Abstract
THE attention which has been directed during recent years to the determination of the potency of drugs for which no method of chemical analysis is at present available has necessitated both the introduction of new, or the adaptation of older, methods of biological assay as well as the preparation of stable standards of reference in terms of which the activity of the samples tested may be expressed. The importance of the accurate standardisation of a drug was shown when insulin was introduced into clinical therapeutics, and the work of the Health Section of the League of Nations and the passage of the Therapeutic Substances Act (1925) have directed further general attention to this subject.
Methods of Biological Assay.
By Dr. J. H. Burn. (Oxford Medical Publications.) Pp. xvii + 126. (London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Methods of Biological Assay . Nature 122, 471–472 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122471b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122471b0
