Book Reviews

Böttcher Helmuth M. , Wonder Drugs: A History of Antibiotics, J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1964. (Antibiotics, chlorophyll, coumarin)

Burn Harold , Drugs, Medicines and Man, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1962 (Ergot, antihistamines, anesthetics, tranquilizers, insulin, hormones, and sulfonamides)

Calder Ritchie , Medicine and Man: The Story of the Art and Science of Healing, The New American Library, Signet Books, New York, 1958 (Quinine, tranquilizers, hormones, vitamins, anesthetics, and antiseptics)

Calder Ritchie , The Life Savers, Pan Books Ltd., London, 1964 (Sulfonamides, antibiotics, vitamins, cortisone, antihistamines, polio vaccine, and sex hormones)

Carson Gerald , One for a Man, Two for a Horse; a Pictorial History, Grave and Comic on Patent Medicines, Double-day & Co., New York, 1961 (Patent medicines)

Cooley Donald G. , The Science Book of Modern Medicines, Pocket Books, Inc., New York, 1963 (Insulin, serums, vaccines and antitoxins, sulfa drugs, vitamins, and antibiotics)

de Kruif Paul , Microbe Hunters, Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1926 (Antiseptics, rabies and anthrax vaccine, anti-malaria drugs, and Salvarsan)

de Kruif Paul , Hunger Fighters, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1928 (Vitamins)

de Ropp Robert S. , Drugs and The Mind, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1957 (also Grove Press, New York, 1961) (Marihuana, mescaline, narcotics, LSD, and tranquilizers)

Duran-Reynals M. L. , The Fever Bark Tree, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1946 (Quinine)

Ebin David (editor), The Drug Experience, Grove Press, New York, 1965 (Anthology of articles on narcotics, marihuana, LSD, and peyote)

Finch Bernard , Passport to Paradise, Philosophical Library, New York, 1960 (Narcotics, marihuana, and alcohol)

Fox Ruth , Milestones of Medicine, Random House, New York, 1950 (Diphtheria vaccine, insulin, penicillin, radium, and vitamins)

Fuller Henry C. , The Story of Drugs, Century Co., New York, 1922 (Botanicals, cosmetics, vaccines, narcotics, and vitamins)

Galdston Iago , Behind the Sulfa Drugs; a Short History of Chemotherapy, D. Appleton-Century Co., New York, 1943 (Sulfonamides)

Haggard Howard W. , Devils, Drugs and Doctors, Harper, 1929; and Pocket Books, New York, 1946 (Antiseptics, vaccines and antitoxins, quinine and anesthetics)

Holbrook Steward H. , The Golden Age of Quackery, Macmillan, New York, 1959 (Patent medicines)

Kavaler Lucy , Mushrooms, Molds and Miracles, John Day Co., New York, 1965 (Antibiotics, LSD)

Kreig Margaret B. , Green Medicine, Rand McNally, Chicago, 1964 (Quinine, digitalis, curare, chaulmoogra, rauwolfia, LSD, and periwinkle)

Ludovici L. J. , Fleming: Discoverer of Penicillin, Andrew Dakers, Ltd., London, 1952 (Penicillin)

Maisel Albert Q. , The Hormone Quest, Random House, New York, 1965 (Corticosteroids, oral contraceptives, and other hormones)

Margerson David , Medicine Today, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1961 (Elementary book on antibiotics, vaccines, hormones, and anesthetics)

Marriott Henry J. L. , Medical Milestones, Williams & Wilkins, Inc., Baltimore, 1952 (Antibiotics, vitamin B12, cortisone and ACTH, anti-motion sickness drugs, and anti-coagulants)

Marti-Ibanez Felix , Men, Molds and History, MD Publications, New York, 1958 (Antibiotics)

Mathison Richard , The Eternal Search, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1958 (Drugs of animal, vegetable, and mineral origin, poisons, purges, quack medicines, cosmetics, and narcotics)

Ratcliff J. D. , Yellow Magic, Random House, New York, 1945 (Penicillin)

Reinfeld Fred , Miracle Drugs and the New Age of Medicine, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1959 (Antibiotics, hormones, vaccines, and synthetic drugs)

Silverman Milton , Magic in a Bottle, Macmillan Co., New York, 1951 (Morphine, quinine, digitalis, cocaine, aspirin, barbiturates, vitamins, hormones, and sulfonamides)

Sokoloff Boris , Miracle Drugs, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1954 (Antibiotics and sulfonamides)

Taylor Norman , Narcotics: Nature's Dangerous Gifts, Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1963 (Marihuana, opium, coca, mescaline, and “five exotic plants”)

Welch Henry , and Marti-Ibanex Felix , Antibiotic Saga, Medical Encyclopedia, New York, 1960 (Antibiotics)

Williams Henry Smith , Drugs Against Men, McBride, New York, 1935, (Narcotics and alcohol)

Wilson John Rowan , Margin of Safety, Collins, London, 1963 (Polio vaccine)

Young James Harvey , The Toadstool Millionaires; a Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1961 (Patent medicines)