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Book review
The Oxford dictionary of medical quotations
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P McDonald, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, £25.00 (hardback), pp 212. ISBN 0-19-263047-4
There are Oxford dictionaries of practically everything but not until now of medical quotations. The literary minded doctor need no longer be limited to the 15 or so entries in the regular Oxford University Press Dictionary of quotations when searching for something with which to get started a medical thesis, or display learning at lectures to rotaries clubs on the short arm of chromosome 6. Here are corralled all the most apt aphorisms an after dinner medical speaker should want. Or are they? …