Quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
bility, specific gravity, melting, congealing
Glenn L. Jenkins, Ph.D., and Andrew
G. DuMez, Ph.D., professors in the
School of Pharmacy, University of
Maryland. McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
Inc., New York City, 1931. xxiii +
408 pp. 14.5 X 21.5 cm. 68 Figs.
$3.50.
While conditions governing the practice
of pharmacy in the United States have re-
sulted iii its commercialization to a very
large extent, the pharmacist’s work is
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based upon a considerable scientific foun-
dation. There was a time when pharma-
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cists were almost the only working chem-
ists and they contributed a great deal to
the development of chemistry in the for-
mative period of that development, before
1850. These facts are exemplified in the
nature and content of the book under re-
view. Not all pharmacists practice ana-
lytical chemistry to the extent covered by
this book, but a thorough study of the
subject is a part of their training and a
considerable number of pharmacists ap-
proach the practice of analytical chemistry
through pharmacy.
Some idea of the pharmaceutical appli-
cations of quantitative analysis can be ob-
tained from a brief outline of the contents
of the book. After a statement of the
scope of the subject, the book is divided
into four parts. Under general chemical
methods used in quantitative analysis of
chemicals and drugs official in the United
States Pharmacopeia and the National
Formulary, we find general directions for
analytical work, a few exercises on gravi-
metric methods; a thorough treatment of
volumetric methods, including general
principles of volumetric analysis, alkali-
metry, acidimetry, precipitation, oxi-
dation-reduction methods; gasometric
methods and electrolytic methods. Under
physical methods for the quantitative
analysis of official chemicals and drugs, we
find methods for the determination of solu-
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and boiling points, refractive index, index
of rotation, and viscosity. Under special
methods used in quantitative analysis
of official chemicals and drugs, we find
methods for the determination of ash,
moisture, extractive matter, constants of
fats and oils, constituents of volatile oils,
and enzymes, and several chapters on
alkaloidal assay work. In the final sec-
tion on special non-official methods, we
find chapters on hydrogen-ion concentra-
tion, photometric methods, and ultimate
analysis.
Like many books which cover both the
theory and practice of a laboratory sub-
ject, this treatise combines laboratory
manual, textbook and reference book be-
tween its covers and not all colleges of
pharmacy would be able to allow in their
crowded curricula the time necessary to
cover the whole book.
The writer of this review is keenly aware
of the need of a good book on this subject
and a careful examination of this book
convinces us that Messrs. Jenkins and
DuMez have gone far to satisfy this need.
Theodore J. Bradley
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Boston, Massachusetts
The Quantum Theory. Fritz Reiche,
Principal of Physics at the University of
Breslau. Translated by H. S. Hat-
field, B.Sc., Ph.D., and Henry L.
Brose, M.A. Second edition, E. P.
Dutton and Company, Inc., New York
City, 1930. viii + 218 pp. 15 Figs.
12 X 18.5 cm. $2.10.
At the time of the appearance of its first
edition this little book was one of the
clearest and most useful guides available
for those who were making their first
acquaintance with the quantum theory.
The second edition which now appears
after a lapse of nine years is essentially the
older book with a few changes and an addi-
tional chapter which discusses briefly the