More like 'Merck's manual of the materia medica : a ready-reference pocket book for the physician or surgeon containing names of the chemical and drugs usual in modern medical practice, with their chief synonyms , physical form and appearance, solubilities, percentage strengths and physiological effects, therapeutic uses, modes of administration and application, regular and maximum dosage, incompatibles, antidoes, precautionary requirements, etc. : a table for therapeutic indications, with paragraphs on bedside diagnosis, and a comprehensive collection of prescription formulas, embracing also the newer remedies of established merit : a classification of medicaments : and miscellany, comprising poisoning and its treatment : a comprehensive dose table of chemicals, drugs, and galenicals : urinalysis and examination of urinary deposits : approximate metric equivalents and various useul tables, etc.'