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A POCKET MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Author(s) -
C. V. Brownlow,
H. K. Lewis
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1942.tb108826.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web
This dictionary contains a vast amount of valuable information. There are over 40,000 terms used in medicine and the allied sciences. The appendix contains complete tables of arteries, nerves, muscles, chemical elements, hormones, micro-organisms, prefixes and suffixes, phobias, signs and symbols, etc., also dose lists of drugs and incompatibilities and a veterinary dose table, both in English and metric measures. The reviewer would suggest that more attention should be paid to certain terms used in tropical medicine; e.g., the definition of kala-azar given in this book is ' An epidemic fever of Assam', which is obviously very unsatisfactory; and there is no mention of Napier's aldehyde test or Chopra's antimony test, though there are to be found, ' Froehde's reaction for