The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary PDF Download

Excerpt from The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary: Containing a Concise Explanation of All the Terms Used in Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Botany, Natural History, Chemistry, and Materia Medica When a new book appears on a subject on which there are many good ones already, the public expect to receive an answer to the obvious question, What need was there for another? Several of those medical dictionaries which have preceded this possess great merit, and most of them have some merit which ours' does not possess. This must follow from the small size of the present vo lumefi But, small as it is, we believe it will be found to contain several useful kinds of information not to be met with in any other single work; and of those I am now to give some account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.