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>From: [log in to unmask] (Hugh de Glanville)
>Subject: Re: Re: Menieres
>
>>Patrick - which spelling of Meniere do you regard as correct?
>>(I don't think any of us have browsers which show accents properly so one
>>has to spell them out)
>>
>>
>>Hugh de Glanville,[log in to unmask],Internet wrote at 10:12 am on 4/12/96
>>about "Re: Menieres":
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>>>>Prosper Meniere, 1799-1862 Physician, Institute for the deaf and dumb,
>>>>Paris. Described his eponymous condition in 1861.
>>>>
>>>>The middle e has a grave accent.
>>>>
>>>>Source: Bailey and Love's short practice of surgery. One of the best books
>>
>>>>
>>>>Someone should tell B&L's successors about the acute accent on the first e
>>>too.
>>>
>>>Seigneur Lurkere (grave on first e)
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>>H K Lewis and Co London, publishers.
>>Mr Rains, then (and likely now) of the (then " ", now "Royal") London
>>Hospital edited my copy.
>>Page 538 17th edition.
>>
>>the Unibooks a short textbook Ear Nose and Throat (2nd edition) gives the
>>same spelling three times and in the index.
>>
>>Glaxo's freeby book "a dictionary of medical and surgical sybdromes" 1992
>>Gibson and Potparic (with an acute on the c) gives it as having both accents.
>>
>>none of the ENT surgeons in Exeter have an e-mail address so I rang one,
>>he says Scott-Brown - the standard large reference book on ear diseases -
>>gives it as only one accent grave on middle e
>>
>>he does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
>>
>>Obvious next step, enquire in France.
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>Surgeons, forsooth! As well ask . . .
>Two accents in:
>Stedman's Dictionary (Americans, forsooth!)
>Oxford Companion to Medicine (Lord Walton, Stephen Lock)
>Oxford Textbook of Medicine ditto (well they would, wouldn't they?)
>
>Lurkeur ancien
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