(1) The Extra Pharmacopæia of Martindale and Westcott (2) Squire''s Pocket Companion to the British Pharmacopæia

Abstract

THE first volume of Martindale and West-cott''s Extra Pharmacopoeia contains all matters relating to the chemical and therapeutic properties of those “extra-pharmacopceial” chemicals and drugs which have attracted particular attention in the medical world. It includes details of their manufacture and modes of administration, their medicinal uses, pharmacy and solubilities, and references to current literature. This volume also contains, inter alia, a chapter on vaccines, supplying much new information, the section on organo-therapy, the supplementary list of drugs, and a list of the most potent antiseptics based on researches by the authors. Volume ii. contains the latest methods of assaying and testing chemicals and drugs, and those employed in clinical and bacteriological diagnosis and analysis. We find a full account of Abderhalden''s serum reaction, of a bacteriological examination of distilled and drinking waters, with a table of the analytical results obtained, and the conclusions founded on them, of the various methods for performing the Wassermann reaction for syphilis, and of the chief advances made in bacteriological technique. This volume will be found invaluable in the chemical, bacteriological, and pharmaceutical laboratory. Martindale''s Extra Pharmacopoeia should find a place on the library shelf of every medical practitioner and pharmacist. (1) The Extra Pharmacopæia of Martindale and Westcott. Revised by Dr. W. H. Martindale and W. W. Westcott. Sixteenth Edition. Vol. i. Pp. xl + 1113. Price 14s. net. Vol. ii. Pp. viii + 469. Price 7s. net. (London: H. K. Lewis, 1915.) (2) Squire''s Pocket Companion to the British Pharmacopæia. By P. W. Squire. Second edition. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net.