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Book Review: New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screening and Biomonitoring

Book Review: New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screening and Biomonitoring BOOK REVIEWS 619 is not mentioned by Hare; that had Fleming NEW MICROBIOTESTS FOR had some pure penicillin, there were patients ROUTINE TOXICITY SCREENING he could have tried it on; that mice would have AND BIOMONITORING been the natural choice of test animal, because Edited by Guido Persoone, Colin Janssen & of their small body size; and that the only ref- Wim De Coen erences to the use of a rabbit are from anti- 550 pp., £69.00, EUR 105.00 vivisectionist literature, I doubt whether this is Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, true. The Greeks go on to claim that “He later NY, USA, 2000 had a very sick patient, and since he had noth- ISBN 0-306-46406-3 ing else to try, administered penicillin. The rest is history.” In fact, Florey gave Fleming the This is a substantial volume representing the purified penicillin. The vital part played by Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chain and Florey in isolating it, proving it by New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screen- using mice, and developing it, is largely ing and Biomonitoring, held on 1–3 June 1998 ignored. at Brno in the Czech Republic. The initiative for There are numerous other comments that organising http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Book Review: New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screening and Biomonitoring

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 29 (5): 2 – Sep 1, 2001

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SAGE
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© 2001 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
ISSN
0261-1929
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2632-3559
DOI
10.1177/026119290102900502
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BOOK REVIEWS 619 is not mentioned by Hare; that had Fleming NEW MICROBIOTESTS FOR had some pure penicillin, there were patients ROUTINE TOXICITY SCREENING he could have tried it on; that mice would have AND BIOMONITORING been the natural choice of test animal, because Edited by Guido Persoone, Colin Janssen & of their small body size; and that the only ref- Wim De Coen erences to the use of a rabbit are from anti- 550 pp., £69.00, EUR 105.00 vivisectionist literature, I doubt whether this is Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, true. The Greeks go on to claim that “He later NY, USA, 2000 had a very sick patient, and since he had noth- ISBN 0-306-46406-3 ing else to try, administered penicillin. The rest is history.” In fact, Florey gave Fleming the This is a substantial volume representing the purified penicillin. The vital part played by Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chain and Florey in isolating it, proving it by New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screen- using mice, and developing it, is largely ing and Biomonitoring, held on 1–3 June 1998 ignored. at Brno in the Czech Republic. The initiative for There are numerous other comments that organising

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Published: Sep 1, 2001

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