Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

George M. Gould

Date:: 1900

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$I. 178 Illustrations, exactness in use, 38 Illustrations, inability to alter, 38 Illustrations, temperature-charts for, 36 Image in the mirror, 139 Immune to or immune from? 120 Inconsistency, terminologic, 80 Index expurgatorius, 120 Infection and contagion, 71 Infinitive, the split, 122 Innovation, hatred of, 18 Interrogation point, origin of, 97 Intolerance, literary, 141 “ It is to be,” 80 J, tailing of, 100 Language, immateriality of, 159 Latin, use of, 8 Lay and lie, 73 Ligature, origin of, 91 Literary intolerance, 141 Literature, professional control and own¬ ership of, 143 Logical order of composition, 120 Long titles, avoid, 34 Man, derivation of word meaning, 168 Manuscript, preparation of, 35 Meaning of words changed, 169 Medical English, suggestions as to, 7 Medical Paleography, 86 Medical periodicals, abbreviation of titles, 53 Minus sign, origin of, 97 Mirror, image in the, 139 Misunderstood proverbs, 154 Misuse of the word case, 84 Mononyms, 68 Mood, subjunctive, use of, 115 Nationalisms and vernacularisms, 67 Nomenclature, English and titles, 33 Numbering volumes, accuracy in, 129 Order, logical, of composition, 120 Origin, modern punctuation marks, 89 Orthography, 40 Ounce, abbreviation for, 100 Ounce, origin of sign for, 101 Oz. and viz., 100 Pagination, accuracy in, 129 Paronvmous plurals, 71 Paronyms, 67 Parry’s disease, 76 Pecilonymy or terminologic inconsist¬ ency, 80 Period, origin of, 92 Periodicals, medical, 'abbreviation of titles of, 53 Perissology, 106 Pharmacopeia, spelling of, 48 Phonetic, purpose in spelling, 24 Phthisis, or consumption, superseded by tuberculosis, 76 Plurals, paronymous, 71 . * Polrnyms, 68 ‘eSU Pons, adjective of, 79 Pound, abbreviation for, 97 as: Preface, 3 Prescription signs, 101 Pronunciation and spelling of chemic terms, 43 Pronunciation, as to, 58 Pronunciation, general principles of, 44 Protest against bad German habit, 69 Proverbs misunderstood, 154 Psychology and history in words, 156 Publishers and editors, rules for, 125 Punctuation, 58 Punctuation, history of, 89 Questions, some ethical, 139 References, 34 Reform rules, 29 Refract as a transitive verb, 78 Reporting, difficulties in, 132 Rules for editors and publishers, 125 Rules for writing, 106 Rules of reform, 29 Sarcoma or carcinoma, not cancer, 74 Scientific terms, capitalization of, 52 Scientifical difficulties, 26 Scruple, origin of sign, 101 Separate words or hyphenated com¬ pounds, 48 Semicolon, origin of, 94 Sentences suffering from spastic para¬ plegia, 114 Shilling, sign for, 97 Size of articles and books, 148 Size of journals uniform, 126 Skiascopy, confusion in use of the term, 77 Solid word compounds, 49 Spastic paraplegic sentences, 114 Spelling, 40 Spelling and pronunciation of chemic terms, 43 Spelling difficulty, another, 47 Spelling, etymological, absurd, 21 Spelling-reform, 40 Split infinitive, 122 Strabismic construction, 113 Style, 104 Subjunctive mood, stop the use of, 115 Suffixes, superfluous, 25 Superfluous suffixes, 25 Sympathectomy, 79 Tailing of thej, 100 Temperature-charts for illustrations, 36 Terminal, adverbial, question as to, 57 Terminologic inconsistency, 80 Terms, anatomic, to be preferred, 61 Terms and words, foreign, 65 Thorn-letter, 165 Thyroid, choroid, etc., 74 Title, change of, 127 Titles, ambiguous or insufficient, 32 Titles, avoid long, 33 Titles, English, and nomenclature, 33 Titles of medical periodicals, abbrevi¬ ations of, 53 Tools, fine, without trade, 107 Tubercular or tuberculous, 81 Tuberculosis, not consumption or phthisis, 76 Umlaut, origin of, 91 Use of certain words, 118 Use of Latin, 8 Verbs that give trouble, 72 Vernacularisms and nationalisms, 67$

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