Medical terms owe very much to their revision by Dr Alexander Lyall.
While any benefit to be derived from the vocabulary must be credited to its original author, Mr Lechler, enough has been changed and added to remove from him all responsibility for its mistakes and faults.
It may be confessed that one motive for printing this vocabulary was the hope of raising some funds for the support of the Mission Press, most of its work being unremunerative.
English Presbyterian Mission, William Duffus.
Swatow—July, 1883.
