TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe story behind the word.
AU  - Bean WB
Y1  - 1959/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050164028
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 842
EP  - 842
VL  - 103
IS  - 5
N2  - The fascination words hold is never-ending. The fascination of medical words for a physician has been the theme of many a discourse, paper, and book. Wain turned his hobby of collecting lore about medical terms into a full-time effort. He has selected from almost innumerable medical terms those of particular interest, to tell us something of their derivation, the fun which comes from knowing about how a word got that way, and a chatty little essay about the words he has selected. We might call to question the importance of putting contemporary physicians in a book of less than six thousand entries, particularly when the selection seems to have been based on whimsey or a lack of insight into the real contributions of some included and some excluded. But then, a book of this kind has to be selective anyhow, and no two people would choose alike. The work is
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050164028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050164028
ER  -