© 2002 Occupational and Environmental Medicine
BOOK REVIEW
Antidotes
Edited by: Flanagan and Jones (Pp 325; £39.99) 2001. Andover: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 748 40965 3
Keywords: antidote
This very welcome book on antidotes by Flanagan and Jones from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust is a paperback, but fairly comprehensive text, on antidotes. It includes a chapter on chemical warfare agents by myself and Bob Maynard, on which I will not comment, except to say that, sadly, this chapter may prove a selling point at this time.
Chapter 1 is a general introduction, with fascinating sections on the mechanism of action of antidotes and their history and development from ancient times. I had not realised how much time nineteenth century doctors spent on painters' colic (lead poisoning). Also in this chapter is a list of obsolete antidotes.
Thereafter the book assumes a more systematic character, starting with the treatment of metal poisoning. However, as shown by the section on lead poisoning, the book is not a simple compendium of antidotes (as the title suggests) and the treatment
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