Martindale (Pharmacopoeia)
Martindale is a reference work, or pharmacopoeia , containing over 6,000 drugs and medicinal substances from around the world, including details on 161,000 proprietary preparations. In addition, it contains and evaluates 675 treatment concepts. It first appeared in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia . Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medical preparations, as well as pharmaceutical excipients , vitamins and dietary supplements , vaccines , radiopharmaceuticals , contrast media and diagnostics , medical gases, narcotic and recreational drugs, toxins, disinfectants and pesticides .
International usefulness
Martindale contains drugs and medicinal products of clinical interest throughout the world. It provides a useful source of information for patients traveling from abroad to identify their existing medication. It can show the other brand names under which a drug is available in other countries. Alternatively, the substance class can be determined so that a pharmacist or doctor is able to determine which alternative medicinal substance can be used. Monographs contain Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Anatomical-Therapeutic-Chemical Classification System (ATC), and the FDA (UNII) code to direct readers to other information systems.
arrangement
Martindale is divided into two main parts, followed by three broad indices :
- Monographs - Drugs and Additives
It lists 5,930 monographs, which are arranged in 49 chapters. They are based on clinical use with the appropriate evaluation of therapies. The monographs describe the nomenclature , properties and effects of the substance. A chapter on ancillary drugs and other substances includes 1,095 monographs on new drugs that are not otherwise classified, herbs and drugs that are no longer used clinically but are still of interest. Monographs on some toxins are also included.
- preparations
The list of preparations includes over 161,000 articles from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia , Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, USA and Venezuela.
- index
- General index with 172,000 entries of pharmaceutical terms, synonyms and chemical terms in 13 of the most common European languages.
- Directory of Manufacturers with 15,300 manufacturers.
- The Pharmaceutical Technical Dictionary contains 5,600 pharmaceutical terms in 13 European languages. A separate section in Cyrillic lists the specialist vocabulary in Russian and Ukrainian. The entries serve to understand product information, package inserts and dosage instructions from non-native speakers.
The digital version also contains 1,100 monographs on drugs, 46,000 articles on drugs and the names of 6,700 manufacturers.
Expenses (selection)
To date there are 37 editions of the Martindale. The 37th edition was published in April 2011.
- Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia . 1st Ed. 1883.
- Facsimile. Reprint 2008. ISBN 978-0-85369826-5
- The extra pharmacopoeia of Martindale and Westcott . Revised by W. Harrison Martindale and Wynn Westcott. 14th edition London 1910. Online edition
- Martindale. The Complete Drug Reference 36th Edition. Free Download pdf ebook . [1]
- Sean C. Sweetman (Ed.): Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia . 37th edition. London: Pharma Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-85369-933-0 .
- List of issues 1904-1932 [2]