Materia Medica.-By Arnold E. ColuE. London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. This small volume, in the Students' Aids Series, is an attempt to provide students of Materia Medica with the means of memorising the essentials required by the examining bodies of the Conjoint Board in England, Conjoint Board in Scotland, Conjoint Board in Ireland, Society of Apothecaries of London and Apothecaries Hall of...

The second edition of this book will be welcome to members of the nursing profession. It is a small book covering aboiit 100 pages, written in an easy and readable style. The author has used considerable judgement in selecting only drugs in common daily use with their important preparations, doses, actions, and therapeutic uses. Materia medica is a vast subject, growing. every day in volume, an...

The metric system having been employed throughout the 1014 edition of the H. P., this little book, as a transitional provision, gives the dosage in both old and new terms. The little book is accurate and full of information. The appendices are very useful especially the dose-tables giving the equivalent doses in the metric and the old system, thus a single dose of Tinct. Opii is given as 12 to ...

This is another of Saunder's Question-Compen?Is and is written in question form. It begins with definitions, description of weights and measures, prescription writing, and the influences which modify the effects of the medicines and their administration. The rest of the book, comprising 292 pages, is taken up with the materia medica and therapeutics of various drugs. The classification is thera...

yet comprehensive text-book and work of reference on Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and a range of cognate subjects. Under head of each drug will be found clear and concise descriptions of its properties and physiological action. In addition chapters will be found on " medical," Latin, pharmacy, table of doses, antidotes and incompatibilities. The volume is based on the United States Pharmacopoe...

I i!s rItecen1t (fourtli) edition1 of Dr),. N(wnS popular little '' Aids' w%ill, the reviewer feels, h)e as wel(-lI received as have 1)10n its pre((IvcessorsI. 'I'lhe general layout of the book1 is similar-, there being a simiiply presente(l yet valuable initroductionl, this being followed by the main body of the book which is divided into two parts. Part one is further subdivided into two part...

China is one of the first countries to use marine materia medica for treating diseases. Ancient books on Chinese herbology, such as Shennong Bencaojing (Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica), Xinxiu Bencao (Newly Revised Materia Medica) and Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), have detailed more than 110 marine herbs and thousands of marine herbal formulas (including those for Chinese ...