Abstract
THIS book bases a four years' course of quantitative analysis for students of pharmacy on the various methods of assay described in the United States Pharmacopœia and National Formulary. It may be questioned whether such a course, even for pharmaceutical students, will give the groundwork which is desirable, seeing that the methods are intended only for standardised articles of a high degree of purity. So far as it goes, however, the course is judiciously arranged; the typical processes are, in general, adequately explained and questions and problems are set at the conclusion of the exercises. The details of some of the processes should have been criticised for the edification of the student, who may be left with the impression that it is usual, in the electrolytic assay of mercury, to employ a cathode weighing 700–800 gm. when the expected increase in weight is about 0.3 gm., or that in the determination of nitrogen by the Kjeldahl process there is no likelihood of loss of ammonia by the addition of strong soda solution to the diluted acid solution in an open flask.
Quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry: containing Theory and Practice of Quantitative Analysis applied to Pharmacy.
By Prof. Glenn L. Jenkins Prof. Andrew G. DuMez. (McGraw-Hill Publications in Pharmacy.) Pp. xxiii + 408. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1931.) 17s. 6d. net.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
NICHOLLS, J. Chemistry. Nature 128, 958 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128958a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128958a0