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THIS book is well known to all British pharmacists and medical men, and the frequency with which new editions have to be issued is sufficient indication of its trustworthiness as a work of reference to the enormous number of drugs, chemicals, and ingenious combinations of these now used in medicine. It is more than four years since the last edition was published. In the interval, many advances have been made in the treatment of disease, and the authors have shown their usual skill in selecting from the pharmaceutical and medical literature that accumulates during such a period those items that are likely to be of permanent value. While full attention is given in the new edition to such important subjects as the use of insulin in diabetes, the treatment of syphilis with preparations of bismuth, new synthetic remedies for trypanosomiasis, and new methods of dealing with leprosy, the numerous small advances in medicine and pharmacy by which constant progress of a less striking character is being made, are not neglected.
The Extra Pharmacopia of Martindale and Westcott.
Revised by Dr. W. Harrison Martindale and W. Wynn Westcott. Eighteenth edition, in 2 vols. Vol. 1. Pp. xxxviii + 1163. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 27s. 6d. net.
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The Extra Pharmacopia of Martindale and Westcott . Nature 115, 869 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115869d0
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