The words of medicine : sources, meanings, and delights /
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Springfield, Ill. :
Charles C. Thomas,
c2001
Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : c2001 |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1 Introduction
- Ch. 2. A Brief History of the English Medical Vocabulary
- Ch. 3. Living Pieces of Dead Languages: Prefixes
- Ch. 4. Living Pieces of Dead Languages: Suffixes
- Ch. 5. Medicine in Action: Latin and Greek Verbs
- Ch. 6. Flowering Roots: Latin and Greek Adjectives
- Ch. 7. The Imagery of Medicine: The Natural Order
- Ch. 8. The Imagery of Medicine: The Carnival of the Animals
- Ch. 9. The Imagery of Medicine: This Green Earth
- Ch. 10. The Imagery of Medicine: Home and Hearth
- Ch. 11. The Imagery of Medicine: Life as It is Lived
- Ch. 12. The Imagery of Medicine: Passions and Preoccupations
- Ch. 13. Latin Redivivus et Vivens: Medical Latin Then and Now
- Ch. 14. Different Words, Different Times: Medical Words of Yesteryear
- Ch. 15. Herbs, Simples, and Potions: Yesterday's Pharmacopeia
- Ch. 16. The French Connection: The Gallic Legacy
- Ch. 17. The Wide World of Words: Borrowings from Hither and Yon
- Ch. 18. Eponyms: Myth, Religion, and Worship
- Ch. 19. Eponyms; People, Patients, Protagonists, and Places
- Ch. 20. Eponyms: Anatomy, the Visual Science
- Ch. 21. Eponyms: The Physician's Art
- Ch. 22. Eponyms: Some Ills that Man is Heir to
- Ch. 23. Modern Materia Medica: The Drugs of Today
- Ch. 24. Long Phrases to Short: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Mnemonics
- Ch. 25. Some Practical Pointers
- Ch. 26. Quo Vadis?