Topics: Single-volume encyclopedia presents data on more than 10,000 chemicals, drugs and biological substances. Illustrated chemicals, descriptions, tables and charts, cross index and more. Thumb-indexed. Now provides enhanced coverage of traditional medicines, neutracueicals and cosmectuicals. Expanded therapeutic category index covers more than forty new categories and cross references. Accompanied by a text-searchable CD-ROM plus complimentary one-year personal subscription to CSC’s structure searchable Web version. Publication: 2564 pages. 14th edition, 2006.