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and is made more appropriate by the gut
tural gh, cultural being from guttur,
throat, a term appearing in goitre-
Hopping cough, not whooping cough,
OF this class, but it is not so with the
Latin name, pertussis, per, In Latin, be-
ing a word that intensifies the meaning,
while tuSSie means a cough.
Some terms are derived from their func-
ton, as the oseophagus. Greek, eiso, fu-
ture of the verb phero, to bear, and
phagein. to eat; but the stomach is not
one of these; that Is a long ways off
Other terms are derived from their
proXimate location as parotitis, the
mumps, from parotis, curl by the side
of the ear, queerly twisted term for
the parotid gland; while coryZa is from
the Greek koryza, from korse, the side
of the head.
Abdomen is from the Latin ABIDE to put
away, to conceal, and within It, intus
Greek for within, are the intestines, de.
rived from the root intus; while sur
rounding the cavity is the peritoneum,
from peri, around, and teine, to stretch
Localities also give their names to dis
eases, as Derbyshire neck for goitre, be-
cause that disease was common in that
district; and Devonshire collie for lead
poisoning, because those who INDUCED
too freely in Devonshire cider were thus
afflicted, due either to a salt of lead pur-
posely put in the beverage to sweeten it
or to contamination by lead used in the
watts and presses
There is a prefix, dys from the Greek
word meaning bad, i'll, ETC., which plays
the very deuce in medical nomenclature
and has the very opposite effect upon
words in combination to that of the Greek
word ell, which is a good word The die
tionary even takes note of this and has
a word euloglStic which everybody knows
and appreciates while Its opposite is
dyslogistic. speaking i'll of one
The upsilon of the Greek changes to v
in English and the word dye is no rela-
ton to dis of the Latin. Disease, for ex-
ample, is a InongreI sort of a word from
the Latin dis, away from, and the old
French aiSe, ease.
Still dys always brings disaster with it.
but disaster itself is free from the Latin
dis. and astrum, star, a reference to
the belief that the stars control the desti-
MES of man.
There is q word however, DISASTER,
to class OF echinoids or star fish of an
irregular shape, bad star-fish, so to
speak, but only in their shape, star-fsh
Of irregular form, but not irregular hab-
it's.
This Inflated term appears in many
medical terms, some of but rare use
Dyspnooa, for example, difficulty of
breathing, is a combination of dys with
pnce, breath. Apnoea is lack of breath
and asthma is from ae, to blow, referr-
ing to symptom of shortness of breath
a general term not always applied to
true asthma when used by the public
Dysteleology, from teIes, end, and leges,
a word, is a term invented by Prof
Haeskel, Of Jena, to designate the APP
parent purposelessness Of rudimentary
and apparently useless structures These
who believe the appendix vermiformis
is one Of these structures are disciples
of this ology.
The word might also be aptly applied
to many of the terms in medicine which
simply encumbcr the dictionaries and
make the doctor himself guess when he
sees them astray:. Some terms too,
might be changed to advantage if it
wouldn't make so much confusion, for
they have long outgroWn their useful.