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The mitotic cycle. By Arthur Hughes. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1952. viii + 232 pp. Illustrated. 16 × 25.5 cm. Price $6
Arith,metic of Pharmacy. By CHARLESH. STOCK-Scientific and Technical A bbreviations, Signs and ING and ELMON L. CA~ALIXE.11. Van Nostrand Symbols. 2nd ed. By 0. T. ZIMMBRMAN and Co., Inc., New York, 1952. xii 148 pp. IRVXN LAVINE. Industrial Research Servicc, 23.5 x 16 cm. Price $2.75. Dover, N. H., 1949. xiv 541 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. Price in U.S., $8; Foreign, $9. This book is based on the original text by A. B. Stevens, the seventh cdition of which was revised This book was designed with two objcctives in by Stocking and Cataline. In the preparation of mind. One of these objectives was to make availtheir Arithmetic of Pharmacy, the authors have able in one convenient volume the principal abrewritten and rearranged a considerable portion of breviations, signs, and symbols used in a number of the material, but a t the samc timc have preserved scientific and technical fields. Another aim was to the general patterii established in earlier editions of encourage greater uniformity in the use of abbreviaStevens’ book. Descriptive matter and illustrations tions, signs, and symbols. These objectivcs are have been used in the first five chapters to a greater difficult to achicve, but certainly an excelletit start extent than heretofore, and this should serve to toward them has been made. Most of the sections clarify many of the procedures discussed. An should be of interest to research workcrs in the entirely new chapter treating calculations especially pharmaceutical ficld bcrause thc interests of this related to the compounding of prescriptions has group have so many raiuifications. The abbreviabeen added. The sections on certain basic arith- tions used in mathematics, statistics, chemistry, metical operations have been collected and appear physics, medicine, botany, and zoology appear to be in an appendix. This material should prove useful standard ones, and from time to time many abbrevito students who have forgotten the fundamental ations from these various classifications are used in operations of elementary arithmetic. This book scientific pharmaceutical journals. Quite a number has enjoyed many years of popularity as a teaching of the abbreviations presented in tabular form arc tool and as a textbook for beginning students in taken from recognized sources. The abbreviations used in chemistry, for example, are taken from pharmacy. There is good reason to believe that the new edition of the Arithmetic of Yharnzacy will Chemical Abstracts. I t is truly a very great conmaintain the position attained by its predeccssors. venience t o have nearly all scicntific abbreviations The binding and printing of the book are of good and symbols in one book, and this one can be quality and the format has been modernized and recommended as a useful reference to anyone premade more attractive and rcadablc than the previous paring or editing scientific papers in the pharmaceutical field. editions.
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The Mitotic Cycle. By ARTHUR HUGHES. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1952. viii 232 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 25.5 cm. Pricc 16. In the foreword to this book, thc author eniphasizes that it is not a textbook of cytology, but that it has been written for readers possessing a knowledge of the elements of that subject. The intention of the book has been to review rcccnt progress in thc study of the dividing cell in which there has becri a decided increase in interest during rcccnt years. I n the first chapter the nucleic acids are discussed, because thc author believes “. . , there should be given some account of those macromolecules the changes in which a t a lower order of magnitude are now known to relate t o the visible events within the cell, and are believed in some way t o initiate and govern the course of the whole complex of biological events which results in the production of two cells from one.” The scope of the book is indicated by the titles of t h e other five chapters which are: The Interphase Cell aud the Cytoplasm ; The Interphase h~uclcus; Cells in Division ; Experinien&l Analysis ; and Outlook. The book is well documented with refercnccs to the original literature at the end of each chapter m d it is provided with at1 author iiidcx aiid a subjcct index.
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The National Formulary 1952. Published by the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 1952. 196 pp. 11 x 17 ctn. Price 4s.6d. (postage 3 d ) . This pocket-size handbook was first published in 1949 by a Joint Formulary Committee of the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Socicty of Grcat Britain as a prescribcrs’ formulary. The second edition includes enough additional rnatcrial to iricrcasc thc numbcr of pagcs by more than fifty per cent. The first section contains “Notes for Prescribcrs” and gives a concise review of the first-aid treatrncnt of poisoning, and discussions of therdpcutic classes of drugs. A pharmacological classification of drugs is also given. The General Section of formulas groups the preparations nccording to pharmaceutical types, e.g., applications, capsules, etc. The names a t the beginning of the subdivisions are given in English with the Latin in smaller type, but the names of the individual preparations are given first in Latin with the English name in a secondary role. Practically all the formulas are for products in the B. P. or B. P. C. A special section is devoted to prcparations for infants. All the n~crcurialpreparations that werc included i n this section iii the 1949 cditioii of the British N. IT. wcrc rlc.lctcd i n thc 1!W2 ctlitioti.
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The Mitotic Cycle. By ARTHUR HUGHES. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1952. viii 232 pp. Illustrated. 16 x 25.5 cm. Pricc 16. In the foreword to this book, thc author eniphasizes that it is not a textbook of cytology, but that it has been written for readers possessing a knowledge of the elements of that subject. The intention of the book has been to review rcccnt progress in thc study of the dividing cell in which there has becri a decided increase in interest during rcccnt years. I n the first chapter the nucleic acids are discussed, because thc author believes “. . , there should be given some account of those macromolecules the changes in which a t a lower order of magnitude are now known to relate t o the visible events within the cell, and are believed in some way t o initiate and govern the course of the whole complex of biological events which results in the production of two cells from one.” The scope of the book is indicated by the titles of t h e other five chapters which are: The Interphase Cell aud the Cytoplasm ; The Interphase h~uclcus; Cells in Division ; Experinien&l Analysis ; and Outlook. The book is well documented with refercnccs to the original literature at the end of each chapter m d it is provided with at1 author iiidcx aiid a subjcct index.
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The National Formulary 1952. Published by the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 1952. 196 pp. 11 x 17 ctn. Price 4s.6d. (postage 3 d ) . This pocket-size handbook was first published in 1949 by a Joint Formulary Committee of the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Socicty of Grcat Britain as a prescribcrs’ formulary. The second edition includes enough additional rnatcrial to iricrcasc thc numbcr of pagcs by more than fifty per cent. The first section contains “Notes for Prescribcrs” and gives a concise review of the first-aid treatrncnt of poisoning, and discussions of therdpcutic classes of drugs. A pharmacological classification of drugs is also given. The General Section of formulas groups the preparations nccording to pharmaceutical types, e.g., applications, capsules, etc. The names a t the beginning of the subdivisions are given in English with the Latin in smaller type, but the names of the individual preparations are given first in Latin with the English name in a secondary role. Practically all the formulas are for products in the B. P. or B. P. C. A special section is devoted to prcparations for infants. All the n~crcurialpreparations that werc included i n this section iii the 1949 cditioii of the British N. IT. wcrc rlc.lctcd i n thc 1!W2 ctlitioti.