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Livestock Health Encyclopedia. Compiled and edited by Rudolph Seiden. Springer Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1951. x + 614 pp. Illustrated. 16 × 23 5 cm. Price $7.50
Book Reviews Handbook of Dangerous Materials. By iY. IRVING SAX. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, 1951. viii f 848 pp. 19 x 26 cm. Price $15. This book is designed mainly for safety engineers, plant superintendents, and others involved in handling and shipping hazardous chemicals and other materials. I t should, however, serve as a useful addition to the library of any pharmacist who might be called upon for advice relative t o antidotes for poisons and the treatment of injuries resulting from the improper use of rare or unusual chemicals. The book includes more than 5,000 entries of potentially dangerous industrial materials. These substances are alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed according to their generic names, trade mark names, and chemical names. In general, information about each material includes information on toxicity, flammability, storage and handling, physical properties, formulas, and shipping regulations. In most instances, detailed information is furnished on symptoms, treatment, and antidotes, first aid suggestions, personnel safety precautions, fire-extinguishing agents, and other important data. The complete text of the Interstate Commerce Commission Shipping Tariff is reproduced, and a section on radiation and radiation hazards is included. The printing and binding are adequate and the typography has been well designed. The book is provided with a complete general index which enables the user of the book to locate the information he needs promptly.
Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics for Dencists. 4th ed. By WILLIAMH. 0. MCGEHEEand MELVINW. GREEK. The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1952. xviii 550 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $7.50. The quality of this book is demonstrated by the fact that it has undergonF three revisions since the first edition was published in 1936. In the present edition, the authors have continued to limit the scope of the book to a description of scientifically proved information relating to pharnlacology and therapeutics of special interest to dentists. Many parts of the text have been revised or rewritten. Changes in terminology and official names for drugs have been brought into conformity with the latest editions of the U. S. P., the N . F., and Accepted Dental Remedies. The therapeutic index has been enlarged, the subject index has been greatly improved by the inclusion of many additional references and cross references, and the subject of prescription writing has been emphasized to a greater extent than in previous editions. In connection with the newer drugs, their dangers as well as their apparent potential usefulness have been discussed in a restrained and conservative manner. In general, however, the design and style of presentation in the fourth edition follows that of the third edition, a rcview of which was published in THISJOURNAL, 37, 128(1948).
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Livestock Health Encyclopedia. Compiled and edited by RUDOLPH SEIDEN. Springer Publishing Co., Inc., h-ew York, 1951. x 614 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23 5 cm. Price $7.50. Pharmaceutical Preparations. 3rd ed. By GEORGE R. CROSSENand KARL J. GOLDNER.Lea & This book is a comprehensive compilation of Febiger, Philadelphia, 1952. 265 pp. 16 x 24 definitions and descriptions of terms and symptoms cm. Price 84. associated with livestock and with diseases ol large This book is primarily a commentary. on the farm animals, as well as being a general vctcrinary pharmaceutical preparations recognized in the dictionary. I t covers the fields of preventive and U. S. P. XIV and the N. F. IX. A more suitable corrective vcterinary medicine, including the physiological changes, parasitic infestations, mcthtitle for it would be “Official Pharmaceutical Preparations.” The book should be very helpful ods of treatment, actiotls of drugs, and methods of to students of pharmacy because the students application and administration. The author has included many pictures that illusshould be able to give their undivided attention to the teachers’ discussions of the subject matter with- trate pathologic conditions, that show how preventive measures are practiced, and that illustrate out taking extensive notes. The authors’ discussions are concise and clear, regular husbandry techniques such as cnstratlon, and they should be useful as review references t o barn layouts, lamb docking, etc. The material is practicing pharmacists as well as instructive t o well cross-indexed according to scientific and popular students. However, the following statement is terms. Phonetic spelling is used as an aid to corgiven in the discussion of phenolated calamine rect pronunciation. This will be helpful to praclotion: “It has been found that if the polyethylene tical farmers who acquired their knowledge by glycol 400 monostearate be increased from 2 t o 4 cxperience on the farm. Helpful shortcuts in arithmetical prohlenls nr e per cent in calamine lotion, there is no separation given, but the choice of 37% hydrochloric acid for when liquefied phenol is added.” This is not exactly accurate. The information that the Ben- the example of calculations of yo v/v is unfortuzedrex Inhaler contains an amine that is closely nate. This encyclopedia should be especially v
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Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics for Dencists. 4th ed. By WILLIAMH. 0. MCGEHEEand MELVINW. GREEK. The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1952. xviii 550 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23.5 cm. Price $7.50. The quality of this book is demonstrated by the fact that it has undergonF three revisions since the first edition was published in 1936. In the present edition, the authors have continued to limit the scope of the book to a description of scientifically proved information relating to pharnlacology and therapeutics of special interest to dentists. Many parts of the text have been revised or rewritten. Changes in terminology and official names for drugs have been brought into conformity with the latest editions of the U. S. P., the N . F., and Accepted Dental Remedies. The therapeutic index has been enlarged, the subject index has been greatly improved by the inclusion of many additional references and cross references, and the subject of prescription writing has been emphasized to a greater extent than in previous editions. In connection with the newer drugs, their dangers as well as their apparent potential usefulness have been discussed in a restrained and conservative manner. In general, however, the design and style of presentation in the fourth edition follows that of the third edition, a rcview of which was published in THISJOURNAL, 37, 128(1948).
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Livestock Health Encyclopedia. Compiled and edited by RUDOLPH SEIDEN. Springer Publishing Co., Inc., h-ew York, 1951. x 614 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23 5 cm. Price $7.50. Pharmaceutical Preparations. 3rd ed. By GEORGE R. CROSSENand KARL J. GOLDNER.Lea & This book is a comprehensive compilation of Febiger, Philadelphia, 1952. 265 pp. 16 x 24 definitions and descriptions of terms and symptoms cm. Price 84. associated with livestock and with diseases ol large This book is primarily a commentary. on the farm animals, as well as being a general vctcrinary pharmaceutical preparations recognized in the dictionary. I t covers the fields of preventive and U. S. P. XIV and the N. F. IX. A more suitable corrective vcterinary medicine, including the physiological changes, parasitic infestations, mcthtitle for it would be “Official Pharmaceutical Preparations.” The book should be very helpful ods of treatment, actiotls of drugs, and methods of to students of pharmacy because the students application and administration. The author has included many pictures that illusshould be able to give their undivided attention to the teachers’ discussions of the subject matter with- trate pathologic conditions, that show how preventive measures are practiced, and that illustrate out taking extensive notes. The authors’ discussions are concise and clear, regular husbandry techniques such as cnstratlon, and they should be useful as review references t o barn layouts, lamb docking, etc. The material is practicing pharmacists as well as instructive t o well cross-indexed according to scientific and popular students. However, the following statement is terms. Phonetic spelling is used as an aid to corgiven in the discussion of phenolated calamine rect pronunciation. This will be helpful to praclotion: “It has been found that if the polyethylene tical farmers who acquired their knowledge by glycol 400 monostearate be increased from 2 t o 4 cxperience on the farm. Helpful shortcuts in arithmetical prohlenls nr e per cent in calamine lotion, there is no separation given, but the choice of 37% hydrochloric acid for when liquefied phenol is added.” This is not exactly accurate. The information that the Ben- the example of calculations of yo v/v is unfortuzedrex Inhaler contains an amine that is closely nate. This encyclopedia should be especially v
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