LEA BROTHERS & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Dictionaries. 

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English, French, German, Italian and Latin Technical Terms used in Medicine and 

 the Collateral Sciences, and a Series of Tables of Useful Data. 



BY 



John , Billing?, IJ.D, LL.D, Ediq. and Haflr,, D.C.L, Dpi, 



Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Surgeon U. S. A. t etc. 

 WITH THE COLLABORATION OF 



PROF. W. O. ATWATER. JAMES M. FLINT, M. D., 



FRANK BAKER, M. D., J. H. KIDDER, M. D., 



S. M. BURNETT, M. D., WILLIAM LEE, M.D., 



W. T. COUNCILMAN, M. D., R. LORINI, M. D., 



WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, M. D. 

 C. S. MINOT, M.D. 

 H. C. YARROW, M. D., 



In two very handsome royal octavo volumes containing 1574 pages, 

 with two colored plates. 



Per Volume Cloth, $6; Leather, $7,' Half Morocco, Marbled Edges, $8.5O. For Sale 

 by Subscription only. Specimen pages on application. Address the Publishers. 



The publishers have great pleasure in presenting to the profession a new practical 

 working dictionary embracing in one alphabet all current terms used in every depart- 

 ment of medicine in the five great languages constituting modern medical literature. 



For the vast and complex labor involved in such an undertaking no one better quali- 

 fied than Dr. Billings could have been selected. He has planned the work, chosen the 

 most accomplished men to assist him in special departments, and personally supervised 

 and combined their work into a consistent and uniform whole. 



Special care has been taken to render the definitions clear, sharp and concise. 

 They are given in English, with synonyms in French, German and Italian of the more 

 important words in English and Latin. 



Eegarded as a dictionary, therefore, this standard work supplies the physician, 

 surgeon and specialist with all information concerning medical words, simple and com- 

 pound, found in English, giving correct spelling, clear, sharp definitions and accentua- 

 tion, and furthermore it enables him to consult foreign works and to understand the large 

 and increasing number of foreign words used in medical English. It is especially fall 

 in phrases comprising two, three or more words used in special senses in the various 

 departments of medicine. 



The work is, however, far more than a dictionary, and partakes of the nature of an 

 encyclopaedia, as it gives in its body a large amount of valuable therapeutical and chemi- 

 cal information, and groups in its tables, in a condensed and convenient form, a vast 

 amount of important data which will be consulted daily by all in active practice. 



The completeness of the work is made evident by the fact that it defines 84,844 

 separate words and phrases. 



The type has been most carefully selected for boldness and clearness, and everything 

 has been done to secure ease, rapidity and durability in use. 



Its scope is one which will at once satisfy the 

 student and meet all the requirements of the med- 

 ical practitioner. Clear and comprehensive defi- 

 nitions of words should form the prime feature of 

 any dictionary, and in this one the chief aim 

 se*>ms to be to give the exact signification and the 

 different meanings of terms in use in medicine 

 and the collateral sciences in language as terse as 

 is compatible with lucidity. The utmost brevity 

 and conciseness have been kept in view. The work 

 is remarkable, too, for it? fulness. The enumera- 

 tions and subdivisions under each word heading 

 are strikingly complete, as regardsalike the Eng 

 lish tongue and the languages chiefly employed 

 by ancient and modern science. It is impossible 

 to do justice to the dictionary by any casual illus 

 tration. It presents to the English reader a 

 thoroughly scientific mode of acquiring a rich 

 vocabulary and offers an accurate and ready means 

 of reference in consulting works in any of the 



three modern continental languages which are 

 richest in medical literature. To add to its use- 

 fulness as a work of reference some valuable 

 tables are given. Another feature of the work is 

 the accuracy of its definitions, all of which have 

 been checked by comparison with many other 

 standard works in the different languages it deals 

 with. Apart from tne boundless stores of informa- 

 tion which may be gained by the study of a good 

 dictionary, one is enabled by the work under notice 

 to read intelligently any technical treatise in any 

 of the four chief modern languages. There can- 

 not be two opinions as to the great value and use- 

 fulness of this dictionary as a oook of ready refer- 

 ence for all sorts and conditions of medical men. 

 So far as we have been able to see, no subject has 

 been omitted, and in respect of completeness it will 

 be found distinctly superior to any medical lexicon 

 yet published. The London Lancet, April 5, 1890. 



