RT Journal
T1 VAlutazione biologica dei medicamenti
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 24
VO 112
IS 25
SP 2628
OP 2628
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800250052029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800250052029
AB It is perfectly correct, as stated by Dr. Recordati in his introducation to this book, that "We need not only in Italy but elsewhere a manual which contains practical descriptions in detail of the methods for the bio-assay of medicinal preparations." This is especially true of a book on the subject so thoroughly abreast of the times as this one. It is most interesting to note that the bio-assay of drugs, which until recent years was the chief concern of books on this subject, occupies merely one fourth of this book. The rest is taken up with the bio-assay of hormones, vitamins and antiserums. Very valuable also is the "general part," which includes a discussion of equipment for bio-assay, general directions for it, and a brief exposition of statistical methods as applied to it. Our Italian confrères are to be congratulated on the possession of this book, the acquisition of