A German-English Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences

Abstract

THERE is undoubtedly a vacant place which would be filled by a well-compiled work bearing the above title. The book now under review has a certain claim on our regard in this connection, and in some respects is a useful work. It purports to be, in the first place, a medical dictionary, and, so far as we can judge, fulfils, this promise in a satisfactory manner. With a few-minor blemishes there is a complete vocabulary of medical terms, and as a rule these are very fairly rendered by their English equivalents. But in the allied sciences, which are also supposed to be included, there are curious lacunæ. Chemistry is pretty welt represented—for example, we found most of the technical terms in Biedermann's “Chemiker Kalendar” duly set down—but the pathological vocabulary leaves much to be desired, and apparently physiology is not considered an allied science at all—at any rate, physiological terms are very seldom to be met with.

A German-English Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences.

By Hugo Lang B. Abrahams. Pp. vi + 598. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1905.) Price 15s. net.