The Merck index : an encyclopedia of chemicals and drugs / Martha Windholz, editor ; Susan Budavari, associate editor ; Lorraine Y. Stroumtsos, assistant editor ; Margaret Noether Fertig, assistant editor.

Title & Author:

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Publication:

Rahway, N.J. : Merck & Co., 1976.

Description:

1835 pages in various pagings : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
First ed. (1889) published under title: Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts; 2d ed. under title: Merck's 1896 index; 3d ed. under title: Merck's 1907 index; 4th ed. (1930), under title: Merck's index; 6th-7th ed. (1952-60), under title: The Merck index of chemicals and drugs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This work "has a strong medicinal element, but it is essentially an organic chemical work with the inclusion of useful inorganic substances and a separate section on organic name reactions" (from preface). Includes approximately 10,000 descriptions of individual substances, over 4,500 structural formulas, and about 42,000 names of chemicals and drugs. There are miscellaneous tables for first aid in poisoning, location of poison control centers, code letters used by various countries for experimental substances, Greek and Russian alphabets, English and metric weights and measures, and alchemical symbols used in biology and botany. Includes a formula index and a detailed cross index of alternate names.

ISBN:

0911910263
9780911910261

Subject:

Drugs Encyclopedias.
Chemicals Encyclopedias.
Drugs Dictionaries.
Chemicals Dictionaries.
Drugs.
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Médicaments Dictionnaires anglais.
Produits chimiques Dictionnaires anglais.
Médicaments Encyclopédies.
Produits chimiques Encyclopédies.
Médicaments.
Chemicals
Préparations pharmaceutiques Dictionnaires comme sujet.
Arzneimittel
Chemikalie
Droge
Verzeichnis
Medication.
Farmacologia (Dic Enciclopedias)
Quimica (Dic Enciclopedias)
Médicaments Encyclopédies et dictionnaires.
Drogues Encyclopédies et dictionnaires.

Form/genre:

Dictionary
Encyclopedia
Verzeichnis.
Dictionaries.
Technical dictionaries.
encyclopedias.
dictionaries.
Encyclopedias
Enzyklopädie.
Wörterbuch.
Encyclopédies.
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Windholz, Martha.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3716
Call No.: ID A932 RS51.M4 1976; ID:87-B11909
Status: Available

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