Any organic compound with a six-membered carbon ring (with two carbonyl groups in positions 1 and 4) that is ortho-fused to two benzene rings in positions 2 + 3 and 5 + 6

On the treatment of psoriasis by an ointment of chrysophanic acid / by Balmanno Squire.

New anticancer drugs : mitoxantrone and bisantrene / editors, Marcel Rozencweig, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Maurice J. Staquet.

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On the treatment of psoriasis by an ointment of chrysophanic acid / by Balmanno Squire.

New anticancer drugs : mitoxantrone and bisantrene / editors, Marcel Rozencweig, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Maurice J. Staquet.