A PENTAGLOT DICTIONARY OF THE TERMS EMPLOYED IN ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, PRACTICAL MEDICINE, &c. &c. &c. In Two Parts. Part I. With the leading Term in French, followed by the Synonymes in the Greek, Latin, German, and English, &c. &c. Part II. A German-English-French Dictionary, &c. &c. By SHIRLEY PALMER, M.D. 8vo. pp. 656, in double columns, small type. Longman & Co. 1841.

In this stupendous work we scarcely know which to admire most-the extensive erudition, or the unwearied, we might say super-human, labour of its author! Dr. Palmer may well exclaim with the Roman bard

"Exege monumentum Ære Perennius."

Johnson's Great Dictionary in four volumes cost not one-tenth the pains and research that Dr. P.'s Pentaglot must have done. Dr. Palmer will not be rewarded during his life time for the labour he has undergone, and the wear and tear of mind and body which he must have experienced in the construction of a book that might well be considered a hard task for a long life of literary drudgery in the study, free from every other avocation or pursuit. What then must have been the destructive toil by the midnight lamp, stolen from rest and sleep, during the compilation of this immense cyclopædia of dry technical terms, definitions, and derivations?

Any analysis, or even the most superficial review of such a performance would be preposterous. The only thing we can do is to take a specimen at random—a brick out of a majestic piece of architecture.

"ANEVRYSME, ANEURYSME, s. m.,—àvúguoμa (åvsugùvo, I dilate,)-aneurisma, aneurysma, n. L.,-aneurisma, anevrysma, n., Pulsadergeschwullst, f., die Erweiterung einer Arterie, G.,-aneurism, swelling, dilatation of an artery. Aneurism may be defined, a tumour, formed by arterial blood, from dilatation, rupture, or division, of the coats of an artery. The term has been also applied by some writers, to dilatation of the cavities of the heart, and even to enlargement of the organ from thickening of its parietes.

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Aneurism shews itself under three different forms: 1. that of true aneurism, ―vrai, F.,—aneurysma verum, L.,—das wahre Anevrysma, G.,-formed by dilatation, circumscribed or diffused, without breach, of all the coats of an artery. the former case, it constitutes the variety called circumscribed,--circonscrit,-circumscriptum,-umschriebene ;-in the latter, the diffused-diffus,-diffusum, ausgebreitete, of true aneurism: 2. false or spurious,-faux,-spurium, das falsche Anevrysma, formed by a breach of two or all of the arterial tunics, and presenting two varieties: the circumscribed, in which the blood escaping through a rupture of the internal and middle coats, converts the external coat of the vessel into an aneurismal sac ;-and the diffused,-where the external coat, also, has subsequently given way, and the blood been poured out into the surrounding cellular structure: 3. mixed aneurism,-mixte,-mistum,—das gemischte—which likewise comprehends two varieties; one, the internal, consisting of an hernialike protrusion of the internal, through a wound or rupture of the middle and external coats of an artery; and the other, external, produced by rupture of the dilated coats of true aneurism, and consequent diffusion of its contents through the circumjacent membrane.

Besides these principal forms, there is Aneurism by Anastomsis,—anévrysme par anastomose, F.,-das anastomotische anevrysma, G.,-apparently caused by aneurismal dilatation of the extreme vessels of a part, and extravasation of blood into the distended cells of the cellular structure."

We need hardly say that a work like this, which costs but a trifle, though the result of years of labour, should be in the hands of every student and practitioner who wishes to keep pace with the current of medical literature, and glean knowledge from foreign as well as domestic sources.

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