Merck'sIndex: An encyclopedia for the chemist, pharmacist and physician, giving the names and synonyms; source, origin, or mode of manufacture; chemical formulas and molecular weights; physical characteristics; melting and boiling points, solubilities; specific gravities; medicinal action; therapeutic uses; ordinary and maximum doses; incompatibilities; antidotes; special cautions; hints on keeping and handling, etc., of the chemicals and drugs used in chemistry, medicine and the arts together with an appendix containing: reactions of the more important alkaloids and glucosides; characteristic reactions of acids, bases, metals, and salts; table of atomic weights; thermometric equivalents; specific gravity tables; metric conversion tables; and abbreviations: Ed. 4, 593 pp., Rahway, N. J., Merck and Co., Inc., 1930