The Merck Manual of Children's Health

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An easy-to-use guide to children's health from the world's most widely used medical reference series, revised and updated. The legendary Merck Manual was first published in 1899, and has always been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416536116
• ISBN13: 9781416536116
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Up-to-date medical info

If you have a regular Home Edition of the Merck Manual, then you don't need the Children's version (that's why I did not give it 5 stars). Everything is in the regular version, in some cases more detailed. Either version gives you the newest (look at the year of the edition) detailed medical info with causes/ symptoms/ diagnoses/ prevention+treatment. For treatment, the Merck Manual generally tells you what a doctor might or should do and what tests could and should be done and what kind of drugs might be used, but it generally does not tell you how to treat yourself with home remedies. But it tells you a lot of things doctors don't want or forget to tell you (like the duration or the outlook of certain diseases or side effects of drugs or accuracy of tests). If you are paranoid, you do not want to read a Merck Manual (you might identify yourself or others with all kinds of diseases).

Glad to have it as a reference

So far so good -- I'll know bettter as I use it more. I rely on my original Merck Manual, and I am glad to have this as a reference