Discovery in Haste : : English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 /

Discovery in Haste : : English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 / / Roderick McConchie.

Discovery in Haste is the first book to survey the English printed medical dictionary, a greatly under-researched area, from Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Helthe of 1547 to Benjamin Lara’s surgical dictionary of 1796. The book begins with Andrew Boorde’s Breviary of Helthe of 1547, moves on to me...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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McConchie, Roderick,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 156
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 226 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Andrew Boorde (1490?–1549) and The breuiary of helthe 1547
  • 3. Medical glossaries
  • 4. The physical dictionaries of 1655–1678
  • 5. Latin medical dictionaries: Thomas Burnet and John Cruso
  • 6. Steven Blancard (1650–1704)
  • 7. John Quincy (1683?–1723) and the Lexicon physico-medicum
  • 8. Aids to memory: Surgical dictionaries
  • 9. Robert James (1703–1776) and A medicinal dictionary (1742–1745)
  • 10. “Careful” John Barrow (fl. 1735–1773?)
  • 11. George Motherby (1731–1793)
  • 12. Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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