Klinik und therapie der vergiftungen

KLINIK UND THERAPIE DER VERGIFTUNGEN. By Sven Moeschlin. Pp. 521. Indexed. Stuttgart, Germany, 1955. George Thieme Verlag. (In the U. S. A. and Canada, Price $14.05. The Intercontinental Medical Book Corporation, New York, N. Y.). This book by an eminent European physician is now in its second edition. It has been translated into several foreign languages, but has not yet appeared in an English edition. The field of toxicology is inherently difficult to describe in a fashion which is complete, authoritative, or readable, let alone all three. Dr. Moeschlin has made a good try at achieving a definitive text, and his book is at least as good as many on this subject available in English. It has defects, such as occasional questionable therapeutic advice or failure to refer to key articles in literature, but so has every other text on toxicology. The barrier posed by the publication of the work in German is sufficient to minimize the usefulness of this book for the American public. The publishers would be well advised to consider an English edition if they desire to compete successfully with already available texts on this subject. Louis Lasagna

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