MEDICAL VADE MECUM
[MEDICAL DICTIONARY.]
Dictionary of medical terms, Latin-English wordlist, and list of abbreviations and contractions.
[S.l., early 1800s].
8vo (190 x 125 mm), pp. [132] + [44] (loose in 2 gatherings at end); manuscript on paper, neatly written in brown ink in a single hand, up to 25 lines per page; very well preserved in burgundy roan, marbled endpapers; light wear at extremities.
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Dictionary of medical terms, Latin-English wordlist, and list of abbreviations and contractions.
An interesting manuscript compiled by an anonymous medical student, comprising a dictionary of medical terms, from ‘Abdomen’ to ‘Zoster’, followed by a glossary of Latin terms with their English equivalents (including ‘Machina electrica – the electric machine’), and ending with a list of Latin medical abbreviations, giving their full form and rendering them into English. The whole makes an extremely useful pocket-sized compendium for the student of medicine.
References are made to ‘Cullen’ and to ‘Dr Willan’, i.e. the eminent Scottish physician Dr William Cullen (1710–1790), and Dr Robert Willan (1757–1812), famous for his seminal work on skin complaints.