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THE number of drugs in use at the present day runs into thousands, and each of them is a component of one or more, often many more, “medicines.” The materials used as drugs include such diverse products as plants the constituents of which are unknown, elementary substances such as colloidal copper and sulphur, and complex but well-defined compounds like “salvarsan.” To prepare a comprehensive account of the analysis of drugs and medicines is therefore a difficult task, and one may doubt Mr. Fuller's wisdom, but not his courage, in tackling it.
The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines.
By H. C. Fuller. Pp. ix + 1072. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920.) 55s. net.
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H., T. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines . Nature 109, 509–510 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109509a0
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