A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

This is the fourth edition of a book that is rather comprehensive in scope, perhaps too comprehensive for students of nursing. On the other hand, it is not sufficiently complete for medical students or pharmacists. The book, however, is apparently intended for nurses and probably contains all the information on drugs that is needed for this objective. Since it is intended to present pharmacology and therapeutics, one wonders about the need for discussing, for example, the physiology and pathology of the circulatory system. This would seem best left for other books which are written to present such topics. However, this is a fault not uncommonly found in many volumes; there seems to be a tendency for books undergoing revision to increase in content, with much of the increase being somewhat irrelevant material if the original perspective of the book is kept in view. But how much criticism should be directed