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

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, move...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McConchie, Roderick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Series:Lexicographica. Series maior ; 156.
Subjects:
Medicine > England > Lexicography.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Medicine > Lexicography
England
Online Access:Texto completo
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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