A German-English dictionary of medical terms / by Frederick Treves and Hugo Lang.

  • Treves, Frederick, 1853-1923.
Date:
1890
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    PEEFAOE. The important share taken by German writers in the litera- ture of modern Medicine, the extent to which their works are read by English-speaking people, and the technical character of the language employed, render a German-English Dictionary of Medical Terms a necessity. One such Dictionary exists—the well-known' Dictionary of the German Terms used in Medicine,' by Dr, George R. Cutter. This work was published in 1879, and more recent versions of the book have modified it but little. Since 1879 great changes have taken place in Medical Literature. It has become not only more exuberant and more voluminous, but it has extended into wider territories, and has been called upon to provide a language for new branches of the science and for new developments of the ancient art. In the special branches of Medicine and Surgery, in Physiology and in Pathology, the advance in word-making has been remarkable. The new science of Bacteriology has already its 'Worterbuch.' With the advance of Embryology has sprung up a luxuriant growth of technical terms, and in the ' Sachregister' of every ' Centralblatt,' ' Jahrbuch,' and special treatise will be found a multitude of words which were not in existence or in common use some ten years ago. The present Dictionary has occupied somewhat more than the leisure time of the last five years. It can claim to be an entirely original work, and to fairly represent the extent of German medical literature at tlie present date.