A Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy, intended for the Use of Students of Pharmacy, as a Reference Booh for Pharmacists, and as a Handbook for Food and Drug Analysts

Abstract

ALTHOUGH in English text-books botany is not usually combined with pharmacognosy, it is undeniable that such a combination possesses for the student of the latter science the distinct advantage that much overlapping may be avoided, and that, by selecting medicinal plants to illustrate the botanical portion, the student, while studying botany, insensibly acquires a considerable amount of information concerning economically important plants. This advantage has been utilised by Prof. Kraemer to the fullest extent; indeed, it might be considered by some to have been carried rather too far, for the section on the “Classification of Angiosperms “deals with medicinal plants only. The botanical portion of the work is well written and abundantly illustrated; it is characterised by the comparatively small amount of attention given to the lower forms of vegetable life, the algae and fungi occupying only thirty-six pages, whereas in text-books of botany these two groups are usually treated in detail that is often considered unnecessary for the pharmacognosist.

A Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy, intended for the Use of Students of Pharmacy, as a Reference Booh for Pharmacists, and as a Handbook for Food and Drug Analysts.

By Prof. H. Kraemer. Fourth revised and enlarged edition. Pp. viii + 888. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., n.d.) Price 15s. net.