Abstract
This article explores the presence of words related to the body and medicine in Johnson’s Dictionary and proves that as to physick – actually the word medicine indicated remedies rather than the discipline – it was encyclopaedic but not prescriptive.It considers medicine from a cultural point of view rather than biographical in order to set the technicalities of the lexicon and the discipline into a broader intellectual perspective. It focuses exclusively on the Dictionary to discuss ideas about science and the need for order, recognition and classification which lexicography shares with it.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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pagine (da-a) | 107-130 |
Numero di pagine | 24 |
Rivista | TEXTUS |
Volume | 19 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2006 |
Keywords
- Dictionary
- Early modern
- History of medicine
- Johnson
- Lexicography