The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-19
might make tuberole.


DIABETES, which implies the presence Of
sugar in the urine. VIXEN usel ~, 49,
people mas no iutmlti0u Of sugar I'M fte
root. 1t Is from the Creek d,a thr5YefI
ana Dalho, TO pass; in O.her words it r.
sort OF urinary diarrhoea This word
peing from the Greek. ola, through ana
iHeo' 10 flow, the latter roo. a1D4arfns
III catarrh. In combination with lsafa
meaning Gown, tn entire word m..tnfne
10 HOW down IN rheumatism the wor-I
again appears, meaning flow or aux
ana the term rheum alone Is used In
Frehch TO designate cold I'm the head
EplstaXis (nosebleed) from cpl. uDon. and
stazo, 10 drop, is another of these words
that have no refer nee to the charao+el.
OF the thing which passes through or
drops and might be simple functions
were 1t not for the bad COMPANY i'm which
they find themselves.
A Jaundiced man or a jaundiced thing Is
of yellOWish tinge in fact. the word "a
derived from the Lain galEus. meaning.
yellow This, like others mentioned is N
word describing symptom, 10. q
disease All the color5 OF The rainbow
Qrls) have a pace n medical nomen-
cIature Rubeola German measles) is
IRON the Latin ruber red while q rub--
faclent IS something that makes red. tho
root laclo, to make, occurring fra many
other compounds descriptive of drugs
Erysipelas IS from the Greek word mean
ing a redncss Of the skin. and ervtherra.
IS also a Creek word with the same
meaning, from eruthOs, red. Purpra, a
Latin name for certain mollurc5 yelling
q purple dye, and hence used FOR The
dye and color itself, has crept from the
dye works into works Of medf-f.e. CO.
ing back to jaundl there is a word
from the Greek sometimes used TO tbs
disease derived from TIE Greek icterus,
and icteria ~
yellowish green bird, by looking at which
a jaundiced person would be cured, but
the bird died
Other words have been chosen from n
fancied resemblance to certain well
known objects Ascites ca form Of
dropsy) is from the Greek word meaning
a leathern bottle and by a strange CO
incidence the bottle may lead to dropsy
Bowel is from the Latin botellus. a lit
tie sausage; trichina is from the Greek
thrix, hair taenia 0ape worm) is
from the Greek tainia band or ribbon;
while verruca, a wart, is a steep place
or height.
The thymUs gland receives it's name
from the Greek thyme, an herb. from
thuo, to sacrifice referring u the use
OF thyme on affairs and its aroma. rhs
gland having a fancied resemblance to
the flowers Of thyme was named ccor5.
lnSly. Flowers are quite common il
popular and technical language and in
English the words explain themselves.
in the Latin efIioTescence the meaning
is clear, but in eXanthemata, an erup-
ton. the meaning is not so clear, the
word being from eX. out, and antheO, TO
blossom, the term being applied To such
cruptions as appear during the course OF
certain fevers.
Coma, a Greek word. means deep slum-
Der, and is cOgnate with lleima to lie
outstretched, both descriptive OF
marked symptom Of coma or iuscnsibil-
ity, but coma Berenice is Berenfee]9
hair, an astrological term that has Moth
ing to do with medicine although astrol-
ogy was once a part Of medical lore. III
fact there are some people who stu pin
their faith to a star and even IN Tnedi-
cal language the evidence OF the old5n
belief still remains In the word Iunatic,
from tSe Latin luna the moon, the
superstitiOus belief once being that II
one should sleep exposed to the moons
rays he or she would be moonstruck,
that is lunatic. The milky way with
its multitude Of stars never had any
especial place in medicine, but in the
galaxy Of medical names the Greek
root gala, Salaktos. IS sonnet times seen.
Thus, to give big name TO lite
thing, n nursing child is q galactOpha-
milk are galactophorous. A galacta-
gOgue is a milk bringer, applied 20 drugs
that cause an increase in the secretion
Of milk, but it IS not a term that One
could apply with accuracy or implnlty
TO the driver OF a milk wagon or a cow
boy.
The whole farm yard has in fact
furnished some names to medical
language. Vacca. the Latin or cow.
gives vaccination from vaccinus. OF or
pertaining to a COW. Serum is the Latin
for whey. Water. often q conc0mitant
Of milk. gives it's name TO lymph from
the Latin lympha, water. allied TO
hmpid, clear Ike wafer Water further
appears in common language IN dropsy
which comes from the Greek hudor,
water, the longer term being hydropsy,
the by having been elided in ordinary
use.
Leon Noel.