{"id":125227,"date":"2024-07-16T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=125227"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:34:06","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-just-look-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=125227","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Just Look It Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=125227\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=125227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-125228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/preface-to-britannica.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/preface-to-britannica.png 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/preface-to-britannica-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook it up, dear,\u201d was something that I often heard as a child.<\/p>\n<p>I would ask a question of my parents beginning with \u201cwhy \u201cor \u201cwhat \u201cand be directed to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Those elegant red covered books occupied a lot of space on our shelves.<\/p>\n<p>My parents believed that if I looked something up, I was more likely to remember it. .<\/p>\n<p>Of course, like many other things, the encyclopedia is now digitized. I was doing some research in Britannica online, when those words \u201cEncyclopedia Britannica\u201d caused me to pause and reflect. I recalled the pleasant childhood hours of thumbing through its pages. I took this great work for granted. But now I wonder how the idea of creating a compilation of current knowledge began? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two gentlemen of Edinburgh, Colin Macfarquhar, a printer and bookseller and Andrew Bell, an engraver, felt the need for a new kind of encyclopedia. Their plan was to publish an Encyclopedia Britannica. This was the time of the intellectual excitement of the Scottish Enlightenment. From Britannica.com: \u201dScottish Enlightenment, the conjunction of minds, ideas, and publications in Scotland during the whole of the second half of the 18th century and extending over several decades on either side of that period. Contemporaries referred to Edinburgh as a \u201chotbed of genius.\u201d Macfarquhar and Bell planned Encyclopaedia Britannica, in which related topics were arranged into essays and the essays were then organized alphabetically.<\/p>\n<p>And so they hired William Smellie. a Scottish natural historian and publisher. With Smellie\u2019s background as a printer, editor, naturalist, antiquary, and University of Edinburgh lecturer in botany, he was a logical choice to compile the first edition. This massive undertaking appeared as a series of pamphlets of one hundred installments from 1768 to 1771.<\/p>\n<p>The first edition had quite a few inaccuracies such as an article on \u201cWoman\u201d which contained only four words; \u2018the female of man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smellie wrote almost the entire first edition by \u2018borrowing\u2019 from authors, such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire and Alexander Pope. He said that, \u201cI wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smellie refused to be involved with the second edition. For some bizarre reason, he objected to any sections on biographies.<\/p>\n<p>Smellie writes in the first edition preface, \u201cWe will, however, venture to affirm, that any man of ordinary parts, may, if he chuses, learn the principles of Agriculture, of Astronomy, of Botany of Chemistry, &amp;c. &amp;c. from the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I still look things up on line in Encyclopedia Britannica,<\/p>\n<p>But for an old curmudgeon it is just not as much fun.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nBitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<br \/>\nSERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist \u201cLook it up, dear,\u201d was something that I often heard as a child. 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