Vademecum is a Latin phrase for a handbook. In medicine, the concept of Vademecum applied to medicines and other pharma products. In modern times, the term extended to digital health products, using the word Vadimecum (with "di" instead of "de").
Vademecum or vade mecum may also refer to:
Raphael Finkel is an American computer scientist and a retired professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid was a Polish poet, dramatist, painter, sculptor, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the four most important Polish Romantic poets, though scholars still debate whether he is more aptly described as a late romantic or an early modernist.
Joseph Miller was an English actor, who first appeared in the cast of Sir Robert Howard's Committee at Drury Lane in 1709 as Teague.
A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference. The term originally applied to a small or portable book containing information useful for its owner, but the Oxford English Dictionary defines the current sense as "any book ... giving information such as facts on a particular subject, guidance in some art or occupation, instructions for operating a machine, or information for tourists."
William Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.
Jean de Roquetaillade, also known as John of Rupescissa, was a French Franciscan alchemist and eschatologist.
Fernand Serrane (1880–1932) was a Belgian philatelist who was a popular philatelic author in France and published one of the classic works in the field of identifying forged stamps.
A Sertoli cell nodule is a benign proliferation of Sertoli cells that arises in association with cryptorchidism. They are not composed of a clonal cell population, i.e. neoplastic; thus, technically, they should not be called an adenoma.
John Johnson, of Cranbrook (1662–1725) was an English clergyman, known as a theologian in the Laudian tradition.
Samuel Gotthold Lange was a German writer.
Robert Hooper (1773–1835) was a British physician, known as a medical writer.
Glenn Jones is an American guitarist, He is most recognized for his work in the experimental rock group Cul de Sac.
Vade Mecum is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
Vade Mecum II is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
Events in the year 1938 in Belgium.
Laetitia Jermyn (1788–1848) was a British entomologist, illustrator and author. She was mentored by William Kirby, to whom she dedicated her best remembered work: The Butterfly Collector’s Vade Mecum, meaning 'ready reference'.
Vademecum filipino o manual de conversación familiar español-tágalog is a classic Spanish-language textbook for learning the Tagalog language by Venancia María de Abelli, first published in 1868. It is one of the oldest works of this type.
Berlin Abbozzi is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon recorded at the "Podewil", the headquarters of the Kulturprojekte Berlin non-profit organisation, in 1999 and released in 2000 on the FMP label. The album features a two-part hour-long Dixon composition followed by a free improvisation. Dixon is heard on trumpet and flugelhorn, and is accompanied by Matthias Bauer and Klaus Koch on bass, and Tony Oxley on drums. This instrumental combination previously appeared on the Dixon albums November 1981, Vade Mecum, and Vade Mecum II.
Thomas Brugis was an English surgeon.
Vade-mecum is the most important collection of poetry by Cyprian Kamil Norwid.