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(1) DESPITE the systematic basis of organic chemistry, it is always difficult to initiate students in the study of the subject, and especially to get them to grasp the general principles of the science as a precedent to further study. The majority of elementary text-books are burdened with far too much preliminary detail of an abstract character, so far as the beginner is concerned, before he is brought into touch with the materials and methods of the science, with the result that he finds his studies lacking in interest and objective. This defect is very successfully avoided in Prof. Cohen's book. It bears, in every respect, the mark of the experienced teacher, and is most suitably adapted to the requirements of first-year medical students and of senior science students in schools, for whom it is designed.
(1) A Class-book of Organic Chemistry.
By Prof. J. B. Cohen. Pp. viii + 344. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
(2) Practical Chemistry for Medical Students.
By Dr. A. C. Cumming. With preface by Prof. J. Walker. Second edition. Pp. 8 + 165. (Edinburgh: James Thin, 1917.)
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K., C. (1) A Class-book of Organic Chemistry (2) Practical Chemistry for Medical Students. Nature 100, 221 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100221a0
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