REVIEW. 



Pharmacology: The Action and Uses of Drugs- By Maurice Vejux Tyrode, 

 M. D. Cloth. Pp. ix + 255. Price, $1.50 net. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's 

 Son & Co., 1908. 



It is to be presumed that this work is for the use of students of 

 medicine and that consequently the author has endeavored to reduce the 

 limits of the book so that it can be used for ready reference. In so 

 doing he has omitted altogether the experimental side of pharmacology 

 and so we are brought back to former times, when the knowledge of 

 pharmacology possessed by beginning practitioners was based on the 

 more or less positive statements of the text-books they had read and the 

 lectures they had heard. It is our belief that the text-books of pharma- 

 cology for beginners should be so constructed as to include experimental 

 work and at least general laboratory directions, that they should handle 

 but few drugs, and these well chosen and that the topic of materia 

 medica had best be reserved for a separate volume. 



It is to be regretted, also, that the author has not included, so far as 

 expedient and necessary, structural chemical formula?. The mere name 

 of a drug, even to those thoroughly conversant with the subject of 

 pharmacology, often conveys no meaning, where the chemical formula 

 does. 



This book, however, is a short compendium which doubtless will find 

 its place in the class room, although the student should be encouraged 

 to do much collateral reading in connection with it.. 



P. C. P. 



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