A German-English Dictionary
94 REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Used in Medicine and the Cognate sciences.
- Author:
Fancourt Barnes, M.D., Aberd.,
M.R.C.r., London, &c. H. K. Lewis, 136 Grower Street, W.C., 1881.
Tnis work will be of great value, not only to medical students in general, but also to those who are engaged in psychological studies. German medical terms have multiplied so rapidly of late, that a concise glossary of them had become a necessity. Dr Fancourt Barnes has supplied this want, and has executed his task carefully and satisfactorily. He gives the following account of his own reasons for publishing the work:? ” In consenting to undertake the compilation of a dictionary of words used in German medical literature, I was well aware of the many difficulties, some of them insurmountable, which would beset the task. One of the chief of these was the collection of the ever-multiplying legion of new words. I cannot pretend to have brought ail these together; it is impossible to do more than to gather up those which have been more or less recognised in the course of a few years’ existence. Another difficulty was to determine whether or not a word had grown so old as to become obsolete, and therefore not worthy of a place in the dictionary. Where there appeared to be any doubt on this point, I preferred to leave the word.”
We have much pleasure in introducing this work to our readers, and we cordially recommend it.
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