Recent Advances in Chemotherapy.

Abstract

This is an interesting history of chemotherapeutic agents and their effects on certain diseases. Each chapter is a digest of the results obtained on one disease, and each is followed by references to the original literature, making the volume bibliographically valuable. Much of the text is concerned with diseases due to protozoa, spirochetes and helminths, because most of the chemotherapeutic work has been along this line. Many of the diseases mentioned are much commoner in other countries than in the United States. The book is really a review of the literature and not a critical evaluation of the status of the various drugs. Conspicuous by its absence is the lack of excellent opinions by some American authors, including the many reports of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry. This may be due to the fact that the book emanates from the Burroughs Wellcome employees and naturally would be flavored with