M. Elie Col De Vilars - Dictionnaire françois-latin des termes de médecine et de chirurgie - 1759

Rare edition of this lexicographic work, conceived in the mid-18th century, which addresses the need to accurately fix and translate medical and surgical vocabulary, offering practitioners and scholars a bilingual tool that connects the French language to Latin scholarly traditions.

Each term is defined, explained, and accompanied by its Latin equivalent, allowing the circulation of knowledge between daily practice and the scientific literature inherited from antiquity and the Middle Ages.

This dictionary reflects the effort of standardization and rationalization of medical language, in a context where terminological precision was essential for the transmission of knowledge and communication among practitioners from different traditions.

It thus embodies an important step in the history of medical lexicography, establishing a corpus of terms that links French practice to the authority of Latin, and reflecting the Enlightenment's desire to codify, organize, and make scientific knowledge universal.

M. Elie Col De Vilars - French-Latin Dictionary of Medical and Surgical Terms - 1759 - Delespine
352 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, book in its original full brown calf leather, showing signs of use, missing lower spine, worn corners and edges, red edges, ornamented spine, gilded titling on a piece of morocco.

Good interior condition, minor stains especially on the title page, marbled endpapers.

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