This practical manual and standard reference work provides an authoritative source of analytical data for drugs and related substances. It is intended for scientists faced with the difficult problem of identifying an unknown drug in a pharmaceutical product, in a sample of tissue or body fluid from a living patient or in postmortem material. It is intended to be a useful requirement for all forensic and crime laboratories, toxicologists, clinical and analytical chemists, pathologists, poison information centres and clinical pharmacology departments.
Clarke’s Isolation and Identification of Drugs
This practical manual and standard reference work provides an authoritative source of analytical data for drugs and related substances. It is intended for scientists faced with the difficult problem of identifying an unknown drug in a pharmaceutical product, in a sample of tissue or body fluid from a living patient or in postmortem material. It is intended to be a useful requirement for all forensic and crime laboratories, toxicologists, clinical and analytical chemists, pathologists, poison information centres and clinical pharmacology departments.
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