This book, the second in a series of monographs of the Institute for the Study of Analgesic and Sedative Drugs, is surely the most exhaustive critical bibliographic review of the salicylates that has ever been attempted. In his introduction to the book, Dr. Haggard says that the entire pertinent literature was reviewed in the original journals except for instances in which certain wartime issues of some foreign language journals were available in abstract only; however, the number of indicated abstract sources among the more than 4,000 references in the bibliography is extremely small.
The subject is presented under the following headings: historical; occurrence and properties of salicylates; the fate of salicylates in the body; pharmacology and toxicology of salicylates; therapeutic uses; salicylate poisoning, and the question of addiction or habituation. Of the 380 pages in the book, 193 are devoted to text, 174 to the bibliography and author index and