Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Date:
1802
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Credit: Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • all ufeful nofological defcriptions omitted. Similar deficien- cies and ufelefs uxuberances occur in every other department of the work; and the number of obfolete terms retained, were very confiderable. When, therefore, the editor of the prefent edition was folicited to undertake its revifion, he thought he could not do a more acceptable office to the pub- lic, than almoit wholly new model it. With this view he has been careful to colledt fuch information as may render the work generally ufeful. The whole of his Compendious Medical Dictionary has been introduced into this edition, and fuch deficiencies as occurred have been amended. Par- ticular attention has been paid to the derivation of the terms ; the anatomical defcription of the various parts, and the ex- planation of their Functions, have been much enlarged ; the difeafes are confidered according to the moft approved nofo- logical arrangement, and their fymptoms and dictinctions clearly enumerated : the materia medica and the preparations which enter the London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias have been amply confidered ; the improvements of modern Che- mifiry every where introduced, and the terms in Surgery, Mid- wifry. Medical Botany, and other Branches of Natural Philo- iophy, as far as connected with Medical Science, have been i fully treated. In doing this,1 the author has confulted the moft eminent writers on the different branches of medicine, and has made fuch extracts, abridgments, and tranflations, as the extent of the work would admit. The learned reader will therefore readily perceive his obligations to Haller, Albinus, Hunter, Cruickshank, Soemmering, Scarpa, Meyer, I & Bell, t