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The advent of a bibliography of extant publications in the field 

 of venomology at once becomes a distinctive asset to the sciences 

 of pharmacology and immuno-chemistry, to most of the allied 

 basic sciences, and to clinical medicine as well. 



The authors of this compendium have exhausted available ref- 

 erences to include 4,157 titles covering the modern period of scien- 

 tific investigation since 1863. 



In the scope of applied pharmacodynamics alone, the debt in- 

 curred is noteworthy, in that here is now at the command of re- 

 searchers an authentic short cut to existing knowledge : a variable 

 list extending from alleviation of the pain of cardio-vascular dis- 

 ease to the saving of lives — human and animal — by antivenin im- 

 provements. More and more the specificity of certain processed 

 animal venoms for varied disease entities is being brought to light. 



Finally, and probably of more importance, is the incentive to 

 serious investigation in venoms of animal origin that undoubtedly 

 will stem from the appearance of this work. 



Lucien Y. Dyrenforth, M.D. 

 H. Marshall Taylor, M.D. 



Jacksonville, Florida 

 April 1, 19 hS 



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