„Token: A Journal of English Linguistics”, V. 8

Contents

Giovanni Iamartino and Irma Taavitsainen,  Introduction ……….5

Giovanni Iamartino and Giulia Rovelli,  A Physical Dictionary of 1655: When translating medical science is not enough …………..9

Lucia Berti, Italy and the Royal Society: Medical papers in the early Philosophical Transactions ………… 31

Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez, The medical entries in John Kersey’s abridged Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708) or how to retain highly demanded lexical material in a short dictionary…………61

Victoria Domínguez-Rodríguez, An overview of medical terminology in Nathan Bailey’s An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721)………. 83

Elisabetta Lonati, Stabilising the scientific lexicon in eighteenth-century British encyclopaedias and specialised dictionaries: A focus on medical terminology…………     107

Magdalena Zabielska, “I resolved to cut. But there was before my eyes the fear of haemorrhage.” Subjective, emotional    and author-centred discourse of the late nineteenth-century case reports in the British Medical Journal  ………….  143

Anna Franca Plastina, Case reporting: A historical discourse analysis of the functional uses of if-conditionals in Medical-Officer-of-Health reports   …………….   167

Kim Grego, From “dying well” to “inducing a good death”: Euthanasia in the British press (1864-1949)  ………….191

K.AARON SMITH and SUSAN M. KIM, This Language, A River: A History of English, Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2018, 360 pp. (Reviewed by Felicia Jean Steele)……. 215

JULIA SCHULTZ,  The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801: A Lexical Investigation, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, xi + 314 pp. (Reviewed by José A. Sánchez Fajardo) ………..219