Bentley's textbook of pharmaceutics. 5th ed. Revised by Harold Davis. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1949. xiv + 1100 pp. Illustrated. 14 × 22 cm. Price $ 7.50

Bentley's textbook of pharmaceutics. 5th ed. Revised by Harold Davis. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1949. xiv + 1100 pp. Illustrated. 14 × 22 cm. Price $ 7.50

SCIENTIFIC EDITION 667 Although Volume I of this new publication contains many scholarly articles of interest t o chemists, perhaps pharmacists will...

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SCIENTIFIC EDITION

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Although Volume I of this new publication contains many scholarly articles of interest t o chemists, perhaps pharmacists will be most interested in “The Early Chemical and Pharmaceutical History of Calomel” by our own Dr. George Urdang. Although most of us cannot haye the opportunity of browsing through the Smith Collection, Chymia brings much of the spirit of the collection into our homes in an informative and interesting fashion.

Due to the death in 1943 of Arthur Owen Bentley, the author of the previous editions, the fifth edition has been revised by Harold Davis, Chief Pharmacist of the University College Hospital of London, with the collaboration of M. W. Partridge and A. I. Robinson. The major author and editor has retained as much as possible of the previous. edition, but all parts have been carefully edited and ,the sections (V and VI) on pharmaceutical microbiology and on surgical dressings, sutures, and ligatures have been completely rewritten. Part I America’s Health, A Report to the Nation. By The of the book includes a short history of the British National Health Assembly. Official Report. Har- Pharmacopceia and Part I1 explains the general 395 principles involved in pharmaceutical operations. per and Brothers, New York, 1949. xiv pp. 15 x 23 cm. Price $4.50. In Part 111 pharmaceutical manufacturing is In May, 1948, the National Health Assembly stressed while Part IV is concerned mainly with convened in Washington at the behest of the Presi- the general principles involved in dispensing. dent of the United States in order t o consider the I n Part VII systematic consideration is given t o the entire question of public health policy for the next preparations of the 1948 British Pharmacopoeia decade. This is the official report of that assembly. and selected galenicals of the British Pharmaceutical The Assembly comprised about 800 representatives Codex. In this section reference is also made t o of professional organizations and public and private many drugs of the United States Pharmacopceia agencies. A group of 38 outstanding persons were which are identical with or resemble those in the selected as an executive committee. Pharmacy was British Pharmacopoeia. Despite the fact that this represented on this committee, whose members were textbook and reference book is written from the consulted both individually and as a group on all standpoint of the needs of British readers, many basic decisions, by Dr. Robert P. Fischelis, Secre- parts of it are of universal application and interest. PHAR- Practicing pharmacists, teachers, and students of tary and General Manager of the AMERICAN pharmacy will find this new fifth edition of Bentley’s MACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.Fourteen divisions, each representing a key health problem, made up the Textbook of Pharmaceutics an unusually interesting Assembly and each of these divisions is represented and useful reference book. in this report as a chapter. The following subjects were cove red : Lunge’s Handbook of Chemistry. 7th ed. EDITED What Is the Nation’s Need for Health and MediBY NORBERT ADOLPHLANGE. Handbook Pubcal Personnel? lishers, Sandusky, Ohio, 1949. xvi 1920 pp. What Is the Nation’s Need for Hospital Facilities, 13 x 20 cm. Price $7. Health Centers, and Diagnostic Clinics? What Is the Nation’s Need for Local Health Units? The editor of this useful handbook states in the Chronic Disease and the Aging Process. preface to the new seventh edition that first conA National Program for Maternal and Child sideration has been given to a thorough revision of Health. materials previously presented instead of merely A National Program for Rural Health. What Is the Nation’s Need for Research in the adding new tables without bringing standing material up t o date. The use of this book as a reference Service of Health? during several weeks will lead the user t o believe What Is the Nation’s Need for Medical Care? that this aim has been adequately accomplished. State and Community Planning for Health. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A fairly high proportion of tables which have apWhat Can Be Done t o Improve Dental Health? peared in previous editions have been extended or A National Program for Mental Health. completely rewritten and a number of tables not in What Can Be Done to Improve Nutrition? the previous editions are now offered for the first A National Program of Environmental Sanita- time. Among the tables included for the first tion. time are: Abundance of the Elements; Glyceride International Cooperation in Health. Content of Drying Oils; Properties of Hormones; We hear much of medical-care programs these ASTM Classification of Coals by Rank; Formulas days, and much of the basis for any discussion for Calculating Mineral-free BTU and Fixed Carbon; originates with this report of the National Health Density of Fuming Sulfuric Acid Solutions; DiAssembly. This is the “Pharmaceutical Survey’’ electric Constants; Dipole Moments; Mass of of the medicalcare field, and pharmacists would do Water in Saturated Air; Partial Pressures of well t o study it. Aqueous Ammonia Solutions; Kopp’s Rule for Calculating Specific Heat; Logarithms of Equilibrium Constants; Viscosity of Aqueous Sucrose Bentley’s Textbook .of Pharmaceutics. 5th ed. Solutions; and Viscosity of Aqueous Ethyl Alcohol DAVIS. Williams & Wilkins, Solutions. REVISEDBY HAROLD 1100 pp. Illustrated. Baltimore, 1949. xiv Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry is so inclusive in 14 x 22 cm. Price $7.50. its scope that it should be useful as a reference t o This useful textbook, the first edition of which anyone having t o do with any phase of chemistry. appeared in 1926, is well and favorably known t o Pharmaceutical chemists and pharmacists will find pharmaceutical educators and pharmacists of the in the new edition, as in previous editions, much United States because of the excellence of the or- significant and frequently needed reference material of interest t o them. ganization and presentation of its subject matter.

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