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FINE WORDS IN MEDICINE.
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kophosis, paracousia, and dysecoea. The first two I comprehended at once ; but I had A CORRESPONDENT, who at first appended fairly to turn over my Greek Lexicon before his name, but subsequently changed his I could get to the bottom (or root) of the CASE OF JAMES TUCKETT.
I
forwarded ish, following remarks
to
the 19th inst. the last. Some of the case reported in
us on
on
our
Irish brethren
are
particu-
fond of this sort of
larly thing, using outTHE LANCET, the I have read interest case with great landish expressions. Thus, one man uses " The James Tuckett. of patient, although the French word clti-onicity for duration, an under a most extraordinary dis- opposite sense for an opposite direction ; ’suffering to fifty gallons another speaks of a pulse of a dicrotous he says charge, amounting at
page 828:-
faring a period of
five years,
yet has lost in character; a third talks of consensual actions, instead of consentaneous, and of retro-peritoneal cellular tissue, when he means the
comparison little flesh ; he eats, drinks, and bleeps well, which symptoms give hope that something may be done. My idea is, that
tissue behind the
notwithstanding the
peritoneum.
When one man wishes to express the taking of food, he cannot find a shorter way of doing it than the " ingestion of aliment ;" and another, in long-winded phrase, tells us that his patient 11 desires to micturate;" another lengthens the shortening of tendons by calling it contractation; and a gentlemen of considerable ophthalmic repu-
free communication beand the opening in the chest,
tween the lungs an attempt might be made, by means of pumping air into the chest with a bellows, the nozzle of which fits the canula, and from the consequent compression adhesion of the abscesses in the lungs might ensue ; a small
to be fitted afterwards to the canula, operation to be repeated as often a tation cures near-sighted persons of their convenient or necessary. At the same time defect by means of an instrument with the a vicarious discharge should be instituted b3 euphonious and sesquipedalian appellation ! One would almeans of a seton, inserted either in the loin: ; of the myopaocliorthoticon A generous diet to b( most think that these gentlemen agreed with or nape of the neck. kept up. The idea of endeavouring to col the diplomatist who gave it as his opinion, lapse the lung, by admitting air through m that " the use of language was to conceal opening made in the chest, originated, I be our thoughts."
plug This
.
.
American surgeon, as a cur Hoping that you, the editors above-named, lieve, for phthisis : of course the pus is to be wel will find room to copy these few lines, and discharged previously to each application o f add some remarks of your own, to give them the bellows." weight; I am, Gentlemen, your obedient with
an
servant, A PLAIN MAN.
FINE WORDS IN MEDICINE. To the Editor of THELANCET.
SIR,—Will
you
permit
me
to
present
APPOINTMENTS AT YARMOUTH. to
To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,—I wish to caution your young readers from wasting their time and money in obtaining the licence of the Apothecaries’ Company. Some time since, in consequence of two persons commencing practice without their licence, we called upon the company either to grant us protection, or leave off extracting a certain sum from each licentiate, under the plea of protecting- him. But to neither of these things did the worshipful company attend ; yet the Government have just appointed one of those persons to take charge of their sick seamen at Yarmouth, thus plainly showing the little value it atlanguages, wishing apparently to impress us taches to the licence. Surely after this the with the idea that they converse so much !I man who strives to obtain the licence from with the ancients, that they have forgotten the hall has more money than wit. A meetthat they live in these degenerate days. Now ing of the profession is, I believe, about all this appears to me to be either mere being called by one of the leading members, affectation or excessive carelessness. There to consider what steps ought to be adopted is nothing almost in all that we medical men in consequence of the Government thus achave to say, which cannot be expressed in cepting the non-licensed men. I am, Sir, the copious stores of our own language. Let your very obedient servant, A LICENTIATE WHO SETS NO VALU& me give you a few examples. In a late excellent work on the ear, three UPON THE LICENCE.
the editors of the " Medico-Chirurgical Review" a few remarks on the style of the medical literature of the present day, with which I think they will agree. We laugh at the Americanisms, as we term them, which we see copied from the Yankee newspapers, but as great faults are daily committed among our own medical authors. Many of the writers in our periodicals, and even in some of our larger works, seem to have their heads so filled with French and German words and phrases, that they have quite forgotten their native English. Some there are, too, who affect the use of strange words derived or adopted from the learned
species
of deafness
are
distinguished,
as,
Yarmouth, March 15,
1842.
kophosis, paracousia, and dysecoea. The first two I comprehended at once ; but I had A CORRESPONDENT, who at first appended fairly to turn over my Greek Lexicon before his name, but subsequently changed his I could get to the bottom (or root) of the CASE OF JAMES TUCKETT.
I
forwarded ish, following remarks
to
the 19th inst. the last. Some of the case reported in
us on
on
our
Irish brethren
are
particu-
fond of this sort of
larly thing, using outTHE LANCET, the I have read interest case with great landish expressions. Thus, one man uses " The James Tuckett. of patient, although the French word clti-onicity for duration, an under a most extraordinary dis- opposite sense for an opposite direction ; ’suffering to fifty gallons another speaks of a pulse of a dicrotous he says charge, amounting at
page 828:-
faring a period of
five years,
yet has lost in character; a third talks of consensual actions, instead of consentaneous, and of retro-peritoneal cellular tissue, when he means the
comparison little flesh ; he eats, drinks, and bleeps well, which symptoms give hope that something may be done. My idea is, that
tissue behind the
notwithstanding the
peritoneum.
When one man wishes to express the taking of food, he cannot find a shorter way of doing it than the " ingestion of aliment ;" and another, in long-winded phrase, tells us that his patient 11 desires to micturate;" another lengthens the shortening of tendons by calling it contractation; and a gentlemen of considerable ophthalmic repu-
free communication beand the opening in the chest,
tween the lungs an attempt might be made, by means of pumping air into the chest with a bellows, the nozzle of which fits the canula, and from the consequent compression adhesion of the abscesses in the lungs might ensue ; a small
to be fitted afterwards to the canula, operation to be repeated as often a tation cures near-sighted persons of their convenient or necessary. At the same time defect by means of an instrument with the a vicarious discharge should be instituted b3 euphonious and sesquipedalian appellation ! One would almeans of a seton, inserted either in the loin: ; of the myopaocliorthoticon A generous diet to b( most think that these gentlemen agreed with or nape of the neck. kept up. The idea of endeavouring to col the diplomatist who gave it as his opinion, lapse the lung, by admitting air through m that " the use of language was to conceal opening made in the chest, originated, I be our thoughts."
plug This
.
.
American surgeon, as a cur Hoping that you, the editors above-named, lieve, for phthisis : of course the pus is to be wel will find room to copy these few lines, and discharged previously to each application o f add some remarks of your own, to give them the bellows." weight; I am, Gentlemen, your obedient with
an
servant, A PLAIN MAN.
FINE WORDS IN MEDICINE. To the Editor of THELANCET.
SIR,—Will
you
permit
me
to
present
APPOINTMENTS AT YARMOUTH. to
To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,—I wish to caution your young readers from wasting their time and money in obtaining the licence of the Apothecaries’ Company. Some time since, in consequence of two persons commencing practice without their licence, we called upon the company either to grant us protection, or leave off extracting a certain sum from each licentiate, under the plea of protecting- him. But to neither of these things did the worshipful company attend ; yet the Government have just appointed one of those persons to take charge of their sick seamen at Yarmouth, thus plainly showing the little value it atlanguages, wishing apparently to impress us taches to the licence. Surely after this the with the idea that they converse so much !I man who strives to obtain the licence from with the ancients, that they have forgotten the hall has more money than wit. A meetthat they live in these degenerate days. Now ing of the profession is, I believe, about all this appears to me to be either mere being called by one of the leading members, affectation or excessive carelessness. There to consider what steps ought to be adopted is nothing almost in all that we medical men in consequence of the Government thus achave to say, which cannot be expressed in cepting the non-licensed men. I am, Sir, the copious stores of our own language. Let your very obedient servant, A LICENTIATE WHO SETS NO VALU& me give you a few examples. In a late excellent work on the ear, three UPON THE LICENCE.
the editors of the " Medico-Chirurgical Review" a few remarks on the style of the medical literature of the present day, with which I think they will agree. We laugh at the Americanisms, as we term them, which we see copied from the Yankee newspapers, but as great faults are daily committed among our own medical authors. Many of the writers in our periodicals, and even in some of our larger works, seem to have their heads so filled with French and German words and phrases, that they have quite forgotten their native English. Some there are, too, who affect the use of strange words derived or adopted from the learned
species
of deafness
are
distinguished,
as,
Yarmouth, March 15,
1842.