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Materia Medica for Nurses.By L.Oakes and A.Bennett.PP.339.Price:7/6 net.Edinburgh:E.& S.Livingstone,1934.This little book is written in au easily readable way and the contents ofthe book are quite well arranged.With a due emphasis on the practicalmethods of handling and administration of drugs and certain remarks onweights and measures,doses,classification of medicinal preparations,etc.,thegreater portion of the book is given in one chapter to a description’ of"Com-mon Drags and Preparations".Mest of these are official in the British Phar-macopoeia 1932.As in the Pharmacopoeia,they are arranged alphabetically.Under each drug,the origin and the action are briefly indicated.Inasmuchas a great number of drugs are described in a limited space,many of themore important drugs are not discussed in sufficient detail to enable one toget a really intelligent knowledge of them from reading it alone.For thispurpose other books have to be consulted,However,for nursing studentswho have had some course in Materia Medica as well as for others who havefrequent use of the said Pharmacopoeia,this book will serve as a very usefulreference.