TY - BOOK AU - Dirckx, John H. TI - Stedman's concise: medical dictionary for the health professions SN - 0781730120 CY - Philadelphia PB - Lippinoctt Williams & Wilkins KW - Medicine dictionary N1 - Includes index N2 - When this book left the bindery, it was the latest addition to a family of medical dictionaries that can trace its linage further back than any other in any language. The first edition of Dunglison's New dictionary of medical Science and literature appeard in 1833, just five years after the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language. Robley Dunglison, M.D. (1789-1869), a native of England , was professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and served as personal physician to presidents Jefferson, Madison Monroe, and Jackson ER -