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Hydrogen peroxide, A. C. S. Monograph No. 128. By WALTER C. SCHUMB, CHARLES N. SATTERFIELD, and RALPH L. WENTWORTH. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, 1955. xiii+759 pp. 16 × 23.5 cm. Price $16.50
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Vol. XLV, No. 2
Organic Insecticides-Their Chemistry and Mode of Action. By ROBERTL. METCALF. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1955. x 392 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $8.50. This book is an outgrowth of a monograph entitled “The Mode of Action of Organic Insecticides,” published in 1948 as Review No. 1 of the ChemicalBiological Coordination Center, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. It is designed t o furnish information regarding the chemistry and mode of action of insecticides, the relation of their chemical structure to toxicity, their metabolism in plants and animals, and their toxic hazards to higher animals. Most of the available information on Hydrogen Peroxide, A. C. S. Monograph No. 128. these subjects has been summarized into a coherent pattern dealing with organic insecticides. By WALTERC. SCHUMB,CHARLESN. SATTERThe book includes fourteen chapters and covers a FIELD, and RALPHL. WENTWORTH.Reinhold number of d s e r e n t types of organic insecticides Publishing Corporation, New York, 1955. xiii with chapters on the synergistic action of insecti759 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $16.50. cides and insecticide resistance. This book represents a worthy addition to the The book should be of particular value to the inAmerican Chemical Society’s series of chemical vestigator in the field of insecticides, toxicology, monographs. It presents, for the first time in and the development of new insecticides. The book English, a comprehensive treatise on the manufac- is adequately documented throughout with referture, properties, technology, and uses of hydrogen ences to the original literature and it is provided with peroxide. an excellent subject index. The book begins with the history and technical development of hydrogen peroxide, which is followed by descriptions of currently used and potential methods of manufacture. Other chapters are deClassics of Biology. By AUGUST PI SURER. Authorvoted to such topics as purification and handling; ized English translation by Charles M. Stern. physical, thermodynamic, electrical and chemical Philosophical Library, Inc., 1955. x 323 pp. properties ; molecular structure and association ; 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Price $7.50. catalysis and reaction mechanisms; stability; methThis survey, written by an outstanding biologist, ods of qualitative and quantitative analysis; and uses of hydrogen peroxide including bleaching, oxi- covers the high points of progress in the study of dation, and as a source of energy. The last chapter biology by providing fragmentary portions of the deals with a preparation of inorganic peroxides and philosophical theories which have been propounded superperoxides and describes the metallic and non- in different ages up t o our own time. Famous conmetallic peroxy compounds, peroxy acids, and salts. troversies are discussed and illustrated b y textual More than 2,500 literature references are cited in extracts from the outstanding publications of more this new monograph. Hydrogen peroxide is a than sixty writers. Through this device the reader is introduced t o thinkers whose fame may not be too versatile chemical having applications in many of well known among English speaking peoples. the chemical industries. T o all who are concerned The book is provided with an excellent index and with the applications of peroxides in one way or another, this book is indispensable. Its value is en- the book is attractively printed and bound. It hanced by a n author index and a thoroughly satis- probably will appeal most to teachers of biology, factory subject index. The printing and binding philosophy, and the history of science, but it also are of the same quality that has characterized the should be of interest t o the general reader, who will A. C. S. series of chemical monographs from the find the contents of the book stimulating and well worth reading. beginning.
peutic action, a t the end of each section, and adapted to the various species. These prescriptions, in general, require official drugs, although in a few instances products are referred t o by proprietary names. In the course of preparation of the Manual, more than 200 authorities in various fields of verterinary medicine contributed either as authors or consultants with the editorial directors of the Merck Verterinary Research Department. The book is provided with an unusually extensive subject index with cross-index entries provided to increase its reference value.
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BOOKS RECEIVED A Short History of Medicine. By ERWIN H. ACKER- Textbook of Phurmacognosy. 3rd ed. By T . E. WALLIS. J. & A. Churchill Ltd., London (Little, KNECHT. The Ronald Press, New York, 1956. xviii 258 pp. 14 x 21 cm. Price $4.50. IllusBrown and Company, Boston) 1955. xi 578 pp. 15 x 22.2 cm. Price $7.50. trated. Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Pharmacy. Methoden der organisckn Chemie (Houben-Weyl) . HENRYM. BURLAGE, Editor. McGraw-Hill By EUGENEM ~ L E R .Vol. IX, Schwefel-, Selen-, Book Company, Inc., New York, 1956. xv 4-271 Tellur-Verbindungen. Georg Thieme Verlag, pp. 21.2 x 28 cm. Paper back. Price $4.50. Stuttgart, 1955. xix 1337 pp. 19 x 26 cm. The Systemafic Identification of Organic Compounds. Price D M 196.20. 4th ed. By RALPHL. SHRINER, REYNOLDC. FUSON,and DAVIDY. CURTIN. John Wiley & Collected Papers of Dr. I . C. Rubin, 1910-1954. Published privately, 1954. No consecutive pagiSons, Inc., New York, 1956. ix 426 pp. 14.5 nation. 6.5 x 16 x 23.5 cm. x 22 cm. Price $6.
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JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
Vol. XLV, No. 2
Organic Insecticides-Their Chemistry and Mode of Action. By ROBERTL. METCALF. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1955. x 392 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $8.50. This book is an outgrowth of a monograph entitled “The Mode of Action of Organic Insecticides,” published in 1948 as Review No. 1 of the ChemicalBiological Coordination Center, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. It is designed t o furnish information regarding the chemistry and mode of action of insecticides, the relation of their chemical structure to toxicity, their metabolism in plants and animals, and their toxic hazards to higher animals. Most of the available information on Hydrogen Peroxide, A. C. S. Monograph No. 128. these subjects has been summarized into a coherent pattern dealing with organic insecticides. By WALTERC. SCHUMB,CHARLESN. SATTERThe book includes fourteen chapters and covers a FIELD, and RALPHL. WENTWORTH.Reinhold number of d s e r e n t types of organic insecticides Publishing Corporation, New York, 1955. xiii with chapters on the synergistic action of insecti759 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $16.50. cides and insecticide resistance. This book represents a worthy addition to the The book should be of particular value to the inAmerican Chemical Society’s series of chemical vestigator in the field of insecticides, toxicology, monographs. It presents, for the first time in and the development of new insecticides. The book English, a comprehensive treatise on the manufac- is adequately documented throughout with referture, properties, technology, and uses of hydrogen ences to the original literature and it is provided with peroxide. an excellent subject index. The book begins with the history and technical development of hydrogen peroxide, which is followed by descriptions of currently used and potential methods of manufacture. Other chapters are deClassics of Biology. By AUGUST PI SURER. Authorvoted to such topics as purification and handling; ized English translation by Charles M. Stern. physical, thermodynamic, electrical and chemical Philosophical Library, Inc., 1955. x 323 pp. properties ; molecular structure and association ; 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Price $7.50. catalysis and reaction mechanisms; stability; methThis survey, written by an outstanding biologist, ods of qualitative and quantitative analysis; and uses of hydrogen peroxide including bleaching, oxi- covers the high points of progress in the study of dation, and as a source of energy. The last chapter biology by providing fragmentary portions of the deals with a preparation of inorganic peroxides and philosophical theories which have been propounded superperoxides and describes the metallic and non- in different ages up t o our own time. Famous conmetallic peroxy compounds, peroxy acids, and salts. troversies are discussed and illustrated b y textual More than 2,500 literature references are cited in extracts from the outstanding publications of more this new monograph. Hydrogen peroxide is a than sixty writers. Through this device the reader is introduced t o thinkers whose fame may not be too versatile chemical having applications in many of well known among English speaking peoples. the chemical industries. T o all who are concerned The book is provided with an excellent index and with the applications of peroxides in one way or another, this book is indispensable. Its value is en- the book is attractively printed and bound. It hanced by a n author index and a thoroughly satis- probably will appeal most to teachers of biology, factory subject index. The printing and binding philosophy, and the history of science, but it also are of the same quality that has characterized the should be of interest t o the general reader, who will A. C. S. series of chemical monographs from the find the contents of the book stimulating and well worth reading. beginning.
peutic action, a t the end of each section, and adapted to the various species. These prescriptions, in general, require official drugs, although in a few instances products are referred t o by proprietary names. In the course of preparation of the Manual, more than 200 authorities in various fields of verterinary medicine contributed either as authors or consultants with the editorial directors of the Merck Verterinary Research Department. The book is provided with an unusually extensive subject index with cross-index entries provided to increase its reference value.
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BOOKS RECEIVED A Short History of Medicine. By ERWIN H. ACKER- Textbook of Phurmacognosy. 3rd ed. By T . E. WALLIS. J. & A. Churchill Ltd., London (Little, KNECHT. The Ronald Press, New York, 1956. xviii 258 pp. 14 x 21 cm. Price $4.50. IllusBrown and Company, Boston) 1955. xi 578 pp. 15 x 22.2 cm. Price $7.50. trated. Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Pharmacy. Methoden der organisckn Chemie (Houben-Weyl) . HENRYM. BURLAGE, Editor. McGraw-Hill By EUGENEM ~ L E R .Vol. IX, Schwefel-, Selen-, Book Company, Inc., New York, 1956. xv 4-271 Tellur-Verbindungen. Georg Thieme Verlag, pp. 21.2 x 28 cm. Paper back. Price $4.50. Stuttgart, 1955. xix 1337 pp. 19 x 26 cm. The Systemafic Identification of Organic Compounds. Price D M 196.20. 4th ed. By RALPHL. SHRINER, REYNOLDC. FUSON,and DAVIDY. CURTIN. John Wiley & Collected Papers of Dr. I . C. Rubin, 1910-1954. Published privately, 1954. No consecutive pagiSons, Inc., New York, 1956. ix 426 pp. 14.5 nation. 6.5 x 16 x 23.5 cm. x 22 cm. Price $6.
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