MedicineBiochemistryPharmacologyBiochemical PharmacologyClinical PharmacologyGeneral PharmacologyAnthelmintic PharmacologyCholesterol MetabolismDrug MonographsAtherosclerosis RiskBiological Activity FeaturesDrug CompendiaHistory Of PharmacologyStereochemical Structure - Activity RelationshipTherapeutic Drug Monographs
This series consists of one volume yearly, each containing 7 to 9 monographs. Its aim is to supply reviews by experts of certain specific fields of drug research, designed for clinical investigators, pharmacologists, and biochemists. Most physicians will be handicapped in reading these 2 volumes as the majority of the articles are in German. Volume 1 contains reviews in English of cholesterol atherosclerosis and stereochemistry and biological activity. The first is already somewhat out of date and surprisingly, wastes several pages listing numerous "shotgun" prescriptions from countries such as Egypt and Cuba. The description of the relation between stereochemistry and biological activity is both original and scholarly but too abstruse for many practitioners. Monographs in German include first, a detailed discussion of ion-exchange substances in biology, pharmacy, and medicine. The reason for including 2 articles on anthelminthics is not obvious, especially when one of these devotes so much space to