Quartermaster James Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Stumbled over this and thought some might find it interesting: 350251531013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedJessi Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 WOW. That is incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael Misson Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 (edited) Ah, Latin. I must say I now officially hate Latin. It's not really Latin's fault per se - it's really quite innocent in all this. It's the fault of the period surgeons who abbreviate and misspell it. Repeatedly and randomly. Incidentally, if you don't need to own the original docs but would like to get hold of period medical discourses written by period surgeons -some of them even sea surgeons- you can find shloads of books and short subjects in pdf form using on-line databases. You usually have to go to university libraries to get access to them, but where there's a will, there's a way. I have several memory sticks full of books and docs that I thought sounded interesting. (Until I started reading them and encountering all that sloppy Latin.) Edited September 21, 2009 by Raphael Misson “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedJessi Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 It's just the fact that it is a handwritten manuscript. Just makes me all sorts of curious about the person that wrote it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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