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The preparation of medical literature. By Louise Montgomery Cross. J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1959. xx + 451 pp. 15 × 22.5 cm. Price $10
Book Notices Chemical Analysis. Vol. 10. The Chemical Analysis of Air Pollutants. By MORRISB. JACOBS. Interscience Publishers, Inc.. 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1. N. Y.. 1960. xviii 430 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $13.50. This volume of a series of monographs on analytical chemistry and its applications presents detailed methods for the determination of the kind and amount of air contaminants. The presentation for each method follows the pattern: 1. General methods for sampling with procedures for the determination of air and gas volume, quantity, and velocity. 2. Analysis of the settled particulate matter and also the suspended particulate matter. 3. Methods for the analysis of gaseous and vapor contaminants of the atmosphere, including radiochemical methods. Appended are tables of analytical data relating to suspended particulate matter in the air, sootfall, gaseous contaminants, and motor vehicle exhaust gas composition. A subject index is included.
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Soviet Research i n Pharmaceutical Chemiptry. Part I, Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Part 11, Medicinal Chemistry; Part 111, Pharmacognosy. English translation. Consultants Bureau, Inc., 227 West 17th St., New York 11, N. Y., 1959. 603 pp. 21 X 27 cm. Paperbound. Price Part I, $12; Part 11, $45; Part 111, $10; Complete collection $60. These additions to the Chemistry Collection Series include translations of selected reports that have appeared in Soviet publications. The pharmaceutical chemistry part includes nine papers on ion exchange and its applications, particularly relating to the behavior of ion exchange resins with antibiotics. Fourteen additional miscellaneous reports are included. Part I1 includes thirteen papers on anti-infective compounds, eight papers on steroids and related compounds, thirty-five papers on heterocyclic compounds, and twenty miscellaneous reports. Part 111, entitled Pharmacognosy, includes seventeen papers on plant alkaloids. one oii pectic substances of sunflower, and one on corelborin P.
Lymphocytes and Mast Cells. By MARGARETA. KELSALLand EDWARDD. CRABB. The Wdliams & Wilkins Co., 428 East Preston St., Baltimore 2, Md., 1959. xvi 399 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $8. This book is a comprehensive treatise on two cells: Lymphocyte-a specialized cell which synthesizes, stores, and transports nucleoprotein for maintenance, growth, or secretion by other cells; and Mast cell-chief significance is ability to synthesize, store, and release histamine and heparin, but its production of mucopolysaccharide and its possible relation with serotonin is also discussed. A bibliography of 1,142 references cited in the text and a subject index are appended.
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Organic Reactions. Vol. 10. Edited by ROGER ADAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Ave.. New York 16, N. Y.. 1959. vii 563 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $12. This volume of “Organic Reactions,” the tenth since the series was started in 1942, continues the comprehensive treatment of selected subjects. The ninth volume of the series was reviewed in THIS JOURNAL,47, 155( 1958). The present volume covers: The coupling of diazonium salts with aliphatic carbon atoms; the Japp-Klingemann reaction; and a very complete treatment of The Michael reaction. This latter chapter covers 379 pages and includes 1,045 references. The excellent style of presentation developed for this series is continued. A subject index for Volume 10 and cumulative author and chapter heading indexes are appended.
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The Preparation o/ Medicill Literature. By LOUISE MONTGOMERY CROSS.J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1959. xx 451 pp. 15 X 22.5 cm. Price $10. This book is designed to be used as a desk reference for details on practical techniques in the preparation of medical reports, articles, and books; in which physicians and allied scientists communicate clinical experience and scientific investigation to Fermente-Hormone- Vitamine. Band I. Fermcnte. their colleagues. Writers for publication in any 3rd ed. By ROBERT AMMON and WILHELM scientific field will find this book useful. Chemists DIRSCHERL.Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, should note that abbreviations for names of jourGermay, 1959. Agents in U. S. and Canada, nals are from the “Quarterly Cumulative Index Intercontinental Medical Book Co., 381 Fourth Medicus” and the “Current List of Medical LiteraAve, New York 16, N. Y. xx 564 pp. Price ture.” As of January 1960, these two reference $22.85, Subscription price: $19.45 publications were replaced by “Index Medicus” This third edition, in three volumes, i s the first (new series) published monthly the the National revision since 1943. Volume 1. on ferments or Library of Medicine, and annual cumulations of the index will be published by AMA. The journal enzymes, is, of necessity. a completely rewritten text. It attempts to relate significant relation- abbreviations in the new “Index Medicus” follow, ships between biological catalysis and enzymes. with some variations, those used in “Quarterly This is developed with regard to individual and Cumulative Index Medicus.” Writers of material group enzyme activities. The book is intended for for publication in the chemical fields should rely on use by biochemists, mediciiial chemists, and others the abbreviations recommended by Chemical in related chemical fields. Abstrads.
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Soviet Research i n Pharmaceutical Chemiptry. Part I, Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Part 11, Medicinal Chemistry; Part 111, Pharmacognosy. English translation. Consultants Bureau, Inc., 227 West 17th St., New York 11, N. Y., 1959. 603 pp. 21 X 27 cm. Paperbound. Price Part I, $12; Part 11, $45; Part 111, $10; Complete collection $60. These additions to the Chemistry Collection Series include translations of selected reports that have appeared in Soviet publications. The pharmaceutical chemistry part includes nine papers on ion exchange and its applications, particularly relating to the behavior of ion exchange resins with antibiotics. Fourteen additional miscellaneous reports are included. Part I1 includes thirteen papers on anti-infective compounds, eight papers on steroids and related compounds, thirty-five papers on heterocyclic compounds, and twenty miscellaneous reports. Part 111, entitled Pharmacognosy, includes seventeen papers on plant alkaloids. one oii pectic substances of sunflower, and one on corelborin P.
Lymphocytes and Mast Cells. By MARGARETA. KELSALLand EDWARDD. CRABB. The Wdliams & Wilkins Co., 428 East Preston St., Baltimore 2, Md., 1959. xvi 399 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $8. This book is a comprehensive treatise on two cells: Lymphocyte-a specialized cell which synthesizes, stores, and transports nucleoprotein for maintenance, growth, or secretion by other cells; and Mast cell-chief significance is ability to synthesize, store, and release histamine and heparin, but its production of mucopolysaccharide and its possible relation with serotonin is also discussed. A bibliography of 1,142 references cited in the text and a subject index are appended.
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Organic Reactions. Vol. 10. Edited by ROGER ADAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Ave.. New York 16, N. Y.. 1959. vii 563 pp. 15 X 23 cm. Price $12. This volume of “Organic Reactions,” the tenth since the series was started in 1942, continues the comprehensive treatment of selected subjects. The ninth volume of the series was reviewed in THIS JOURNAL,47, 155( 1958). The present volume covers: The coupling of diazonium salts with aliphatic carbon atoms; the Japp-Klingemann reaction; and a very complete treatment of The Michael reaction. This latter chapter covers 379 pages and includes 1,045 references. The excellent style of presentation developed for this series is continued. A subject index for Volume 10 and cumulative author and chapter heading indexes are appended.
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The Preparation o/ Medicill Literature. By LOUISE MONTGOMERY CROSS.J. B. Lippincott Co., East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1959. xx 451 pp. 15 X 22.5 cm. Price $10. This book is designed to be used as a desk reference for details on practical techniques in the preparation of medical reports, articles, and books; in which physicians and allied scientists communicate clinical experience and scientific investigation to Fermente-Hormone- Vitamine. Band I. Fermcnte. their colleagues. Writers for publication in any 3rd ed. By ROBERT AMMON and WILHELM scientific field will find this book useful. Chemists DIRSCHERL.Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, should note that abbreviations for names of jourGermay, 1959. Agents in U. S. and Canada, nals are from the “Quarterly Cumulative Index Intercontinental Medical Book Co., 381 Fourth Medicus” and the “Current List of Medical LiteraAve, New York 16, N. Y. xx 564 pp. Price ture.” As of January 1960, these two reference $22.85, Subscription price: $19.45 publications were replaced by “Index Medicus” This third edition, in three volumes, i s the first (new series) published monthly the the National revision since 1943. Volume 1. on ferments or Library of Medicine, and annual cumulations of the index will be published by AMA. The journal enzymes, is, of necessity. a completely rewritten text. It attempts to relate significant relation- abbreviations in the new “Index Medicus” follow, ships between biological catalysis and enzymes. with some variations, those used in “Quarterly This is developed with regard to individual and Cumulative Index Medicus.” Writers of material group enzyme activities. The book is intended for for publication in the chemical fields should rely on use by biochemists, mediciiial chemists, and others the abbreviations recommended by Chemical in related chemical fields. Abstrads.
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