Background
Howe, Herbert Marshall was born on March 21, 1912 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Wallis Eastburn and Mary Emily (Locke) Howe.
(Since no American medical school now requires a knowledge...)
Since no American medical school now requires a knowledge of Latin or Greek of its applicants for admission, students are faced with the necessity of learning a large vocabulary without much linguistic background. The words they must know are, of course, defined in medical dictionaries; but these are formidable volumes, useful mainly for reference. For many years the University of Wisconsin has offered a course in terminology for undergraduates who expect to enter medicine, which has resulted in a considerable saving of time in the crowded first years of medical school. This book is the fruit of the authors' experience in teaching that course, and is designed to present, in as brief and convenient a form as possible, the most common Greek and Latin words whose derivatives are important in the study of medicine.
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"The first part of this book contains about a thousand common Greek and Latin words used in coining scientific meanings...In the second part of this book are exercises, lists of words formed from the vocabulary given in Part I."
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Howe, Herbert Marshall was born on March 21, 1912 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Wallis Eastburn and Mary Emily (Locke) Howe.
Graduate, St. George's School, 1930; Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1934; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1948.
Teacher, Latin, biology, Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, 1934-1940; Latin, history, Pomfret (Connecticut) School, 1942-1948; faculty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1948-1982; professor classics, University of Wisconsin, 1956-1982; department chairman, University of Wisconsin, 1954-1968; chairman, Integrated Liberal Studies, 1975-1980.
(Since no American medical school now requires a knowledge...)
("The first part of this book contains about a thousand co...)
Member American Philological Association, American Institute Archaeology, Logos.
Married Evelyn Grace Mitchell, September 6, 1941. Children— Evelyn Mitchell, Herbert Marshall, Emily Judson.