A dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    of Mayne's Expository Lexicon, now in progress of publica- tion ; the French Dictionary of Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History; Brande's Encyclo- paedia ; Ure's Dictionary of the Arts, and Ogilvie's Impe- rial Dictionary. It was his intention to give due credit to each author for all original matter taken from his pages, but this was soon found to be impracticable, inasmuch as a very superficial comparison of the several works of the kind, in our own and other languages, served to show that defini- tions had been considered common property, and transferred from one work to another without acknowledgment, until the paternity was beyond satisfactory ascertainment. He has, therefore, availed himself of the common privilege which seems to have been claimed by all lexicographers who have preceded him. For the definitions of the terms belonging to general Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, he claims no special originality, although where alterations seemed necessary, he has not hesitated to make them, and in all in- stances he has endeavored to be as concise as possible, and in most cases to give the definition of each word in im- mediate connection with it, without referring first to one, and then to another and another synonym for it, as is fre- quently done by most lexicographers. In these departments of the work he has confined himself, for the most part, to mere definitions, but on all subjects connected with Dental Surgery proper, as well as with the anatomical structures, diseases, treatment and operations on the mouth and adja- cent parts, this Dictionary will be found very full. It also