PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY MERCK & Co., NEW YORK
General Scope of Contents.
[N.B.—This "General Scope" is not to be understood to state certain standing divisions or chapter heads for the contents of the journal; but rather to denote the character of the various classes of matter to be treated of.]
"ORIGINAL RESEARCH"—comprising Papers, Lectures, or Reports by reputable investigators on the results of experiments and collective trials, regarding the physiological actions and curative properties of Drugs, and the manner of their therapeutic Employment.
"ADVANCE IN MATERIA MEDICA"—being Condensed Reports, freshly compiled each month, on the latest advances in Medicinal Agents and in Methods of applying them—embracing the discoveries of New Remedies, and of New Uses of the older ones.
"THE JOURNALS"—a collection of noteworthy expressions of Medical Opinion on recent questions relating to Drugs and their Uses, as culled from the latest American and foreign journals.
"THE PRESCRIPTION"—a chapter of special interest and direct usefulness to the general practitioner—containing in each number a series of selected Formulas; and, occasionally, criticisms on Prescription Errors; information and suggestions on Incompatibilities and other Prescription Difficulties; what should be prescribed in Solid and what in Liquid form; the Regulation of General Dosage, in such various forms as: gargles, eye-washes, urethral injections, vaginal injections, medicated baths; as well as of Dosage by Age in enemas, suppositories, hypodermics, etc.
Besides the above, the journal will contain such minor but serviceable matters as: "QUERIES AND ANSWERS;" "NOTES AND HINTS;" "PROFESSIONAL NEWS," etc.
"MERCK'S ARCHIVES" does not profess to "do everything;" but it aims to do One Thing thoroughly,—to offer the practitioner new and valuable information on the Materia Medica and its recent developments.