illustrations, Index( Russian and Latin), Bibliography, 20,000 copies, price 37 kopecks( U. S. $ 0.41). Publisher: Gosudarstevennoe Izdatelstvo Medicinskoy Literaturi, Moscow. 1963.
This particular herbal booklet is for the Moscow region only. Numerous publications of this kind are popular throughout the Soviet Union for general guidance and practical use to regional research institutes, universities and State publishing houses. Information is given on the geography, agriculture, botany, State purchasing agents-in general, herbal know-how from the soil to the market or home including Folk Medicine and poisonous plants. Bibliography covers a total of thirty-two works, from 1925 – 54, books and monographs of medical plants of the Moscow region, or closely-related literature. The local publication is a concentrated source of neighbourhood herbal knowledge. Despite our bountiful Materia Medica and botanical gardens, this type of publication does not exist on the North American continent.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
Herb Collector’ s Manual and Marketing Guide. Size 9 × 6 in., 70 pp. Publisher: J. Kelly, Looneyville, West Virginia, U. S. A.
Very good practical material on herbal descriptions, collecting, processing, marketing, Agro- Technic, soil, etc. Published once a year on 1st January. Our copy is from 1958. Not in libraries but with some effort book and health food stores can obtain. National Health Federation Bulletin. Official Organization of the National Health Federation,
Monrovia, California, U. S. A. Published monthly. The American crusade for better health is active nationally on the latest information in this field. Novie Knigi USSR( New Book of U. S. S. R.). Size 6 × 8½ in., 80 pp.( average). Publisher:
Mejunarodyna Kniga, Moscow.
As in all economic and social activities in the U. S. S. R., publishing matter is centralized. This is a bulletin on a few books currently being published. A weekly review of eighteen to twenty different sections of Russian books( occasionally Ukrainian, English, French, German, Spanish, etc.) Object of the subscription is to keep readers up to date in their own field-medicine, biology, Herbalogy, botany, pharmacology, etc. Each book review lists title and character with annotations, so that before ordering a book one is well informed as to its content.
The Layman Speaks— A Homoeopathic Digest. Editor: B. Green. Size 9 × 6 in., 40 pp.( average), Bibliography, price $ 4 per year, $ 4.40 foreign. Publisher: American Foundation for Homoeopathy, Inc., 2726 Quebec Street N. W. Washington, D. C. 20008.
Monthly publication reviewing rich and well-informed material, including homoeopathic use of herbalism.
The Provoker. Written and Published by John H. Tobe, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Size 8 × 10½ win.; 32 pp. illustrations. Circulation 200,000. Price £ 3.50 yearly. Published quarterly.
J. H. Tobe, the most aggressive promoter of Health Food and Herbs. Emphasis on food mostly, distributing books and publications on Health and Natural Medicine. J. Tobe has devoted a lot of his time to travelling around the world and then using new material and information to promote his ideas through The Provoker, his books, lectures, special bulletins, films and slides. Many statements very provocative and controversial, but people read with great interest.
The World Forum, Incorporating Health from Herbs. Published by H. H. Greaves, Ltd., London, England. Size 7 × 10 in.; The Forum 44 pp. + Health from Herbs 12 pp., illustrations. Editor of The Forum, J. D. Magnab; Health from Herbs, Frederick A. Dawes, M. N. I. M. H. Quarterly. Price £ 1 yearly.