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MANY of the drugs in common use as medicines are derived from the vegetable kingdom, and are to a great extent supplied to the public by the pharmacist, who has to guarantee their identity and freedom from adulteration. For this reason the pharmacist is required to undergo an adequate training in the science of botany, for which a number of excellent text-books have been published, and institutes exist in which lectures and instruction in practical work are available. Indeed, so large is the number of text-books that it is difficult to understand the necessity for an additional one unless it presents the subject in a manner specially adapted for a particular class of students. Prof. Rigg says that his aim has been to include not only those phases of botany that are of specific use to the pharmacist, but also to give a general view of the subject which will serve as a background for him in his professional work.
The Pharmacists' Botany.
By Dr. George B. Rigg. Pp. xvii + 303. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.) 16s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 115, 296 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115296a0
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