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Scientific Terminology. By John N. Hough. Rinehart and Co., Inc., New York, 1953. xiii + 231 pp. 13.5 $ 21 cm. Price $3.50
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terest to practicing pharmacists who require information concerning the drugs used in dental practice. I n addition t o information relating to drugs used by dentists, Accepted Dental Remedies also includes chapters on the provisions for the acceptance of products by the Council on Dental Therapeutics, dental formulas and tables useful in general dental practice, and on symptoms and treatment of acute poisoning. The book is provided with an index to distributors and an unusually well-designed general index. For pharmacists who are interested in supplying dentists with the preparations they use in the office, the chapter on formulas and tables is particularly significant.
Glycerol. Edited by CARL S. MINER and N. N. DALTON. American Chemical Society Monograph Series. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York. 1953. xiv 460 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. I1lustrated. Price $12. This book is the result of a collaborative effort involving leading research scientists and is edited under the sponsorship of the Glycerine Producer’s Association of America. This new addition t o the American Chemical Society’s Monograph Series furnishes complete and up t o date information on the sources, recovery, refining, and uses of glycerin. All of the recent important developments in the field are fully discussed. The treatment of thechapters dealing with synthetic glycerols, purification by ion-exchange, standards and specifications, the physiological action of glycerin and its uses and application are of particular interest t o pharmacists and pharmaceutical chemists. Glycerin plays an unusually important role in the manufacture of liquid pharmaceutical preparations and no satisfactory substitute has been found. Because of the pharmaceutical importance of glycerin, this book should be of special interest to all members of the pharmaceutical profession. The book is completely documented with references to original publications dealing with all phases of glycerin production and applications. The printing and binding are of the type that has characterizea the American Chemical Society’s Series of Chemical Monographs and the book is provided with a complete and adequate index. Glycerol can be recommended highly as a source of information on any problem involving glycerin.
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Scientijic Terminology. By JOHN N. HOUGH. Rinehart and Co., Inc., New York, 1953. xiii 231 pp. 13.5 x 21 cm. Price $3.50. This book, according to the author, who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, is the outgrowth of many years’ teaching of students pursuing scientific curriculums. It is designed to combine into a single volume premedical and biological terms and nomenclature of Latin and Greek origin. The book is divided into thirteen chapters including the following headings; The Greek and
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Latin Alphabets; Formation of English Words: Roots, Stems, Combining Forms; Formation of English Words: Suffixes; Formation of English Words: Prefixes; General Scientitic Vocabularies; Latin Forms and Latin Grammar in Scientific Nomenclature; Medical and Pathological Terminology; Bacteriological XTomenclature; Pharmaceutical Terminology; Biological Terms; The Linnaean System of Biological h’omenclature; and the Reading and Writing of Latin Descriptions. The chapter on “Pharmaceutical Terminology” presents the essentials of Latin nomenclature required in present-day pharmaceutical practice. The chapter on “The Linnaean System of Biological Nomenclature” serves a useful purpose in presenting the most important parts of the system.
Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1952-1953. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 17 Bloomsbury Square London, W.C. 1, England, 1953. 305 pp. 14.5 x 22 cm. Price 12s. 6d. This valuable book was reviewed somewhat in detail [THISJOURNAL 51, 54(1952)]. The new edition follows the same design as the one which appeared in 1951. This Calendar has been revised where necessary and will continue t o serve its intended function of keeping pharmacists of Great Britain informed on matters related to the Pharmaceutical Society, its activities, its educational requirements, and the legal information with which pharmacists are required t o be familiar. Standard Values in Blood. ERRETTC. ALBRITTON, Editor. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on the Handbook of Biological Data, American Institute of Biological Sciences, the National Research Council. W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1952. x 199 pp. 21.5 x 28 cm. Price $4.50. This compilation includes the more basic established data on the composition and reactions of blood, of interest to scientists working in the various fields of biology, including the medical sciences. The compilation was made as the result of a contract between the National Research Council and the Wright Air Development Center and the actual work was done by the Committee on Handbook of Biological Data. The scope of the book and the subject of the tables can best be indicated by listing the several chapter titles. These are: Physical Properties; Coagulation Phenomena; Blood Groups; Erythrocytes and Hemoglobin ; Leukocytes; Blood and Bone Marrow Cells; Water, Carbohydrate, Lipid, Protein ; Amino Acids, Non-Protein Nitrogen; Phosphorus, Sulfur; Vitamins, Hormones, Enzymes; Electrolytes, Minerals, Gases, Acid-Base; Effects of Radiation, Storage; and Therapeutic Agents. Each division of the book contains a number of different tables relating to all types of data on blood.
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JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
terest to practicing pharmacists who require information concerning the drugs used in dental practice. I n addition t o information relating to drugs used by dentists, Accepted Dental Remedies also includes chapters on the provisions for the acceptance of products by the Council on Dental Therapeutics, dental formulas and tables useful in general dental practice, and on symptoms and treatment of acute poisoning. The book is provided with an index to distributors and an unusually well-designed general index. For pharmacists who are interested in supplying dentists with the preparations they use in the office, the chapter on formulas and tables is particularly significant.
Glycerol. Edited by CARL S. MINER and N. N. DALTON. American Chemical Society Monograph Series. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York. 1953. xiv 460 pp. 16 x 23.5 cm. I1lustrated. Price $12. This book is the result of a collaborative effort involving leading research scientists and is edited under the sponsorship of the Glycerine Producer’s Association of America. This new addition t o the American Chemical Society’s Monograph Series furnishes complete and up t o date information on the sources, recovery, refining, and uses of glycerin. All of the recent important developments in the field are fully discussed. The treatment of thechapters dealing with synthetic glycerols, purification by ion-exchange, standards and specifications, the physiological action of glycerin and its uses and application are of particular interest t o pharmacists and pharmaceutical chemists. Glycerin plays an unusually important role in the manufacture of liquid pharmaceutical preparations and no satisfactory substitute has been found. Because of the pharmaceutical importance of glycerin, this book should be of special interest to all members of the pharmaceutical profession. The book is completely documented with references to original publications dealing with all phases of glycerin production and applications. The printing and binding are of the type that has characterizea the American Chemical Society’s Series of Chemical Monographs and the book is provided with a complete and adequate index. Glycerol can be recommended highly as a source of information on any problem involving glycerin.
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Scientijic Terminology. By JOHN N. HOUGH. Rinehart and Co., Inc., New York, 1953. xiii 231 pp. 13.5 x 21 cm. Price $3.50. This book, according to the author, who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, is the outgrowth of many years’ teaching of students pursuing scientific curriculums. It is designed to combine into a single volume premedical and biological terms and nomenclature of Latin and Greek origin. The book is divided into thirteen chapters including the following headings; The Greek and
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Vol. XLII, NO. 5
Latin Alphabets; Formation of English Words: Roots, Stems, Combining Forms; Formation of English Words: Suffixes; Formation of English Words: Prefixes; General Scientitic Vocabularies; Latin Forms and Latin Grammar in Scientific Nomenclature; Medical and Pathological Terminology; Bacteriological XTomenclature; Pharmaceutical Terminology; Biological Terms; The Linnaean System of Biological h’omenclature; and the Reading and Writing of Latin Descriptions. The chapter on “Pharmaceutical Terminology” presents the essentials of Latin nomenclature required in present-day pharmaceutical practice. The chapter on “The Linnaean System of Biological Nomenclature” serves a useful purpose in presenting the most important parts of the system.
Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1952-1953. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 17 Bloomsbury Square London, W.C. 1, England, 1953. 305 pp. 14.5 x 22 cm. Price 12s. 6d. This valuable book was reviewed somewhat in detail [THISJOURNAL 51, 54(1952)]. The new edition follows the same design as the one which appeared in 1951. This Calendar has been revised where necessary and will continue t o serve its intended function of keeping pharmacists of Great Britain informed on matters related to the Pharmaceutical Society, its activities, its educational requirements, and the legal information with which pharmacists are required t o be familiar. Standard Values in Blood. ERRETTC. ALBRITTON, Editor. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on the Handbook of Biological Data, American Institute of Biological Sciences, the National Research Council. W. B. Saunders Co., West Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1952. x 199 pp. 21.5 x 28 cm. Price $4.50. This compilation includes the more basic established data on the composition and reactions of blood, of interest to scientists working in the various fields of biology, including the medical sciences. The compilation was made as the result of a contract between the National Research Council and the Wright Air Development Center and the actual work was done by the Committee on Handbook of Biological Data. The scope of the book and the subject of the tables can best be indicated by listing the several chapter titles. These are: Physical Properties; Coagulation Phenomena; Blood Groups; Erythrocytes and Hemoglobin ; Leukocytes; Blood and Bone Marrow Cells; Water, Carbohydrate, Lipid, Protein ; Amino Acids, Non-Protein Nitrogen; Phosphorus, Sulfur; Vitamins, Hormones, Enzymes; Electrolytes, Minerals, Gases, Acid-Base; Effects of Radiation, Storage; and Therapeutic Agents. Each division of the book contains a number of different tables relating to all types of data on blood.
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