Préparation des médicaments organiques

Abstract

ONE of the minor effects of the late war has been the increased production of books on technical chemistry in the allied countries. Dealing with the manufacture. of organic medicinal substances, hitherto very much a field of German activity, there recently appeared in this country a monograph by Barrowcliff and Carr, primarily concerned with industrial processes, plant, and patents. Prof. Fourneau, on the other hand, describes in the book under review the preparation of organic medicaments on a laboratory scale. Here are exact directions for all stages of the synthesis of phenacetine, stovaine, veronal, salvarsan, and many others, starting from common materials; for each step the yield is given, which in the author's experience can-be obtained. A student of organic chemistry who has worked through these will have acquired quite as much manipulative skill as he usually obtains from Cohen's “Practical Organic Chemistry” or Gattermann's “Kochbuch,” and he will have made more interesting substances.

Préparation des médicaments organiques.

Par Ernest Fourneau. Pp. viii + 350. (Paris: J. B. Bailliére et Fils, 1921). 25 francs.