(1) Bentleyand Driver's Text-Book of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2) Drugs and Galenicals: their Quantitative Analysis

Abstract

(1) THE pharmaceutical student has, as a rule, only a short period of intensive and continuous study in which to acquire that somewhat heterogeneous collection of knowledge about the inorganic chemicals, synthetic organic substances and components of natural drugs, which constitutes the pharmaceutical chemistry of an examination syllabus. A large part of this knowledge is concerned with the standards of quality specified for the drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia, and the methods by which deviations from these standards may be detected. It is reasonable, therefore, that the authors of this text-book should begin with a series of chapters dealing generally with methods for the characterization and analysis of substances used in medicine, and they have spared no pains to secure clarity and simplicity in their statement and explanation of the principles on which these methods are based.

(1) Bentleyand Driver's Text-Book of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Revised by Dr. John Edmund Driver. Third edition. Pp. ix + 624. (London: Oxford University Press, 1937.) 6s. net.

(2) Drugs and Galenicals: their Quantitative Analysis

By Dr. D. C. Garratt. Pp. xiv + 422. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1937.) 25s. net.