., as well as reports of much original work in pure and applied chemistry. In the section devoted to medicines we have the work of Zernik on the most important new remedies of the year 1908 and investigations of secret remedies by various workers. The work on the new remedies is of vast importance. It puts before the profession an account of the composition and properties of the new synthetics from a disinterested source. References to the literature are appended. An idea of the prolific character of chemical industry