Commonly known as "Dunglison's
Medical Dictionary", this compendious
volume is far more than a dictionary, providing a wide range of medical
information as it was known at the end of the Civil War. The author has added
much to this second edition of his work, and has designed it to be "A French As
Well As An English Medical Lexicon."
There are many areas of terminology included here, included anatomy, chemistry,
herbal medicine, pharmacology, and many more. Latin and French forms of many
words are given, and Latin and Greek etymologies are also frequent. There are
also unexpected data sets dispersed through the volume in their proper
alphabetic place, such as spas and health resorts, both in Europe and in the
United States, or the terminology used in various magical systems of healing.
Many of the medicines and medical conditions covered by this volume have
multiple names, sometimes dozens, in England, French and Latin. Each of these
names appears in its proper place in the alphabet, with a cross-reference to the
appropriate main entry, where one finds not only the definition but a complete
compilation of all the variant names. This feature especially will be very
helpful in understanding causes of death as they may be entered in various
public and private records.
In many instances, the entries carry on for a page or more, providing
information that one would expect to find in an encyclopedia rather than a
dictionary. For example, the entry for "Artery" covers a page and a half, while
the entry for "Cinchona" and its derivatives spans more than a page and
describes the many types and uses of the bark of this tree.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has
been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed,
enlarged and printed out if required.
