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Non-benzenoid aromatic compounds. Edited by David Ginsburg. Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y., 1959. xii + 543 pp. 15 × 23 cm. Price $18
Book Notices Pharmakologie. By VON KNUD 0. M@LLER. Benno Schwabe & Co., Verlag, Basel, Stuttgart, 1958. Available in the U. S. from Intercontinental Medical Book Corp., 381 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y. 902 pp. 17 X 24.5 cm. A comprehensive textbook and reference volume (in German) on pharmacology. A bitliography of 67 pages, a separate index referring to definitions of terms in the text, and a general subject index are appended. General Endocrinology. 3rd ed. By C. DONNELL TURNER.W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1960. xi 511 pp. 15.5 X 23.5 cm. Price $9.50. Endocrinology is presented by the author from the experimental rather than the applied viewpoint. Almost all the clinical references in the earlier editions have been deleted and more comparative material added in this edition. A short section on the structure and nomenclature of steroid hormones now introduces the chapter on the adrenal cortex. The mechanisms of hormone action have been discussed as fully as present information permitted.
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Detoxicotion Mechanisms. 2nd ed. By R. TECFWN WILLIAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y., 1960. x 796 pp. 14 X 21 cm. Price $19. The author feels that the subtitle “The Metnbolism and Detoxication of Drugs, Toxic Substances and Other Organic Compounds” is a truer indication of the content of this book. The shorter title is retained because it has become well known in the twelve years since the first edition appeared. The manuscript for this edition was completed in 1957.
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Subsidia Pharmaceutica I , 1960 Supplement and Index of Names. Compiled and edited by the
Scientific Center of the Swiss Pharmaceutical Society, and published by the Society, Zurich, 1960. 514 pp. 17 X 24 cm. Ring binder, loose-leaf. Subsidia Pharmaceutica I , a loose-leaf compilation of pharmaceutical information, was first published in 1957 [for a review of the original work see THIS JOURNAL, 47, 763(1958)]. Supplements, issued periodically, extend the coverage of the work, and keep it up-to-date. The 1960 Supplement (in German) comprises 42 Chemicals, Drugs and Health. By JOHN H. FOUL- pages and includes an excellent article on antihisGER. Charles C Thomas, 301-327 East Lawrence taminic drugs in which the pharmacology and clinical Ave., Springfield, Ill., 1960. viii 102 pp. 13.5 uses are described, and a listing of names, structural formulas, and dosage forms of 43 such drugs is X 21.5 cm. given. Other Supplement articles describe a Some important situations faced by a “foreign” modification of a prescription laboratory pressurechemical when it tries to enter or has entered a filtration apparatus suitable for filtering eye waters, living body are reviewed by the author. This was a mobile drying and sterilizing cabinet, and two done t o counteract apprehension that even very forms of disposable polystyrene and polyethylene small amounts of new chemicals may ultimately molds for extemporaneously preparing and disaffect health due to daily skin contact or inhalation. pensing suppositories in the same unit. The 1960 Index of Names is a 466-page alphaNon-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds. Edited by betic, cross-referenced listing of international nonDAVIDGINSBURG. Interscience Publishers, Inc., proprietary names, names used by various phar250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y., 1959. xii macopeias, chemical names, and brand names of 543 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $18. drugs. The structural formula and principal pharSubejcts covered by different authors are: macologic category are provided for each drug. Dr. K. Steiger-Trippi, Director of the Scientific Aromaticity, Cyclobutadiene and related comCenter of t h e Swiss Pharmaceutical Society. and pounds, Compounds derived from cyclopentadiene, Pentalene and heptalene, Azulenes, Pathways to his editorial associates have achieved commendably azulenes, Tropones and tropolones, Cyclooctatet- their objective of providing a variety of up-to-date raene, and Cyclopolyolefins. Author and sub- information useful not only to pharmacists in Switzerland but also t o their professional colleagues ject indexes are appended. throughout the world. General Cytology. 3rd ed. By E. D. P. DERoBERTIS, W. W. NOWINSKI,and FRANCISCO A. Advanced Organic Chemistry. 3rd ed. By G. W. SAEZ.W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington WHELAND. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1960. xvi 555 Ave., New York 16, N. Y.,1960. xi 871 pp. pp. 15.5 X 23.5 cm. Price $10. 15 X 23 cm. Price $17.50. Morphologic, physiologic, and genetic aspects of The structural theory of organic chemistry is modem cytology are stressed in this revision of the stressed and topics of special theoretical significance book. A chapter on plant cells is one of five new are included in the text. This edition includes elecchapters. Cytochernical techniques for cell study tronic and nuclear magnetic resonance, conforare correlated with the results obtained and with mational analysis, inclusion and charge-transfer comconsiderations of progress in this field. pounds, and the Hammett rho-sigma relations.
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Detoxicotion Mechanisms. 2nd ed. By R. TECFWN WILLIAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y., 1960. x 796 pp. 14 X 21 cm. Price $19. The author feels that the subtitle “The Metnbolism and Detoxication of Drugs, Toxic Substances and Other Organic Compounds” is a truer indication of the content of this book. The shorter title is retained because it has become well known in the twelve years since the first edition appeared. The manuscript for this edition was completed in 1957.
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Subsidia Pharmaceutica I , 1960 Supplement and Index of Names. Compiled and edited by the
Scientific Center of the Swiss Pharmaceutical Society, and published by the Society, Zurich, 1960. 514 pp. 17 X 24 cm. Ring binder, loose-leaf. Subsidia Pharmaceutica I , a loose-leaf compilation of pharmaceutical information, was first published in 1957 [for a review of the original work see THIS JOURNAL, 47, 763(1958)]. Supplements, issued periodically, extend the coverage of the work, and keep it up-to-date. The 1960 Supplement (in German) comprises 42 Chemicals, Drugs and Health. By JOHN H. FOUL- pages and includes an excellent article on antihisGER. Charles C Thomas, 301-327 East Lawrence taminic drugs in which the pharmacology and clinical Ave., Springfield, Ill., 1960. viii 102 pp. 13.5 uses are described, and a listing of names, structural formulas, and dosage forms of 43 such drugs is X 21.5 cm. given. Other Supplement articles describe a Some important situations faced by a “foreign” modification of a prescription laboratory pressurechemical when it tries to enter or has entered a filtration apparatus suitable for filtering eye waters, living body are reviewed by the author. This was a mobile drying and sterilizing cabinet, and two done t o counteract apprehension that even very forms of disposable polystyrene and polyethylene small amounts of new chemicals may ultimately molds for extemporaneously preparing and disaffect health due to daily skin contact or inhalation. pensing suppositories in the same unit. The 1960 Index of Names is a 466-page alphaNon-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds. Edited by betic, cross-referenced listing of international nonDAVIDGINSBURG. Interscience Publishers, Inc., proprietary names, names used by various phar250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y., 1959. xii macopeias, chemical names, and brand names of 543 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $18. drugs. The structural formula and principal pharSubejcts covered by different authors are: macologic category are provided for each drug. Dr. K. Steiger-Trippi, Director of the Scientific Aromaticity, Cyclobutadiene and related comCenter of t h e Swiss Pharmaceutical Society. and pounds, Compounds derived from cyclopentadiene, Pentalene and heptalene, Azulenes, Pathways to his editorial associates have achieved commendably azulenes, Tropones and tropolones, Cyclooctatet- their objective of providing a variety of up-to-date raene, and Cyclopolyolefins. Author and sub- information useful not only to pharmacists in Switzerland but also t o their professional colleagues ject indexes are appended. throughout the world. General Cytology. 3rd ed. By E. D. P. DERoBERTIS, W. W. NOWINSKI,and FRANCISCO A. Advanced Organic Chemistry. 3rd ed. By G. W. SAEZ.W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington WHELAND. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1960. xvi 555 Ave., New York 16, N. Y.,1960. xi 871 pp. pp. 15.5 X 23.5 cm. Price $10. 15 X 23 cm. Price $17.50. Morphologic, physiologic, and genetic aspects of The structural theory of organic chemistry is modem cytology are stressed in this revision of the stressed and topics of special theoretical significance book. A chapter on plant cells is one of five new are included in the text. This edition includes elecchapters. Cytochernical techniques for cell study tronic and nuclear magnetic resonance, conforare correlated with the results obtained and with mational analysis, inclusion and charge-transfer comconsiderations of progress in this field. pounds, and the Hammett rho-sigma relations.
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