Discovery in Haste : English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 / Roderick McConchie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McConchie, Roderick, Author.

Series:

Lexicographica. Series maior ; Volume 156.

Lexicographica. Series Maior ; 156

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Dictionaries.

Medicine.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Andrew Boorde (1490?-1549) and The breuiary of helthe 1547

3. Medical glossaries

4. The physical dictionaries of 1655-1678

5. Latin medical dictionaries: Thomas Burnet and John Cruso

6. Steven Blancard (1650-1704)

7. John Quincy (1683?-1723) and the Lexicon physico-medicum

8. Aids to memory: Surgical dictionaries

9. Robert James (1703-1776) and A medicinal dictionary (1742-1745)

10. "Careful" John Barrow (fl. 1735-1773?)

11. George Motherby (1731-1793)

12. Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110636024

3110636026

9783110639186

3110639181

OCLC:

1102795916