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ble position. Doctor Jackson's Experimental Pharmacology 

 should make friends among both instructors and students. It 

 will take a load of detail from the shoulders of the busy instructor 

 by means of the extended and careful descriptions of methods 

 and apparatus. 



A feature that is sure to appeal to the student is the very 

 generous use of line drawings to illustrate even the simplest 

 instruments and apparatus. For example, the tracheal can- 

 nula is illustated by three drawings, showing small, medium, and 

 large-sized cannulas. Such simple and well-known laboratory 

 equipment as the beaker, the evaporating dish, the battery jar, 

 the scalpel, and the medicine dropper are illustrated. Four 

 figures are given to show various sizes and styles of forceps. 

 Each illustrated set-up, either simple or elaborate, is fully sup- 

 plied with legends in large clear type. Parts of the more 

 complicated apparatus in many cases are depicted in additional 

 drawings. Colored plates are used to show innervation and blood 

 vessels of various animals. Numerous reproductions of kymo- 

 graph tracings show the student the kind of records that it 

 is possible to secure. The text that goes with all of these 

 illustrations is worthy of them. In simple, straightforward 

 language the author tells what to do, something of what is to 

 be looked for, and by frequent questions stimulates interest in 

 the subject. The author writes with a frank, friendly style 

 that is certain to win the confidence of the average student. See 

 the following from A Note to the Student (p. 31) : 



The student will often find it necessary to carry out his work with ap- 

 paratus entirely different from that described in the text and often perhaps 

 with an equipment which is exceedingly unsatisfactory. He should by no 

 means be discouraged thereby, for much of the most valuable experimental 

 work of all history has been performed with crude and unwieldy apparatus, 

 and often under most discouraging circumstances. To accomplish much 

 with little is a sure sign of ability and the medical student who approaches 

 the subject of experimental pharmacology at the present time will find 

 numerous opportunities to demonstrate his aptitude in this direction. 



Part one of this book begins with a Preliminary Exercise in 

 which the organization of the class into working groups and the 

 assignment of tables and apparatus are outlined, followed by 

 168 experiments. 



The general anesthetics, being of fundamental importance for the pro- 

 gress of the course, are taken up first. Forowing this is a group of drugs 

 chiefly characterized by their action on the central nervous system. After 

 these come a series of substances possessing specific actions on some one or 

 more parts of the involuntary nervous system. These are followed by 

 drugs which act mainly on the circulatory system, then follow the antipy- 



