The Record of Sixteenth-century English Medical Terminology
McConchie, R. W. (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Helsinki, Finland)
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Hardback
460 pages
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Published: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198236301
In the 16th century, medical practitioners had their own body of special terms. This book examines the medical terminology used in a selection of 13 medical works published between 1530 and 1612, and compares it with the treatment of these words in dicti