viii PREFACE 



Finding that " his spiritual substance had vanished," old Simon Browne " took to an employ- 

 ment which did not require a soul, and so became a dictionary -maker," piously adding that 

 we should "thank God for everything and therefore for dictionary makers." 



This supplement has grown so rapidly and so voluminously that it is at least four times as 

 great as intended. Non mea culpa I It may serve as an addendum to most other works as well 

 as to my own, and also as a new book of the terminology of medical science which has been 

 devised during the last ten years. I have made use of the opportunity and have included some 

 things omitted in the work of 1894, and have added a number of obsolete or obsolescent words 

 which the student might find in his historic reading. Those who may detect any sins of 

 omission or of commission are requested to notify me in order that future editions mav 

 be made more accurate. 



To many friends and assistants I cannot adequately express my gratitude for unfailing kind- 

 ness and help in the preparation of this supplementary volume. To O. Rodham, G. C. C. 

 Howard, C. S. Dolley, D. Riesman, Burt G. Wilder, S. H. Gage, M. E. Raigueil, and others, 

 especial thanks are due, as also to C. F. Taylor, of London, England. Both scholarship and 

 time have been so continuously and unselfishly given by many that proper recognition mav 

 hardly be expressed in words. I should also mention the obligation of those who may find 

 the book of service in their professional work for the good offices, going far beyond anv 

 calculating commercialism, rendered by the best of publishers and of printers. 



A word may be added of some interest to those who have editions, subsequent to the first, 

 of the Illustrated Dictionary. The changes, insertions, corrections, etc., made in these various 

 editions have, for the most part, been incorporated in this supplement. 



I have a feeling of gladness in learning from my publishers that as many as 166,000 copies 

 of my medical dictionaries have been scattered among the profession in many parts of the 

 world. That evidences something of usefulness in the great cause of medical science and 

 progress. 



GEORGE M. GOULD. 



Philadelphia, igo4. 



