The Hadassah Hospital at Haifa has decided to ask Dr. Caul Tchernikowsky, the famous Hebrew poet, who is also a medical man, to take up the position of Director of the Hospital.
About a month ago, Dr. Tchernikowsky took over the work of completing the Hebrew Dictionary of Medicine and Natural Science started by the late Dr. Mazia and interrupted by his death about two years ago.
Dr. Tchernikowsky, who settled in Palestine a few months ago, has explained that in Dr. Mazia’s collection of 5,000 books there were volumes mainly medical, in which he had marked the words which he intended should go into the dictionary. The words will be written in Latin and the explanation in Hebrew Dr. Tchernikowsky said, and it is anticipated that between forty and fifty thousand medical terms will be elucidated.
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