PHYSICIANS' INTERPRETER 



IIV FOUR LANGUAGES. 



(ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND ITALIAN.) 



Specially Arranged for Diagnosis by M. von V. 



The object of this little work is to meet a need often keenly felt by 

 the busy physician, namely, the need of some quick and reliable method 

 of communicating intelligibly with patients of those nationalities and 

 languages unfamiliar to the practitioner. The plan of the book is a sys- 

 tematic arrangement of questions upon the various branches of Practical 

 Medicine, and each question is so worded that the only answer required 

 of the patient is merely YES or No. The questions are all numbered, 

 and a complete Index renders them always available for quick reference. 

 The book is written by one who is well versed in English, French, Ger- 

 man, and Italian, being an excellent teacher in all those languages, and 

 who has also had considerable hospital experience. 



Bound in Full Russia Leather, for Carrying- in the Pocket. (Size, 5x2 



Inches.) 206 Pages. Price, post-paid, in United States and 



Canada, $1.0O, net; Great Britain, 4s. 6d. ; France, 6 fr. 2O. 



To convey some idea of the scope of the questions contained in the 

 Physicians' Interpreter, we append the Index : 



General health 1-50 



Special diet 31- 47 



Age of patient 52- 62 



Necessity of patients undergoing an opera- 

 tion 63- 70 



Office hours 71-77 



Days of the week 78- 84 



Patient's history: hereditary affections in his 

 family; his occupation; diseases from 



his childhood up 85-130 



Months of the year. 106-117 



Seasons of the year 118-121 



Symptoms of typhoid fever ..131-158 



Symptoms of Bright's disease 159-168 



Symptoms of lung diseases 169-194 and 311-312 



Vertigo 195-201 



Theeyes 201-232 



Paralysis and rheumatism 236-260 



Stomach complaints and chills 261-269 



Falls and fainting spells 271-277 



How patient's illness began, and when pa- 

 tient was first taken sick 278-279 



Names for various parts of the body 283-295 



The liver ,300-301 



The memory 304-305 



Bites, stings, pricks 314-316 



Eruptions 317-318 



Previous treatment 319 



Symptoms of lead-poisoning 320-324 



Hemorrhages 325-328 



Burns and sprains 33-33i 



The throat 33 2 ~335 



The ears , 33^-339 



General directions concerning medicines, 

 baths, bandaging, gargling, painting 



swelling, etc 34-373 



Numbers pages 202-204 



The work is well done, and calculated to be of great 

 service to those who wish to acquire familiarity with the 

 phrases used in questioning patients. More than this, we 

 believe it would lie a great help in acquiring a vocabulary 

 to be used in reading medical books, and that it would fur- 

 nish an excellent basis for beginning a study of any one of 

 the languages which it includes. Medical and Surgical 

 Reporter. 



Many other books of the same sort, with more ex- 

 tensive vocabularies, have been published, but, from their 

 size, and from their being usually devoted to equivalents 

 in English and one other language only, they have not had 

 the advantage which is pre-eminent in this convenience. 

 It is handsomely printed, and bound in flexible red leather 

 in the form of a diary. It would scarcely make itself felt 

 in one's hip- pocket, and would insure its bearer against any 

 ordinary conversational difficulty in dealing with foreign- 

 speaking people, who are constantly coming into our city 

 hospitals. New York Medical Journal. 



In our larger cities, and in the whole Northwest, the 

 physician is constantly meeting with immigrant patients, 

 to whom it is difficult for him to make himself understood, 

 or to know what they eay in return. This difficulty will 



be greatly obviated by use of this little work. The Phy- 

 sician ami Sitrffeun. 



The phrases are well selected, and one might practice 

 long without requiring more of these languages than this 

 little book furnishes. Phila. Medical Tim,*. 



How often the physician is called to attend those with 

 whom the English language is unfamiliar, and many phy- 

 sicians are thus deprived of the means, save through an 

 interpreter, of arriving at a correct knowledge on which to 

 basea diagnosis. An interpreter is not always at hand, 

 but with this pocket interpreter in your hand you are able 

 to ask all the questions necessary, and receive the answer 

 in such manner that you will be able to fully comprehend. 

 The Medical Brief . . 



This little volume is one of the most ingenious aids 

 to the physician which we have seen. We heartily com- 

 mend the book to any one who, being without a knowledge 

 of the foreign languages, is obliged to treat those who dp 

 not know our own language. St. Louis Courier of Medi- 

 cine. 



It will rapidly supersede, for the practical use of the 

 doctor who cannot take the time to learn another language. 

 all other suggestive works. Chicago Medical Times. 



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(F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) 



