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First edition. Edited by Harold Wellington Jones, M.D.; Normand L. Hoerr, M.D., and Arthur Osol, Ph.D. With the cooperation of an editorial board and eighty contributors. Price. $8.50 (textbook edition). Pp. 1294, with 252 illustrations on 45 plates, 129 in color. The Blakiston Company, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia 5, 1949.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1950;51(5):779.

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The Blakiston Company describes this work as "a modern, comprehensive dictionary of the terms used in all branches of medicine and allied sciences, including medical physics and chemistry, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary medicine, biology and botany, as well as medicolegal terms, with illustrations and tables." This description is a concise summary of what is contained in this very comprehensive volume. Every physician needs a dictionary, and the Blakistons have been publishing medical dictionaries under the title of "Gould Medical Dictionary" since 1890, all of them having been accepted as standard. This present work, however, is in no sense a revision of any of the excellent dictionaries of the past, although based on them, and the new terms have multiplied greatly. It is a completely new reference work, compiled by a staff of experts, and it is now many years since a really new work of this character has been put . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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