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Lexicography and Physicke equivolume * The book’s concise arrangementMedical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. McConchie examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1547 and 1612, and compares it with treatment of these words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries of today, showing how well or ill the specialist terminology of sixteenth century medical practitioners has been