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Nov 20, 2024
great quality, handy to have 1/4 pint si...
great quality, handy to have 1/4 pint sizes for small items
Feb 07, 2009
Trying to keep up with medical literature
1 of 2 found this helpful Like it or not, the scientific community, and in particular that portion of it which deals in medicine, has its own language. In general there are two classes of people: those who have (or are dealing with) medical problems, and those who will eventually have them or have to deal with them, as with elderly relatives. Sooner or later, whether one is looking up information on the web or actually (imagine!) reading a medical text or article, he/she will encounter a confabulation of terminology that is hardly to be believed...or understood. Whether there has developed a body of terms that is involved in some sort of secret initiation of medical personnel (so that they can talk out loud in front of the patient without the patient understanding), or whether the terminology evolved from various Greek and Latin terms over the centuries and is necessary to describe and classify various conditions or structures accurately, is up for debate. Nevertheless, the terminology is rife, and to begin to understand what is being said, anyone who is dealing with medical literature is virtually obligated to have some sort of medical dictionary. There are some standard texts (Stedman's comes to mind), but by and large these are just about as expensive as that yearly deductible on your health insurance. I was fortunate to get a very good price on the Merriam-Webster version in question, having finally been driven to it by undertaking the reading of a two-volume set of books on kidney disease (for the purpose of my job as a biomedical researcher: you see that even we Ph.D.'s need these reference texts). Thus I have had the opportunity to test this particular dictionary in the field of battle, as it were; while it has not listed every term I have looked up, it has held its own quite well. I can't say that it has sped up the reading of the books in question, but at least I understand them better. If you can get a copy of this for under $15-20, I think it is well worth the purchase; as I said earlier, you will need it....eventually.
Jun 08, 2006
1940s weirdness was better than modern weirdness
Red Ingle was a sometimes associate of Spike Jones, as it turns out from the informative boilerplate that came with the CD, and true to that form he and his conspirators came up with some particularly offbeat (yet strangely unforgettable) numbers. I was an early boomer who grew up on a few 78 rpm offerings, played uncountable times to the growing disgust of my mother, things that included "The Drainpipe Song" by Dorothy Shay (also done decades later on a Cream album, by the way), "Laura" by the Spike Jones ensemble, "Don't go in the Lion's Cage Tonight" by Beatrice Kaye, and "Serutan Yob" by the Red Ingle bunch (a take-off on Nature Boy as probably made most popular to the straight crowd by Nat King Cole, if memory serves). The fact that I listed to them non-stop when a 3- or 4-year-old indelibly etched them in my engrams, and the fact that it drove my mother to distraction has only endeared them to me all the more all these years. Therefore it was with particularly evil glee that I found all these (and more) to be readily available on unopened LPs and/or CDs through various sources, notably eBay (where of course one can find most anything...but you knew that). The Red Ingle CD in particular is faithful (for the ones I remember)in terms of being the original recordings that I remember from the shellac-based recordings of long ago...but of course without the scratches or the whir of the 78-rpm speed. If you want to see how the "novelty" acts did it "back when," this is a good place to start.