MESHKOVSKY, PROF. M. D., Lekarstvennye Sredstva( Medical Preparations. Size 5½ × 8 in., 2 volumes of 708 pp., and 462 pp., respectively, compact pages, Bibliography, Index( Russian and Latin), 6 editions, 100,000 copies, price R4.50( U. S. $ 5) complete. Publisher: Medicina, Moscow. 1967.
A handbook for doctors, this is the latest and most complete work on the subject. In each preparation the dose is on drugs and herbal medicines, with brief characteristic chemical formulae of clinical amounts in effect and side-effect. The most significant part is the bibliographical material. The author reviews a total of 1,424 medical publications, mostly monographs and clinical reports, from 1960 – 6. This sixth edition of the book is revised and improved. Herbalists will find the latest information on herbal material administered in clinical doses only.“ Folk Medicine” is not mentioned. Being designed as a handbook for doctors, on a clinical and prescriptive level, this book is too technical for general reading, but the information is exceptionally good.
NOSAL, M. A., NOSAL, I. M., DROBOTKA, V. G.( Editor), Likarski Roslini I Sposobi IH Zastosuvania V Narodi( Ukrainian Medical Plants and Folk Medicine). Size 5 × 8 in., 300 pp., illustrations, Index( Ukrainian and Latin), 150,000 copies, price 87 kopecks( U. S. $ 0.95). Publisher: Zdorovie, Kiev. Second edition, 1964.
One of many books on Ukrainian Folk Medicine and medical botanics, with a detailed description of 143 plants growing either wild or under cultivation in Ukraine. The book is instructive for biologists, doctors and all interested in botanics in general. Many valuable formulae and recipes as used in Folk Medicine are officially approved for general use. With practical information on collecting and growing herbs, this book places tangible help within the reach of persons knowing and using the rich source of field and garden plants around them.
REDACTIONNAYA KOLLEGIA BELIKOFF, I. F., GRUSHEVITSKY, I. V. KOSMAKOVA, B. E., Material K Izucheniu Jenshenia and Limonnika( Volume IV: Material on Research of Ginseng and Limonnic). Collective work, size 7 × l0½ in., 248 pp., illustrations, Bibliography, 1,500 copies, price R10( U. S. $ 11). Publisher: Academy of Science, Leningrad. 1960. This is a limited edition, there being only 1,500 copies; in this field the usual for Soviet publications is 100,000 to 250,000 copies. The monographs, totalling twenty-nine, cover a wide field on Ginseng( Panax-Aralia family) and Chinese Limonnik( Scizandra chinensis-Turez). The book covers field, clinical and laboratory researches, supported by 186 monographic bibliographies. Numerous illustrations, statistical data, classified clinical and laboratory findings, tablet preparations, schemes, plus photographic documentary data. For today’ s analysis about the ancient use of Ginseng, this scientific research is a collective work of reliable information for students of herbalogy. Panax canadensis has as much extensive attention as Japanese Ginseng.
ROJKO, Y. D., Yagodi I IH Lechebnye Svoistva( Medical Properties of Berries). Size 5 × 8 in., 60 pp., illustrations, Bibliography, 104,000 copies, price 8 kopecks( U. S. $ 0.09). Publisher: Kiev Knijnaya Fabrica, Kiev. 1966.
The idea of berries as food and medicine has stimulated many publications giving chemical analyses of the most popular domestic and wild berries. Very good information on cultivating the wild species for domestic, medical and nutritional health.
TUROVA, M. A., A. D.( Editor-in-chief), Lekarstvennye Sredstava Iz Rastenyi( Medical-Herbal Preparations). A collective work, size 6 × 9 in., 316 pp., diagrams and tables, Bibliography, 20,000 copies, price R1.15( U. S. $ 1.26). Publisher: Medicinskaya Literatura, Moscow. 1962.
One of the monographs we would like to have in English, as there is so much valuable material on the latest research by the seventy-five scientists who prepared this volume All articles are subdivided into narrow topics, as teams of two to eight scientists prepared independent articles on their own laboratory and clinical cases. Containing a rich and valuable bilbiography of 199