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."--Pref. 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.