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• W4205836022 abstract "Health& History• 8/2 • 2006 183 medical history of alcoholism. CAROLINE CLARK TURNING POINTALCOHOLAND DRUG CENTRE Medicine in Quotations: Viewsof Health and Disease Throughthe Ages, 2ndedition. Edited by Edward J. Huth and T. Jock Murray. (American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 2006, ISBN 1930513 -67-4). 581 pp + xvi. 'Much of the pleasure of life,' said my old anatomy professor, 'comes from the filling and emptying of hollow viscera.' Was Graeme Schofield the first to utter this neurophysiological truth? I can't be absolutely sure (neither, forty years later, can he), but it was certainly memorable and starteda life-long interest in medical quotations. I therefore took up Medicine in Quotations with an expectation of much enjoyment, an expectation which was indeed met. The first edition of this book, now a standard work, was published in 2000 and contained 3099 quotes. The second has about450 more, allowing for the inclusion of recent or overlooked material. This is part of an ongoing search, and the editors solicit quotations for a third edition.1 They modestly add the proviso 'in the event that it is called for,' but they can be reassured on this point. The quotations are of several types- normal human states and milestones; descriptions of disease, their discovery and investigation; and the perceptions of doctors, nurses, and patients of these diseases and of each other. Comparison will be made with Strauss's Familiar Medical Quotations, which appeared in 1968.2 It is also organised thematically, rather than by author. Edward J. Huth, one of the editors of the present publication, was on the advisory board of the earlierone. It is quite clear thatthe books are, and were always meant to be, complementary volumes. The earliervolume contains about twice the number of medical quotations as the later one, which has more emphasis on the original description of disease and quotations from the 1970s onwards. Voltaire was cited seventeen times by Strauss,but only once by HuthandMurray.It is important 184 BOOKREVIEWS for librariansto realise this, to avoid the trapof discarding the old when the new appears. It is always more difficult for the editors of a dictionary of quotations to decide what is to be left out, ratherthan what is to be put in. Historians may find it a pity that some quotations are linked only to secondary sources, and that all non-English quotes are given only in translation. The original will nearly always be listed in Garrison and Morton's book, however, to which the editors refer.3The 'Notes to Readers' chapter addresses these and other problems. Any quibbles areminor and deal with style ratherthancontent. It has been decided to follow the modern habit of doing away with the possessive case when using eponyms- Paget Disease rather than Paget's Disease, for example. I can see the reason behind this- to try to emphasise that osteitis deformans is the disease Paget described, ratherthan the one from which he suffered- but I still find it jarringly ungrammatical. Secondly, the book could do with some cross-referencing. For example, John Stone's quote about interns needing the heart of a lion, the eye of an eagle, and the hand of a woman is so clearly derived from John Halle's quote about the properties requiredby a successful surgeon, half a book away, thatthereadershould have been told. Parenthetically,Richard Gordon, in yet another quote, has a medical student add a fourth desideratum: 'the commercial morals of a Levantine usurer.' The function of the book is to provide a ready reference for medical professionals (rather than the general public) which is comprehensive andinteresting.All of uswill findsome old favourites and lots of new ones. There are fourteen citations of Croatian proverbs sprinkled through the book, for example, none of which 1 had encountered before. These are great for speeches. Others, such as Whitby's description of the activity of 2-(p-aminobenzene sulphonamide) pyridine against pneumococci of types I, II, III, V, VII and VIII, provide interesting and useful information, but can hardly be dropped into general conversation. The currententhusiasm for evidence-based medicine made me look for Archie Cochrane. He is cited a dozen times, my favourite being his observation that scientific writing..." @default.
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