Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary: 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

This dictionary, which is the first of its kind in the field of medicine, differs from other previously published dictionaries in the manner of its development. This is, as far as is known to the reviewer, the first medical dictionary to be built largely around the faculty of a medical school, utilizing at the same time the knowledge of many leaders of medicine from other medical schools. A reference to the list of contributors—unique again in any medical dictionary—reveals the authoritative character of those responsible for words and definitions in highly specialized fields.

The years that have been devoted to the development of this dictionary have called attention to medical lexicographic problems to which relatively little thought has been given previously. These problems concern such matters as obsolescence of medical words, the relative importance of proprietary or trade-marked drugs, the recognition of usage as the final authority and the decisions