TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacNalty,Arthur Salusbury
AU  - Critchley,Macdonald
TI  - Butterworths medical dictionary
SN  - 040700193x
PY  - 1978///
CY  - London, Boston
PB  - Butterworths
KW  - Medicine
N2  - 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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