This booklet is intended to provide medical personnel with a concise reference source for drug names, the preparations availiable, and common dosages in adults in a tabular format. The pocket size of the handbook has been exceptionally popular (with over 1,000,000 copies in circulation of over the 15 years of publication). In each new edition new drugs, new dosage forms, and new indications that become available each year will be added. We are committed to publishing this booklet in the pocket-size design so that it can be placed in a jacket or laboratory coat pocket and carried throughout the hospital or used in the office, emergency room, and classroom. We hope that you will use this handbook in this way.

We attempt to present the most common trade names and adult dosages, and this handbook should be used only as a guideline to these; it should not be considered as an official therapeutic document. If there is a discrepancy in therapeutic category, preparations, and dosages, the reader is advised to obtain official and more complete information from the pharmaceutical manufacturer.

As always, we are most grateful for your continued interest and support.
----G. John DiGregorio, M.D., Ph.D.
----Edward J. Barbieri, Ph.D