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Black leather-bound book with black endpapers and tabbed index, published 1949. A modern comprehensive dictionary of the terms used in all branches of medicine and allied sciences, including medical physics and chemistry, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary medicine, zoology and botany, as well as medicolegal terms; with illustrations and tables. 252 illustrations on 45 plates, 129 in colour. Pp. xxviii+1294, 45 plates (27 coloured in whole or part), appendix; leather, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges blue, with gilt lettered alphabetical thumb holes; |