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Dextran and Its Use in Colloidal Infusion Solutions. By Anders Gronwall. Academic press inc., New York, 1957. 156 pp. 14 × 21.5 cm. Price $4
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43, thrcc vcilumes were rcvicwed in THIS JOURNAL, 445( 19%); 44, 385(1955), :ind 45, filO(l956). Volume I V contains di\cu+ion\ by selcctcd coiitributor5 0 1 1 : L)ctcr~niri:~t~~~i of carotene, l~eterinination of vitamin A, Mcasurcnient of polyunsaturated fatty acids, Determination of 17,21-dihydroxy-20ketosteroids in urine and plasma, The pH-stat and its use in biochemistry, Assay of sulfatases, Determination of serum acid phosphatases, Determination of amino acids by use of bacterial amino acid decarboxylases, and Determination of succinic dehydrogenase activity. I n addition to references for each chapter, author and subject indexes for volume I V and cumulative author and subject (titles of reports) for volumes I-IV are appended This volume in a very useful series continues the excellent style, format, and binding of the earlier volumes.
Dextran and Its Use in Colloidal Infusion Solutions. By ANDERSGRONWALL. Academic Press Inc., New York, 1957. 156 pp. 14 X 21.5 cm. Price $4. This monograph, by one of the two Swedish men who introduced the colloidal infusion solution of dextran, is divided into the following chapters: Production and chemistry of undegraded dextmns, Partial depolymerization of dcxtraus and properties of depolymerization products, Adaptation of molecular dimensions of dextratis to the desired therapeutic effect, On the fate of intravenously administered dextran, Serology of dextrans, Hemodyuamic and shock therapeutic effect of dextran solutions in animal experiments, and Clinical investigations with dextran solutions. References are given after each chapter but no general index is included. The brief text includes much interesting information; although one might have difficulty in finding it without a n index.
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znd its utilization by plants; and L’Energze Chlorophyllirnc (Chlorophyll and Energy), the second, deals with the chertiistry of chlorophpl~and photosynthesis. The text i\ iritei esting and well written, And is d good compilation of diversified yet related information in this field. A more complete index would be helpful for reference to specific items.
The Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds. By EUGENEC. ROCHOW,DALLAST. HURD, and RICHARDN. LEWIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1957. vi 344 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Price $8.50. This book includes recent developments in its discussions on structure and physical properties, preparation, reactions, and applications of organo. metallic compounds. The size of the book has been restricted by the authors’ critical selectivity of topics and examples, and their realistic limitation of the discussions on Grignard reagents. The text material is organized on the basis of the general properties of the carbon-metal bond; electronegativity and bond polarity have been used as indicative of the type of organometallic compound to be expected in a given instance. After discussing general factors related to organometallic compounds and presenting the theory of the carbon-metal bond and the methods of preparation, the compounds ate taken up in the order of the elemental groups I through VII. Concluding chapters take up the transition metals, organometallic compounds in organic synthesis, and special types of compounds. References are given throughout the text and author and subject indexes are appended. The book should be useful t o graduate students and research workers in this field.
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British Pharmaceutical Codex 1954 (1957 Supplement). Edited by the CODEXREVISION COMMITTEE. The Pharmaceutical Press, London, 1957. Symposium on Arteriosclerosis. Bull. schweiz. xii 124 pp. 14 x 22.5 cm. Price S1.7s., 6d. A k a d . med. Wiss. Vol. XIII, Special Number This Supplement includfs the new monographs (April, 1957), Benno Schwabe and Company, added to the British Pharmacopoeia by thc AddenBasel, Switzerland, 1957. vii 488 pp. 16 x 24 dum 1955; it lists the monographs that were transcm. ferred from the Codex 1954 [see review in THIS After the opening lecture on ways of managing JOURNAL, 44, 190(1963)] to the B. P., gives modifiarteriosclerosis, the symposium was divided into three cations of B. P. monographs with changes in formusections: Blood-vessel factors and arteriosclerosis las, and indicates deletions from the Codex 1954. A (13 papers), Metabolism and arteriosclerosis (24 monograph on reserpine includes as the assay a papers), Clinic and therapy (7 papers). Each paper direct nonaqueous titration in glacial acetic acid is published in the language in which it was prewith 0.05 N perchloric-acetic acid using solution of sented, but each has a summary in English, French, quinaldine red as indicator. Reserpine tablets are and German. Notes from the discussions are ap- assayed by centrifuge extraction of the powdered pended. An author index t o these papers is in- sample with chloroform and measurement of the excluded. tinction of a 1-cm. layer of the solution at 268 mp. An interesting development of nomenclature is indicated in the monograph title “Sodium Calciutncdetate” for the calcium chelate of the disoLight, Vegetation and Chlorophyll. By J. TERRIEN, dium salt of ethylene diamine NNN’N’-tetraacetic G. TRUFFAUT,and J. CARLES. Translated by acid, which is referred to in the literature as disodium Philosophical Library, MADGEE. THOMPSON. calcium ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid or disoInc., New York, 1957. 288 pp. 12 x 18.5 cm. dium calcium EDTA, or as the ethylene diaminePrice $6. tetraacetate which is now indicated officially as the This book is a translation of two French publicaED(e)TA(te). The usual excellent work of the Cotions: Lumibre et vtgCtation (Light and vegetation), dex Revision Committee is evident in this Supplement the first, is concerned with light as a form of energy
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JOURNAL O F THE
AMERICANPHARMACEUTICAL
43, thrcc vcilumes were rcvicwed in THIS JOURNAL, 445( 19%); 44, 385(1955), :ind 45, filO(l956). Volume I V contains di\cu+ion\ by selcctcd coiitributor5 0 1 1 : L)ctcr~niri:~t~~~i of carotene, l~eterinination of vitamin A, Mcasurcnient of polyunsaturated fatty acids, Determination of 17,21-dihydroxy-20ketosteroids in urine and plasma, The pH-stat and its use in biochemistry, Assay of sulfatases, Determination of serum acid phosphatases, Determination of amino acids by use of bacterial amino acid decarboxylases, and Determination of succinic dehydrogenase activity. I n addition to references for each chapter, author and subject indexes for volume I V and cumulative author and subject (titles of reports) for volumes I-IV are appended This volume in a very useful series continues the excellent style, format, and binding of the earlier volumes.
Dextran and Its Use in Colloidal Infusion Solutions. By ANDERSGRONWALL. Academic Press Inc., New York, 1957. 156 pp. 14 X 21.5 cm. Price $4. This monograph, by one of the two Swedish men who introduced the colloidal infusion solution of dextran, is divided into the following chapters: Production and chemistry of undegraded dextmns, Partial depolymerization of dcxtraus and properties of depolymerization products, Adaptation of molecular dimensions of dextratis to the desired therapeutic effect, On the fate of intravenously administered dextran, Serology of dextrans, Hemodyuamic and shock therapeutic effect of dextran solutions in animal experiments, and Clinical investigations with dextran solutions. References are given after each chapter but no general index is included. The brief text includes much interesting information; although one might have difficulty in finding it without a n index.
!LSSOCIA?ION
VOl. XLVI, No. 10
znd its utilization by plants; and L’Energze Chlorophyllirnc (Chlorophyll and Energy), the second, deals with the chertiistry of chlorophpl~and photosynthesis. The text i\ iritei esting and well written, And is d good compilation of diversified yet related information in this field. A more complete index would be helpful for reference to specific items.
The Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds. By EUGENEC. ROCHOW,DALLAST. HURD, and RICHARDN. LEWIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1957. vi 344 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Price $8.50. This book includes recent developments in its discussions on structure and physical properties, preparation, reactions, and applications of organo. metallic compounds. The size of the book has been restricted by the authors’ critical selectivity of topics and examples, and their realistic limitation of the discussions on Grignard reagents. The text material is organized on the basis of the general properties of the carbon-metal bond; electronegativity and bond polarity have been used as indicative of the type of organometallic compound to be expected in a given instance. After discussing general factors related to organometallic compounds and presenting the theory of the carbon-metal bond and the methods of preparation, the compounds ate taken up in the order of the elemental groups I through VII. Concluding chapters take up the transition metals, organometallic compounds in organic synthesis, and special types of compounds. References are given throughout the text and author and subject indexes are appended. The book should be useful t o graduate students and research workers in this field.
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British Pharmaceutical Codex 1954 (1957 Supplement). Edited by the CODEXREVISION COMMITTEE. The Pharmaceutical Press, London, 1957. Symposium on Arteriosclerosis. Bull. schweiz. xii 124 pp. 14 x 22.5 cm. Price S1.7s., 6d. A k a d . med. Wiss. Vol. XIII, Special Number This Supplement includfs the new monographs (April, 1957), Benno Schwabe and Company, added to the British Pharmacopoeia by thc AddenBasel, Switzerland, 1957. vii 488 pp. 16 x 24 dum 1955; it lists the monographs that were transcm. ferred from the Codex 1954 [see review in THIS After the opening lecture on ways of managing JOURNAL, 44, 190(1963)] to the B. P., gives modifiarteriosclerosis, the symposium was divided into three cations of B. P. monographs with changes in formusections: Blood-vessel factors and arteriosclerosis las, and indicates deletions from the Codex 1954. A (13 papers), Metabolism and arteriosclerosis (24 monograph on reserpine includes as the assay a papers), Clinic and therapy (7 papers). Each paper direct nonaqueous titration in glacial acetic acid is published in the language in which it was prewith 0.05 N perchloric-acetic acid using solution of sented, but each has a summary in English, French, quinaldine red as indicator. Reserpine tablets are and German. Notes from the discussions are ap- assayed by centrifuge extraction of the powdered pended. An author index t o these papers is in- sample with chloroform and measurement of the excluded. tinction of a 1-cm. layer of the solution at 268 mp. An interesting development of nomenclature is indicated in the monograph title “Sodium Calciutncdetate” for the calcium chelate of the disoLight, Vegetation and Chlorophyll. By J. TERRIEN, dium salt of ethylene diamine NNN’N’-tetraacetic G. TRUFFAUT,and J. CARLES. Translated by acid, which is referred to in the literature as disodium Philosophical Library, MADGEE. THOMPSON. calcium ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid or disoInc., New York, 1957. 288 pp. 12 x 18.5 cm. dium calcium EDTA, or as the ethylene diaminePrice $6. tetraacetate which is now indicated officially as the This book is a translation of two French publicaED(e)TA(te). The usual excellent work of the Cotions: Lumibre et vtgCtation (Light and vegetation), dex Revision Committee is evident in this Supplement the first, is concerned with light as a form of energy
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