Modern Drugs in General Practice
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must necessarily be out of date before it is completed. The same remark applies, with perhaps less force, to a book on modern drugs; this "however is a short book and the authoress has managed to keep pretty well up to date with her subject. An exception is the omission of any details regarding sulphathiazole, a drug that has now been in use, in America at any rate, for some time, and is proving to be one of the most valuable of the sulphanilamide (sensu lato) group of drugs. The conception of this book is a good one and does not need the apology with which the preface opens; war or no war, patients still require treatment. The execution is also masterly (if this is the right adverb in the circumstances). The compilation of the data from various sources has been carried out very carefully and presented concisely, and it makes an ideal book of references for the practitioner. The subject-matter is arranged more or less on a pharmacological basis. Proprietary, as well as nonproprietary, drugs are included, but, as the writer has observed (twice) in the preface, of the former only those whose reputations have been established by reports in medical journals have been included. The book constitutes a valuable addition to the
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