Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals

Read it before every doctor interaction

The photo of the book shows a sealed package including the online subscription. The book received did not contain the online subscription. I returned the book, since the value to me was in the subscription. This book seller often shows pictures of the book and the book received is not what is shown.I rated this 5 so that it would be visible. It should really be a 1.

Not much to say about this quite indispensable volume. It's a bit out of date, some of the newest drugs, for example, are not included in it, but given the price of a brand new volume, this does fine to update my older volume fairly well. This is my fourth edition of this reference, which I try to update every other edition (sometimes years apart each).

I decided years ago to look up new drugs as they appeared in ads on TV, to discover what they are and who all makes them in several companies and with different "ask your doctor" names. OMG what a shock! This MERCK INDEX fills with highlights and underlines, especially about the poisonous levels. (Everything, even water, can kill at some level.) This book is far more useful than the many other lists of drugs. AND, it's fun to see the molecular structures and wonder how little is really known about the human body. You can even try to build some of the simpler ones with ball-and-stick models and marvel at how two almost-look-alikes behave so differently in us. Surely this book is worth the big price. (Maybe now I need to look myself up in the new DSM-5 as a chemistry mental patient.)

Great reference work. A warning to would be purchasers: contrary to what is printed in the description, the free subscription to The Merck Index Online is for thirty days only, not one year. The one-year offer expired May, 2014. Apparently, there is no provision for an individual to purchase an online subscription upon expiration of the free 30 days. Their recommendation: pay $20 for each monograph or find a library that has a subscription.

I've been referring to the MERCK INDEX since 1960. It sure beats Beilstein for quick superficial information on the materials of interest. The scope of this work seems to go up one plateau every decade; for example in the breadth of the appendices., and inclusion of the names of the new drugs.

The latest issue of this essential chemist's companion, but with little in the way of updates and newer compounds. The publisher needs to assemble a group of chemists to make major revisions soon, or this will become a historical reference rather than a current reference.

Thank you I needed this for an environmental chemistry class and my instructor recommend get this index.

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Awesomeness! Obligatory in all chemistry libraries...

sicuramente un must per un chimico, anche se avrei preferito una descrizione più schematica delle proprietà come il pKa, la solubilità ecc, che devono essere cercate tra le righe e non risaltano subito all'occhio.

Excelente material para maestros y estudiantes, llego antes de la fecha indicada en perfecto estado, compra 100% que cumple con lo esperado

Bereits ohne das Buch aufzuschlagen, sieht man den Zuwachs an Seiten im Vergleich zur 14. Auflage. Inbegriffen ist ein 1 Jahres-Online-Zugang. Über den Inhalt müssen nicht mehr viele Worte verloren werden werden. Die Interessenten wissen, was sie erwartet.