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Revised by Arthur Grollman and Donald Slaughter. Thirteenth edition. Price, $8.50. Pp. 868, with 74 illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1947.

Arch Intern Med. 1947;80(6):841-842.

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In its present form, this standard work, now in its thirteenth edition, continues to justify its reputation as a "... severely critical, rigorously scientific, general textbook written by an experimental pharmacologist." To this statement it should be added that the present editors contribute to the background of the book the further qualifications of a well known pharmacologist and internist.

More specifically, this book is recommended especially by its combination of reasonable size with completeness; it never leads the reader into purely speculative matters, and yet the entire field of modern pharmacology is amply covered. Emphasis is placed on the practical application of the subject to practical therapeutics, a fact which should appeal to the busy physician as well as to the harassed medical student. No attempt is made to include the exhaustive detail of a compendium.

An introductory section of forty pages is valuable for its concise discussion of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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