Laws of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh : instituted MDCCXXXVII; incorporated by royal charter, December 14, MDCCLXXVIII.
- Date:
- 1855
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Credit: Laws of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh : instituted MDCCXXXVII; incorporated by royal charter, December 14, MDCCLXXVIII. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![/ PREFACE. V quently found quoted by writers who have never seen the Journals or Transactions in which the papers originally appeared. With regard to Christian names, the infinite varieties in title-pages rendered the adoption of any one general rule impossible. To have given such names in full would, in many foreign and old Latin works, have caused the first line of an article to consist wholly of Christian names. It has been thought sufficient for the identification of authors, to give the first of these names in full, and to designate the others by their initials. In cases where an author’s name has been omitted from a title- page, or partially concealed under initials, but where conclusive evi- dence of authorship could be obtained from the work itself, or from other sources, the name has been printed in full, but enclosed between brackets, [ ]. In the difficult task of abbreviating title-pages, it has been made a rule to adhere as strictly as possible to their exact words, and, when- ever it was necessary to add words not there found, they have been enclosed in brackets, as interpolations. Words not existing on a title-page, but added for the purpose of distinguishing an author from another of the same name, or for his more precise identification, are printed in italics. Letters indicating honorary titles, such as M.D., F.RS., <fcc., have generally been omitted, on the ground that it was impossible to dis- tribute them with strict fidelity among works published in so many different languages, and at such various periods. The use of these letters would not have ensured the identification of doubtful authors; for, in several cases, where two authors of the same name were met with, they were found to have similar honorary titles. In the few instances where these titles could aid identification, they have been inserted. b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21920722_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
