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Physiology and Pharmacology for Pharmaceutical Students. 3rd ed. By Harold Hayden Barber. Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1951. x + 622 pp. Illustrated. 15 × 22.3 cm. Price $6.50
January, 1952
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The Lipids: Their Chemistry and Biochemistry. Val. I. By HARRYJ. DEUEL,Jr. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1951. xxiv 982 pp. 16.5 x 23.8 cm. Price 818.50. I n this volume the author, who is dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southern California, has attempted to correlate the available information on the various components includcd under the broad and general classification of lipids. In the first volume only a chemical approach to the subject is included. Volume 11, to be published later, will concern itself exclusively with thc biochemical ?rid nutritioual considerations involving the lipids. The scope of the book can best be realized by the titles of the 10 chapters which are a s follows: gencral characteristics and classification of lipids; the chemistry of fatty acids and glycerol; the chemistry of neutral Fats; waxes, higher alcohols including sterols, triterpenes, glyceryl ethers, colored fats, and hydrocarbons; chemistry of the phosphatidcs and ccrehrosides; carotenoids and related coinpoutids ; distributiou, properties, and chemistry of the vitamins A; distribution, properties, and chemistry of the provitamins D and vitamins D ; distribution, properties, and chemistry of the vitamin E group; and distribution, properties, and chemistry of the vitamin K group. The book is written in a simple straightforward manner understandable to readers who are not necessarily specialists in the individual fields covercd. The book is well documcntcd, provided with an author index of plant aud animal sources of lipids, and an unusually complete subject index. The book should be useful to anyone requiring knowledge of the chemistry of the many products classified as lipids. The printing and binding of thc book are up to the usual standard of excelleiice of Interscience Publishers.
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ceutical Society of Great Britain, and the examinations for degrees in pharmacy in English universities. The title of the book is, in a way, misleading, because the greater emphasis is on physiology instead of on pharmacology. A detailed description of laboratory exercises in histology, experimental physiology, and physiological chemistry is included at the end of each chapter. The book is clearly written and includes a liberal number of illustrations which serve to add materially to the clarity of the text. Dr. Barber’s book appears to be admirably suited for the teaching of a basic course in physiology to pharmacy students who do not intend to become professional pharmacologists. Scieace French Course. By C. $1’. PAGET MOFFATT. Revised by NOELCORCORAN. Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1951. viii 332 pp. 12 x 19 cm. Price $4.75. This book is designed for students having no previous knowledgc of the French language, to enable them to acquire a reading knowledge of scientific and technical litcrature in that language. The first onethird of the book is devoted to the elements of grammar which are limited to the bare essentials. If this section is mastered, howcver, i t should enable the student to progress fairly rapidly through increasingly difficult graded reading exercises. Reading exercises of increasing difficulty covering every branch of science, make up the major part of the remainder of the book. For the graduate student in pharmaceutical chemistry, for example, the reading exercises in chemistry appear to be too few in number to insure a sufficient reading kuowledge of chcmical French to enable him to progress to the reading of original articles in French phartnaceutical and chemical journals. A detailed alphabetical vocabulary is provided which adds to the value of the book.
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Essentials of Pharmacology. 2nd ed. By FRANCES K. OLDHAM, F. E. KELSEY,and E. M. K. GEIL- Pharmaceutical Dispensing. 4th ed. By WILLIAM ING. J. B. Lippiricott Co., Philadelphia, 1951. HTISA. Distributed by Husa Brothers, College xvi 462 pp. 13x 20 cm. Price $5. arid Dubuque Sts., Iowa City, Iowa, 1951. vii This book presents quite briefly ccrtain essential X 1 1 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23.6 cm. Price $6.
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information concernirig many drugs in current use. In each chapter a group of drugs possessing similar activity is discussed. A list of official preparations and a selected bibliography a t the end of each chapter increases the significance and usefulncss of the book for refereuce purposes. Thc book includes a discussion of the role of radioactive isotopes in medicine and medical research, a most comprehensive section on adrenergic blocking agents, a new chapter devoted to ganglionic blocking agents and muscle relaxants, aad an extensive revision of the section 011 antihistaminics. New drugs such as cortisone, ACTH, and the antibiotics, are also included.
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This book has undergone three revisions since the first edition was published in 1935. The style adopted for the first edition has been maintained in each revision, but the new fourth edition, like the second and third editions, shows that the latest rcvision has been unusually thorough. Much obsolete material has been deleted and replaced with new information aud new prescriptions. Among some of the new material discussed in the text are soluble ointment bases, methylcellulose jellies, the use of blenders in the preparation of emulsions, a new type of mortar and pestle, the microfilming of prescriptions, and the receiving of prescriptions by wire recorder attached to the telcphone. The chapter on institutional pharmacy has been revised by includPhysiology and Pharmacology for Pharmaceutical ing new information relative to the practice of pharHAYDEN BARBER. macy in the Army and the Navy. The chapter on Students. 3rd ed. By HAROLD Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1951. incornpatabilities, which has been excellent in pre622 pp. Illustrated. 15 x 22.3 cm. Price vious editions, has been brought up to date by the x 16.50. addition of new sections on antihistaminics, quatcrThis book was written specifically for pharma- nary ammonium compounds, and other uew drugs. Dr. Husa’s book should find ready acceptance by ceutical students in Great Britain, for their use in preparing for the final examinations of the Pharma- educators, students, and practicing pharmacists.
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57
SCIENTIFIC EDITION
The Lipids: Their Chemistry and Biochemistry. Val. I. By HARRYJ. DEUEL,Jr. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1951. xxiv 982 pp. 16.5 x 23.8 cm. Price 818.50. I n this volume the author, who is dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southern California, has attempted to correlate the available information on the various components includcd under the broad and general classification of lipids. In the first volume only a chemical approach to the subject is included. Volume 11, to be published later, will concern itself exclusively with thc biochemical ?rid nutritioual considerations involving the lipids. The scope of the book can best be realized by the titles of the 10 chapters which are a s follows: gencral characteristics and classification of lipids; the chemistry of fatty acids and glycerol; the chemistry of neutral Fats; waxes, higher alcohols including sterols, triterpenes, glyceryl ethers, colored fats, and hydrocarbons; chemistry of the phosphatidcs and ccrehrosides; carotenoids and related coinpoutids ; distributiou, properties, and chemistry of the vitamins A; distribution, properties, and chemistry of the provitamins D and vitamins D ; distribution, properties, and chemistry of the vitamin E group; and distribution, properties, and chemistry of the vitamin K group. The book is written in a simple straightforward manner understandable to readers who are not necessarily specialists in the individual fields covercd. The book is well documcntcd, provided with an author index of plant aud animal sources of lipids, and an unusually complete subject index. The book should be useful to anyone requiring knowledge of the chemistry of the many products classified as lipids. The printing and binding of thc book are up to the usual standard of excelleiice of Interscience Publishers.
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ceutical Society of Great Britain, and the examinations for degrees in pharmacy in English universities. The title of the book is, in a way, misleading, because the greater emphasis is on physiology instead of on pharmacology. A detailed description of laboratory exercises in histology, experimental physiology, and physiological chemistry is included at the end of each chapter. The book is clearly written and includes a liberal number of illustrations which serve to add materially to the clarity of the text. Dr. Barber’s book appears to be admirably suited for the teaching of a basic course in physiology to pharmacy students who do not intend to become professional pharmacologists. Scieace French Course. By C. $1’. PAGET MOFFATT. Revised by NOELCORCORAN. Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1951. viii 332 pp. 12 x 19 cm. Price $4.75. This book is designed for students having no previous knowledgc of the French language, to enable them to acquire a reading knowledge of scientific and technical litcrature in that language. The first onethird of the book is devoted to the elements of grammar which are limited to the bare essentials. If this section is mastered, howcver, i t should enable the student to progress fairly rapidly through increasingly difficult graded reading exercises. Reading exercises of increasing difficulty covering every branch of science, make up the major part of the remainder of the book. For the graduate student in pharmaceutical chemistry, for example, the reading exercises in chemistry appear to be too few in number to insure a sufficient reading kuowledge of chcmical French to enable him to progress to the reading of original articles in French phartnaceutical and chemical journals. A detailed alphabetical vocabulary is provided which adds to the value of the book.
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Essentials of Pharmacology. 2nd ed. By FRANCES K. OLDHAM, F. E. KELSEY,and E. M. K. GEIL- Pharmaceutical Dispensing. 4th ed. By WILLIAM ING. J. B. Lippiricott Co., Philadelphia, 1951. HTISA. Distributed by Husa Brothers, College xvi 462 pp. 13x 20 cm. Price $5. arid Dubuque Sts., Iowa City, Iowa, 1951. vii This book presents quite briefly ccrtain essential X 1 1 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 23.6 cm. Price $6.
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information concernirig many drugs in current use. In each chapter a group of drugs possessing similar activity is discussed. A list of official preparations and a selected bibliography a t the end of each chapter increases the significance and usefulncss of the book for refereuce purposes. Thc book includes a discussion of the role of radioactive isotopes in medicine and medical research, a most comprehensive section on adrenergic blocking agents, a new chapter devoted to ganglionic blocking agents and muscle relaxants, aad an extensive revision of the section 011 antihistaminics. New drugs such as cortisone, ACTH, and the antibiotics, are also included.
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This book has undergone three revisions since the first edition was published in 1935. The style adopted for the first edition has been maintained in each revision, but the new fourth edition, like the second and third editions, shows that the latest rcvision has been unusually thorough. Much obsolete material has been deleted and replaced with new information aud new prescriptions. Among some of the new material discussed in the text are soluble ointment bases, methylcellulose jellies, the use of blenders in the preparation of emulsions, a new type of mortar and pestle, the microfilming of prescriptions, and the receiving of prescriptions by wire recorder attached to the telcphone. The chapter on institutional pharmacy has been revised by includPhysiology and Pharmacology for Pharmaceutical ing new information relative to the practice of pharHAYDEN BARBER. macy in the Army and the Navy. The chapter on Students. 3rd ed. By HAROLD Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1951. incornpatabilities, which has been excellent in pre622 pp. Illustrated. 15 x 22.3 cm. Price vious editions, has been brought up to date by the x 16.50. addition of new sections on antihistaminics, quatcrThis book was written specifically for pharma- nary ammonium compounds, and other uew drugs. Dr. Husa’s book should find ready acceptance by ceutical students in Great Britain, for their use in preparing for the final examinations of the Pharma- educators, students, and practicing pharmacists.
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