Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1900
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    INDEX. Abbreviation of titles of medical peri¬ odicals, 5^ Accents, French, 67 Accuracy in pagination, 129 Adjective of pons, 79 Adverbial terminal, question as to, 57 Alphabet, Chinese, 165 Alphabetic signs, origin of, 164 Ambiguous or insufficient titles, 32 Anatomic terms to be preferred, 61 And, origin of sign for, 96 Apoplexy, 75 Apostrophe, origin of, 97 Apt for liable, etc., 117 Articles and books, size of, 148 Avoid long titles, 34 Badly-chosen words, 116 Basedow’s disease, 76 Bibliographies often shams, 34 Books and articles, size of, 148 Books, big or little ? 145 Books, collaboration, 150 Bryant index expurgatorius, 120 Cancer superseded by carcinoma or sar¬ coma, 74 Capitalization of scientific terms, 52 Carcinoma or sarcoma, not cancer, 74 “ Case,” misuse of the word, 84 Certain words, use of, 118 Change of title, 127 Changes in meanings of words, 169 Charts for illustrating, 34 Chemic terms, spelling and pronunci¬ ation of, 43 Chinese alphabet, 165 Choroid, thyroid, etc., 74 Chymical signs from Motherby’s Dic¬ tionary, 90, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99, 101, 102. Circumflex accent, origin of, 91 Collaboration-books, 150 Colon, origin of, 92 Comma, origin of, 96 Comparison, exactness in terms of, 85 Composite books, 150 Composition, logical order of, 120 Compounds, hyphenated, or separate words, 48 Compounds, solid-word, 49 Construction, strabismic, 113 Consumption or phthisis superseded by tuberculosis, 76 Contagion and infection, 71 Coquet, 167 Dates, mode of writing, 52 Degenerate words, 169 Descriptions, exactness in, 85 Designations, eponymic, 69 Diereses, disuse of advised, 30 Dieresis, origin of, 91 Difficulties in medical reporting, 132 Difficulties, sopre scientifical, 26 Difficulty, another spelling, 47 Digits, the, 95 Dilation or dilatation, 78 Dilettanteism in language, 69 Diphthongs against the genius of lan¬ guage, 20 Diphthong, use and abuse of, 41 Division-sign, origin of, 97 Dotting of digits, 99 Dram, origin of sign, 101 Duplicates of articles sent different jour¬ nals, 153 Editors and publishers, rules for, 125 Elision of final <?, 42 English, medical, suggestions as to, 7 English, monosyllabic character of lan¬ guage, 176 English titles and nomenclature, 33 Eponymic designations, 69 Equality sign, origin of, 97 Ethical questions, 139 Etymologic spelling an absurdity, 21 “ Euphony ” in superfluous suffixes, 23 Exactness in comparisons and descrip¬ tions, 85 Exclamation point, origin of, 97 Exophthalmic goiter, 76 Figures or spelled out? 123 Fine tools without learning trade, 107 First person singular in different lan¬ guages, 178 Foreign words and terms, 65 French accents, 67 German habit, protest against a bad, 69 Ghost words, 168 Goiter, exophthalmic, 76 Gotten, 73 Graves’ disease, 76 Greek i changed to ef 22 Grimm’s law, 173 Habit, a bad German, protest against, 69 Hall, H. O., rules for editors and pub¬ lishers, 125 Hatred of innovation, 18 Heteronyms, 67 Highfalutin, 106 History and psychology in words, 156 Hybrid words, 17, 68 Hyphenated compounds or separated words, 48