Familiar Medical Quotations

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FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONS
EDITED BY MAURICE B. STRAUSS, M.D.
FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONS — a magnificent collection of medical wit and wisdom through the ages — does for the medical profession specifically what Little, Brown and Company's Bartlett's familiar Quotations has done for the literate world in general.
For the first time, it places at the reader's fingertips an authoritative, comprehensive treasury of the world's greatest medical writings and sayings — a vast new storehouse of colorful anecdotes, nuggets of humor, and eloquent passages of medical genius — not otherwise conveniently and easily accessible until now.
Here, at last, are literally thousands of significant observations and reflections on medicine from doctors, patients, scientists, philosophers, writers, poets, and scribes — from Cathay's Huang Ti, five thousand years ago, to present-day opinions on transplantation and birth control — selected and compiled into over 950 pages of reliable reference.... Tovább

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FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONS
EDITED BY MAURICE B. STRAUSS, M.D.
FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONS — a magnificent collection of medical wit and wisdom through the ages — does for the medical profession specifically what Little, Brown and Company's Bartlett's familiar Quotations has done for the literate world in general.
For the first time, it places at the reader's fingertips an authoritative, comprehensive treasury of the world's greatest medical writings and sayings — a vast new storehouse of colorful anecdotes, nuggets of humor, and eloquent passages of medical genius — not otherwise conveniently and easily accessible until now.
Here, at last, are literally thousands of significant observations and reflections on medicine from doctors, patients, scientists, philosophers, writers, poets, and scribes — from Cathay's Huang Ti, five thousand years ago, to present-day opinions on transplantation and birth control — selected and compiled into over 950 pages of reliable reference.
Copies of familiar Medical Quotations are certain to find their way to a wide variety of audiences — from the medical speech writer seeking an authoritative guide to medicine's best prose, to the student desiring insight into the evolution of modern medicine, to the bedtime reader casually exploring the folklore of the profession.
The more than 7,000 quotations have been carefully researched for accuracy of content and source. They are arranged into well over 400 subject categories which broadly range from Allergy to X-ray. To provide historical perspective, the quotations have been organized chronologically under each appropriate subject category.
An index of key words and medical concepts, containing almost 40,000 entries, is supplemented by a complete index of authors. To find any quo-
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tation, the reader need know only its author or a single key word.
In addition to the wealth of wisdom and scholarship embodied in 1!MQ, there is good fun, too. Moments spent browsing through this treasure chest are certain to be richly rewarding, entertaining, and enlightening to professional and layman alike.
familiar Medical Quotations, as the very first reference of its kind, is destined to become an enduring literary friend and companion to many, and a significant contribution to modern medical life.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER ABOUT
FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONS
IN 1859, Little, Brown and Company began publishing John Bartlett's familiar Quotations, a general compilation of quotations destined to become one of the most treasured and respected references in American life, familiar Medical Quotations is a natural extension of Bartlett's, dedicated to what is perhaps the most humanitarian of all professions. The same exceptionally high standards of literary excellence and exhaustive scholarship embodied in Bartlett's have been applied in the preparation of familiar Medical Quotations — itself the product of more than four years of painstaking research and planning. In addition, readers of fMQ will find a convenient similarity in the extensive key-word index, an invaluable aid in locating desired quotations. Linlike Bartlett's, however, fMQ has its quotations chronologically grouped under alphabetical subject headings, a more useful approach for medical literature. A comprehensive index of authors further facilitates the locating of quotations.
Anyone who has used and appreciated Bartlett's will discover in fMQ an equally impressive, extremely valuable desktop reference.
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