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W. E. DIXON'S well-known text-book has long enjoyed a wide popularity. It is almost the only text-book of pharmacology in the English language of suitable length for those students who regard pharmacology merely as one of the obstacles on the road to a medical qualification. It has always contained a spice of unorthodox and entertaining information which has delighted its readers, and sometimes puzzled their instructors. The seventh edition appeared in 1929, and is now out of date. The eighth edition, prepared by Dr. W. A. M. Smart, represents a drastic revision. The number of figures has been reduced from 97 to 79, but the figure which appears to portray inhibitory nerves to voluntary muscle has been retained.
A Manual of Pharmacology
By the late Dr. Walter E. Dixon. Revised by W. A. M. Smart. Eighth edition. Pp. viii + 483. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1936.) 18s. net.
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A Manual of Pharmacology. Nature 139, 737 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139737a0
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