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One fact of genealogical life is encountering ancient or out-of-date terminology in the documents of our ancestors. Such problems arise when examining documents such as court cases, mortality records, letters, family Bibles, and so forth. This work, which is perhaps better known as Dunglison's Medical Dictionary (orignally published in 1868), gives researchers a leg up on pre-Civil War medical terminology.

The Medical Lexicon is far more than a dictionary, however, as it provides researchers a wide range of medical information as it was known at the end of the Civil War. Among the many areas of terminology included here are anatomy, chemistry, herbal medicine, and pharmacology. Latin and French forms of many words are given, and Latin and Greek etymologies also appear frequently.

Many of the medicines and medical conditions covered by this volume have multiple names, sometimes dozens, in England, French, and Latin. Each of these names appears in its proper place in the alphabet, with a cross-reference to the appropriate main entry, where one finds not only the definition but a complete compilation of all the variant names.

This CD is fully searchable and self-contained, requiring no additional installation. It can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.