The dynamics of virus and rickettsial infections. By Frank W. Hartman, Frank L. Horsfall, Jr., and John G. Kidd, Editors. The Blakiston Company, Inc., New York, 1954. xii 4- 461 pp. 111. 15.5 × 23.5 cm Price $7.50

The dynamics of virus and rickettsial infections. By Frank W. Hartman, Frank L. Horsfall, Jr., and John G. Kidd, Editors. The Blakiston Company, Inc., New York, 1954. xii 4- 461 pp. 111. 15.5 × 23.5 cm Price $7.50

Book Notices Antibiotics Annual, 1953-54. Proceedings of the Symposium on Antibiotics. U. S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare. Food and Drug Adm...

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Book Notices Antibiotics Annual, 1953-54. Proceedings of the Symposium on Antibiotics. U. S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare. Food and Drug Administration Medical Encyclopedia, Inc., 1953. 632 pp 18 x 26.5 cm. Price $8. During the past several years the Division of Antibiotics of the Food and Drug Administration has sponsored a n annual symposium designed t o orient the scientific worker in the current status of antibiotic therapy and development. The 1953-54 Symposium was sponsored jointly by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Division of Antibiotics of the Food and Drug Administration, with the collaboration of the journal Antibiotics and Chemotherapy and was held in Washington, D. C., on October 28,29, and 30, 1953. During the three-day program more than 100 papers were presented on recent advancement in the development of new antibiotics and new knowledge concerning their applications as therapeutic agents and animal food supplements. All of the papers presented during the Symposium have been collected, published, and made available for practically an up-to-the-minute survey on developments in the antibiotic field during the preceding year. The editors and the publisher are t o be congratulated upon the excellent service rendered in making the papers available in a relatively short time after the Symposium. The book is provided with an adequate subject index which greatly facilitates its use when one is interested only in a limited number of the subjects covered by the Symposium papers.

with rickettsiae. All of the papers are documented with references t o the original literature, but unfortunately the book is not provided with an index. To the specialist in the fields covered this is probably of minor importance, but to a reader with only a general interest in the subject, an index would be valuable.

Grundlagen der Pharmakologie fiir A potheker, Chemiker und Biologen. By K . W. MERZ 5th rev. ed. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., Stuttgart, 1953. 371 pp. 89 illustrations. Price D M 28 50 (about $7). This is a very well-known text in Germany and is now in its fifth edition. It is written for students of pharmacy, chemistry, and biology. The author is well qualified to write such a book since he holds a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and an M.D. degree. It is a n established fact that today's pharmacy student has to be thoroughly familiar with drug action. This book presents to the student an introduction t o pharmacology in a clear, concise form. The pharmacy curriculum in Germany does not require the student to have a fundamental knowledge of physiology or anatomy. It is, therefore, very important that a textbook will convey a clear understanding of pharmacologic action on the basis of physiological function. This is accomplished by illustrations and excellent drawings which supplement the text. Emphasis is placed on chemical composition. A final chapter on toxicology is of particular importance in this age of industrialization. This book is a valuable addition not only for the The Dynamics of Virus and Rickettsia1 Infections. By FRANK W. HARTMAN, FRANKL. HORSFALL, pharmacist, but also for the chemist who, in his Jr., and JOHN G. KIDD,Editors. The Blakiston search for new synthetic remedies, must be familiar Company, Inc., New York, 1954. xii 4- 461 with drug action. pp. 111. 15.5 x 23.5 cm Price $7.50. This volume includes papers and discussions which Introduction to Phrmacy. 3rd ed. HENRY M. BURLAGE,Editor. Co-authors: Burt, Lee, and were presented to an International Symposium on Rising. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, the Dynamics of Virus and Rickettsial Infections, 1954. 710 pp. 15 x 21.5 cm. Price $9.50. held in Detroit, Mich., in October, 1953. The By the time a book has passed through two objectives of the Symposium were to provide for an exchange of ideas and information between workers revisions within a 10-year period, most educators in different areas of the virus and rickettsial fields. are familiar with its scope and purpose. The first The subjects discussed were grouped into five major edition of Introduction to Pharmacy was published in 1944. It was originally designed to introduce categories : Mechanisms of Virus and Rickettsial Infections, which included twelve papers; Ecology the student of pharmacy to the professional subjects and Pathogenesis of Virus and Rickettsial Infections, he will pursue throughout his academic program with six papers; Mechanisms of Immunity in Virus and to orient him in regard to the professional and and Rickettsial Infections, with six papers; Labora- commercial aspects, requirements, and opportunities tory Diagnosis of Virus and Rickettsial Infections, in pharmacy. The design of the book has not been with five papers; and Approaches to Prophylaxis changed, but the third edition has been thoroughly and Therapy of Virus and Rickettsial Infections, revised t o conform with changes in U. S. P. XIV with six papers. The several papers reproduced in and N. F. IX, and t o present recent physical and the five main categories present much useful in- chemical aspects of modern pharmaceutical techformation of a general nature relating t o virus and nology by the addition of much new material on rickettsial organisms. Twenty of the papers are solutions and physical chemical methods of operaconcerned mainly with studies on viruses infecting tion. The book also includes a number of new illusman or animals, seven with viruses infecting bac- trations of apparatus and new references for colteria, three with viruses infecting plants, and three laborative readings.

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