Kraemer's Sientific and Applied Pharmacognosy (2) Handbook of Pharmacognosy

Abstract

(1)DURING the past few years the study of crude drugs derived from the vegetable and animal kingdoms has attracted an ever-increasing amount of attention, and the interest in this branch of knowledge has shown a remarkable revival. Medicinal plant farms, where the changes effected in the constituents of medicinal plants grown under varying conditions can be studied, have been established in increasing number. In that respect Great Britain has shown a tendency to lag behind, due probably to a lack of that public support which is freely given on the Continent. Striking evidence of the interest taken in this subject abroad is shown by the success attending the conferences recently held in Budapest and in Venice by the international association for the promotion of the production of medicinal plants. The authors of “Kraemer's Pharmacognosy” have every justification for the statement they make in the preface that “pharmacognosy must play an increasingly important part in the future of pharmacy and medicine”.

Kraemer's Sientific and Applied Pharmacognosy.

Third edition, thoroughly revised by the following named Editorial Committee: Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Edwin L. Newcomb; Co-Editors, Prof. Leasure K. Darbaker, Prof. Earl B. Fischer, Prof. Edmund N. Gathercoal. Pp. xxxvii + 893 (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1928.) 37s. 6d. net.

(2) Handbook of Pharmacognosy.

By Dr. Otto A. Wall. Revised by Prof. Leo Suppan. Fifth edition. Pp. 472. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1928.) 21s. net.