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Discovery in Haste - English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 (Hardcover)
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Discovery in Haste - English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 (Hardcover)
Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior
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Discovery in Haste is the first book to survey the English printed
medical dictionary, a greatly under-researched area, from Andrew
Boorde's Breviary of Helthe of 1547 to Benjamin Lara's surgical
dictionary of 1796. The book begins with Andrew Boorde's Breviary
of Helthe of 1547, moves on to medical glossaries, which were
produced through the whole period, the 'physical dictionaries' of
the mid-seventeenth century which first employed 'dictionary' in
the title, the translation into English of Steven Blancard's
dictionary, Latin medical dictionaries of the late seventeenth
century by Thomas Burnet and John Cruso, the influential dictionary
by John Quincy which dominated the eighteenth century, surgical
dictionaries through to that by Benjamin Lara, Robert James's
massive encyclopaedic dictionary and the work derived from it by
John Barrow, as well as George Motherby's dictionary of 1775. The
characteristics of each are discussed and their inter-relationships
explored. Attention is also paid to the printing history and the
way the publishers influenced the works and, where appropriate, to
the influence each had on succeeding dictionaries. This book is the
first to locate medical dictionaries within the history of
lexicography.
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