Pocket Medical Dictionary

This dictionary contains a vast amount of valuable information. There are over 40,000 terms used in medicine and the allied sciences. The appendix contains complete tables of arteries, nerves, muscles, chemical elements, hormones, micro-organisms, prefixes and suffixes, phobias, signs and symbols, etc., also dose lists of drugs and incompatibilities and a veterinary dose table, both in English and metric measures. The reviewer would suggest that more attention should be paid to certain terms used in tropical medicine; e.g., the definition of kala-azar given in this book is ' An epidemic fever of Assam', which is obviously very unsatisfactory; and there is no mention of Napier's aldehyde test or Chopra's antimony test, though there are to be found, ' Froehde's reaction for