Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1900
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Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under its various titles. The North American Medical Re¬ view ended with No. 9 of Volume VII, and the Medicus begins at No. 10 of Volume VII. How shall these journals be bound is the question that puzzles the librarian. There are nine numbers of Volume VII of the journal under the old title, and three numbers of Volume VII under the new title. It would not do to bind Nos. 10, 11 and 12 of Volume VII (The Medicus) with Nos. 1—9 of Volume VII {North American Medical Review). If you bind Nos. 10, 11 and 12 in one thin volume it would not be correct to call it Volume VII of the Medicus, and if these three num¬ bers are bound in with the twelve numbers of Volume VIII (supposing it completes Volume VIII without an¬ other change of title and volume), it could not be called Volumes VII and VIII, So the librarian is perplexed to know what to do. But the trouble does not end here. The indexer has also a problem to solve. An article which began in No. 9 of Volume VII of the North American Medical Review is continued in No. 10 of Volume VII of the Medicus. How is he to index an article which began in one journal and continues with consecutive pagination, number and volume of another journal ? This same difficulty is liable to occur, and does often occur, when the title of any jour¬ nal is changed. But, to complicate the matter still further, as if there was a studied effort to try to dethrone the reason of the poor librarian, No. 11 of the Medicus, the second under the new title, comes out as Volume VIII, No. 11. The preceding number was No. 10, Volume VII, and all reference to its being a successor to the North American Medical Review is religiously omitted. So any one not acquainted with its previous erratic history will not be able to tell whence it came or whither it goeth, or why it should be called Volume VII or VIII. I have gone rather fully into the details of this one case, and it is by no means an extreme one, to show the great annoyance and trouble caused by the careless and flippant
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