[LMB] AKICOL: OT: Old medical terms glossary?

Tracy MacShane trix at queerscience.net
Sun Jan 21 09:40:30 GMT 2007


I'm sticking this on my Livejournal as well, so feel free to reply there
if you have an account. Or not, even. :-)

Does anyone know of an online glossary of medical terms and common drug
names in pre-20th Century usage? 

It's not for me, since I know plenty - it's one area I'm geeky on in the
historical sense - it's more that if there's a gap, I think it'd be a
fun one for me to fill. While it's easy enough to do a search for
prussic acid online and find MSDSes for hydrogen cyanide, or learn what
lancets were used for, I think some cross-referencing would be groovy,
as well as some background information on the
drugs/procedures/instruments concerned.

Of course, if it's been done, no point reinventing the wheel. 

Thanks!

Tracy



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