Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 1998. NLM Call no. The Pharmacokinetic Basis of Therapeutics 1 2. The Pharmacodynamic Basis of Therapeutics 9 3. Each entry gives the name of the drug, its classification, dosage, indications, mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetic properties, side effects, and signs and symptoms of overdosage.
Entries are concise and clearly written.
Abundant diagrams and tables provide summaries of pharmacological properties and collective treatment information. For example, a table on Asthma Treatment outlines newer adrenergic drugs and the corticosteroids. This text is one volume of a series that will form a set of medical encyclopedias. It should prove to be a useful reference tool for the science collections of public and academic libraries. It is not meant to be used for prescribing information and is not a substitute for more detailed and regularly updated reference sources such as Drug Facts and Comparisons , the Merck Index , and the USP Drug Information series.