The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-23
LATIN IN TEXAS.

In the weekly mortuary reports of San
Antonio, the Latin and Greek names of the
diseases are given. This is an excellent idea
If member of a family dies, it is consoling
to the survivors to read in the mortuary re-
port that it was not at all jaundice, but
icterus acutus febrils apaticus. Nobody
could reasonably expect to survive all that.
When person reads that, he is astonshed
that the patient did not die sooner and more
frequently. Again it fatters common folks
to read that some poor devil has died of dis
ease with name mile and a half long,
while in the very same mortuary report per-
haps some wealthy banker has been called
hence on disease of only two sylables
Over in San Antonio the people die of letter
us senilis, Of seven kinds of tuberculosis, of
icterus amenorrhcea, intestinalis pnlmonalis,
and five other kinds of icterus. They can
also die II they want to, of anenisma, colca
fiatulenta biliosa- particularly when compli-
Gated with atrapia medule spinalS or mar
asmus infantium, caused probably by too
much vox populi, nux vomica, pluribus
unum, ETC., particularly etc. Nobody in San
Antonio asks How is your prickly heat
coming ont" The Almo citizen asks: How
is your eczema solare coming on ?" to which
the sufferer replies, Much better thank
You, it was not the regular eczema solare at
all, but only eczema impetigion oides, com
plicated little with chloasma ephelis"
Nothing is more common than to hear even
colored people conversing somewhat in the
following style +" / say Uncle Nose, hows
your chile comm on2 I heered yer was up
all night wild it, that it had de wussest kind
OBJ peretonitis oh de mucous membrane mix
ed up wild yomitus chronicus, and a misery
in de chist." To this Uncle Nose responds
"De chile has done got ober all dat, but dis
mornin' hit was all broke out wild epilepsia
thoracica, bat has strong hopes OBJ hits
gettin' well eff laryngostenose don't sot in.
Use had tech myself oh de rheumatismus
paralyticus runnin up my leg, but jess
knocked de stiffness out OBJ hit wild Buffers
liniment" Not long since, in CHANGING over
the San Antonio papers, we were surprised
to read that somebody for the first time in
many years, had died of an ineligible malady.
~ ActteiS tilht WI. Plhih, uHcQ tuIty-blAt
malarial intoxication" Jess SO. That's
plain enough Mr. BLINK, while suffering
from malaria tried to cure it with sour-mash
whiskey, and between the malaria and the
remedy the poor man failed to survive II
was great source of satisfaction to us to
know precisely what one person in San An
tonic really did die Of II was not of too
much gastroataxia saburralis, or even of
hsematernesis, or of cardia podogracia, or
any of those ordinary modes of shutting of
the mortal coil, but simply malarial intoxica-
ton. Our satisfaction that people over at
San Antonio had returned to the old-fashion-
ed diseases was of short duration, for the
very next day our eyes were rivited in their
sockets by card from DIR. Menger, the city
physician, in the San Antonio Eoeai,lg
Light, saying: "The technical meaning of
the term in this case is not intoxication
nor 'toxicohamia,' but toxicoh@mia,' from
the Greek or Latin toxikon Ia poison, and
'haema blood. - TerGs Sifliags.