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The Merck Manuals (outside the U.S. and Canada: The MSD Manuals; Chinese: 默沙东诊疗手册; pinyin: Mòshādōng Zhěnliáo Shǒucè) are medical references published by the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada), that cover a wide range of medical topics, including disorders, tests, diagnoses, and drugs.
The first edition of The Merck Manual was published in 1899 by Merck & Co., Inc. for physicians and pharmacists and was titled Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica. [6] [7] The 192 page book which sold for US $1.00, was divided into three sections, Part I ("Materia Medica") was an alphabetical listing of all known compounds thought to be of therapeutic value with uses and doses; Part II ...
Free Medical Journals - index of 3,630 free medical journals: freemedicaljournals.com; MedlinePlus; PubMed - index of over 22 million items in the biomedical field: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed; Merck Manual; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) BioMed Central; DrugBank; Drug Information Portal; CDC; Global Health Observatory (GHO)
The Merck Manuals; Macer Floridus; A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System; Manual of Medical Diagnostics and Healthcare; Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference; Medical Ethics (book) List of medical textbooks; Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy; Merck Veterinary Manual; Miller's Anesthesia; The Modern Home Physician; Musculoskeletal ...
Medical encyclopedias such as Medline Plus, WebMD, and the Merck Manual are examples of new forms of the medical encyclopedias as information retrieval becomes simpler. Some online encyclopedias are medical wikis , which use wiki software to write the information collaboratively.
Merck & Co. traces its origins to its former German parent company Merck Group, which was established by the Merck family in 1668 when Friedrich Jacob Merck purchased a drug store in Darmstadt. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In 1827, Merck Group evolved from a pharmacy to a drug manufacturer company with the commercial manufacture of morphine . [ 29 ]
The Canon of Medicine (c. 1000) - Described by Sir William Osler as a "medical bible" and "the most famous medical textbook ever written". [19] The Canon of Medicine introduced the concept of a syndrome as an aid to diagnosis, and it laid out an essential framework for a clinical trial. [20]
The Free Dictionary ... Pulmonary embolism at Merck Manual online: ... Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing. (2012).