Abstract
This small volume is all that it pretends to be: a concise, well edited dictionary of the technical terms of medicine, including Greek and Latin etymologies, names of diseases, surgical and obstetric operations, clinical symptoms, anatomic lesions and laboratory terms. It does not contain many general scientific terms, names of chemicals and various preparations and instruments, terms of anatomy, biology and physiology, nor are there many biographic references. One good feature is that it frequently gives the name of the physician who brought a word or expression into use; often also the date of the first usage. It may possibly be said to have unduly emphasized pathology to the exclusion of other branches of medicine. The book is intended primarily for French medical students, and is only occasionally of value to the English-speaking physician, since he has practically all the pathologic terms, in almost the identical form, in his English
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