Butterworths medical dictionary. edited by Arthur Salusbury MacNalty.
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TextPublication details: London ; Boston : Butterworths, 1978. Edition: 2d ed. editor-in-chief, Macdonald CritchleyDescription: xxxii, 1942 p. : 28 cm. illISBN: 040700193xSubject(s): MedicineNLM classification: W 13 CM 1978Summary: The duties of lexicographer are arduous and exacting, but at the same time seductive, especially to one who nurse a curious fascination for words in all their vagaries. Dr. Johnson defined a lexicographer as a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, Drudge he may be , and certainly harmless. Indeed he is in many ways as vulnerable as an unwinged housefly. His duty entail the coaxing and cajoling of cooperating co-authors amny of them eager, others reluctant. Among the former some prove infirm of purpose. To quote Johnson again- for he was in a position to know - "the promise of authors are like the vows of lovers; made in moment of careless rapture, and subject, during the long process of fulfillment, to all kinds of unforeseen dangers and difficulties".
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The duties of lexicographer are arduous and exacting, but at the same time seductive, especially to one who nurse a curious fascination for words in all their vagaries. Dr. Johnson defined a lexicographer as a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, Drudge he may be , and certainly harmless. Indeed he is in many ways as vulnerable as an unwinged housefly. His duty entail the coaxing and cajoling of cooperating co-authors amny of them eager, others reluctant. Among the former some prove infirm of purpose. To quote Johnson again- for he was in a position to know - "the promise of authors are like the vows of lovers; made in moment of careless rapture, and subject, during the long process of fulfillment, to all kinds of unforeseen dangers and difficulties".
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