New and Nonofficial Remedies, 1929. Containing Descriptions of the Articles Which Stand Accepted by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association on January 1, 1929.

The value of this book to the practicing physician or to any one having to do with the use of unofficial drugs can scarcely be overestimated. It contains descriptions of those new preparations which, after painstaking examination, the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry has found worthy of recognition and of trial by physicians. The descriptions are conveniently classified, and each classification is preceded by a comprehensive discussion of the therapeutic uses of the medicaments involved. Revised carefully each year, both as to the preparations described and as to the descriptions and discussions themselves, each successive edition of New and Nonofficial Remedies is essentially a new book and represents for its date the latest knowledge concerning therapy with new and unofficial drugs. Each year are added the descriptions of preparations accepted by the Council since the first of the preceding year. From the book are deleted the descriptions of articles which