Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews

Customer Reviews

• BEST! Pharm book around  Dec 18, 2001 (40 of 43 found this helpful)

  I used this book to study for my second year pharm class, and it has to be one of the best medical texts I have used so fair. It is an excellent balance between not enough info, aka ridiculously simple, and sweet jesus Katzung! It is concise, well organized, and has helpful pictures. I can't stress enough that if you are in the market for a pharm book THIS IS THE ONE!!!!!!!!! You will thank me later as you get your H in pharm!

• Beautiful illustrations but factual errors  Jul 29, 2007 (17 of 17 found this helpful)

  Please be advised that though you may find the illustrations helpful and entertaining, some of descriptive pharmacology contains fatal errors. For example, on page 119:
  
  "Cocaine can induce seizures as well as fatal cardiac arrythmias. IV diazepam and propanolol may be required to control cocaine-induced seizures and cardiac arrythmias."
  
  Propanolol is CONTRAINDICATED in cocaine-induced cardiac arrythmias because of coronary artery vasoconstriction. Responsible health-care providers need to know this.

• Good, but not enough to be your sole Pharm source  Jun 12, 2004 (19 of 20 found this helpful)

  I used this text to prepair for the boards, having already read Katzung's Pharmacology in class. This is a concise book, uniform, with many illustrations (many of them however could easily be omitted, since they simply present drug adverse effects graphically), and does a good job in selecting the prototypical drugs from each class. It could be a lot more complete in the section on CNS pharmacology, and on drugs for heart failure and hypertension (for example, it is stated that beta-blockers are contraindicated in heart failure, whereas it is well-known that this kind of drugs is essential for reducing mortality and hospitalizations in these patients). I particularly liked the section on antimicrobial chemotherapy, another high-yield topic for the boards. I have a positive overall impression of the book, but I found myself consulting Katzung more than often; also, it does not compare to the clearly superior Lippincott title on Biochemistry (keep in mind however than biochemistry lends itself much more easily to illustrated presentations than pharmacology). It will help you, but in order to top the exams, you will need an additional resource.

• Excellent Pharmacology Review  Nov 17, 2000 (14 of 14 found this helpful)

  This book is really superb. I've been using it since the second medical year. One of the best features of this book is its black-and-white illustrations which make your life easy. The info are presented in an outline format for quick reading. It's concise and excellent for review (and for the first time) study! It contains some questions at the end of each chapter. Actually, this is what you need to know for examination purposes.

• THE BEST PHARMACOLOGY BOOK IN THE WORLD  Sep 30, 1997 (14 of 14 found this helpful)

  If you are looking for an easy to read, well illustrated book for your pharmacology studies,THEN STOP LOOKING!!!

  This is the book for the dynamic reader who likes:
  Short and concise chapters.
  Selfassesment questions by the end of every topic
  Perfect illustrations
  Maximum input with minimum of timeloss

  If less reading and lots of quick learning sounds good to your ears, then don't look any further. Mark my words, this is the best "PHARMACOLOGY-TEACHER" in my town and yours.