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DISCOVERIES of the last few decades have turned the minds of the medical world from preoccupation with diagnosis to the study of therapeutics and have greatly increased the importance of pharmacology. The Germans were the first to realize the possibilities of this subject, and at the end of the last century they led the world in the introduction of new remedies, but they had been overtaken by other countries before 1939. The output of papers on the action of new drugs is increasing rapidly but these papers tend to be scattered widely in all sorts of journals. There are not enough pharmacological journals, and there will be a widespread welcome for the Acta pharmacologica et toxicologica, the first numbers of which appeared in 1945. The new journal is published under the aegis of the Pharmacological Society of Copenhagen. It is edited by Prof. K. O. Møller, with the collaboration of pharmacologists in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Papers may be written in English, French or German, but all those in the first two parts are in English. The journal is attractively produced, and the editors are to be congratulated on the care which they have devoted to practically all the small points which make a journal convenient to use. The only obvious criticism is that the pages were uncut. It is hoped that this small fault can be remedied.
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Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica . Nature 157, 258 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157258c0
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