Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-08

ago. he launched the dictum. as a joke,
that man Of sixty years of age is no
good. Osler Is past sixty. and is very
good, and 30 are tens OF thousands OF
men and women. A man does not, on
the average. really come to himself be-
fore he is forty. BY that time ne be-
comes sure Of his taste and judgment,
and for the next forty years, he should
be the cream cheese.
Well. took one of the books. 10 read
two papers on "Hysteria'' and Apo
plexy." In the former I at once got
into Terra Incognita Such Ian
guage. such Technology. Scientists
write for scientists, doctors for doc
tors. lawyers for lawyers. and the like
just as editors, when they write any
thing close, have. perhaps three or
four men In mind. and write to them,
and TO no one else. Writers are close
corporations.
Really, l didn't get much out Of
"Hysteria,' for the terms were so
strange. 1t was written in a special
tongue alien to me. All nations have
different dialects among their people;
The Indians had: the peasants have:
folks in certain counties in England
can hardly understand the speech of
people in other. even neishhoring
counties. Take down Your Tennysou
and try TO read his poem. Northern
Far.ne--o!6 STYLE" and wres.le with
that pa,ois, 1t is as hard as reading
Burns broad Scotch: almost as hard
IS Chaucer. Nay back there in the be-
ginning OF English literature. Here is
''Hysteria." We're scores and scores o.
words ! had never in a quite wide
reading even seen. To understand
them. had 20 paw the Unabridged
like a good fellow. and then couldn,
fi-d them. This was rot N-ox Populi,
nor Nox Del. but vox Diaholi the
toughest kind Of gibberish. Browsing
aroGnd in that jungle was like man.
no: botanist. surveying the tropical
vegetation on the Anazon-a maze Of
new gro"tils. utterly new ard foreign.
For curiosity. l set out 10 count the
terms the words, that kept stumbling
over. as traveller in p-imeval forest
might stumble over fallen trees. and
bark his <hins. if he didn't break his
neck. Here are some ct them:
Traun,a. aphonia. cold cephalagia,
psychogenic. dementia p-aecox, am
nesia. psychasthemia psychiatr-.
co,1ors ,aarborun affect. pi,hiatisne
iaty. ri:hiatique prona,ion dermog-
hsp;a bul"ar. corsicops-ip'1e-sl hum
oraiisna. rype-al gesia. archaeological.
genglion o: the pcsteric- roo: prop-io-
.ecep tiva dynamic polarization. pro-
droral. katonic. post-sta diunl. tiexibili-
-as ce-ea, akinetic. spinosesmenta
loolynorphous. mobility psychoses. or
hythri2. myocionus. aulau-osis ecchy-
moses. syncronle. scoton1ata, cn-omid-
rozis, a-refac.s. urtica-ia cre,nasieric.
Hssudalgia phantastica twou.dn't You
have hate 20 have that?). sonlati sy-
-i1yomyelia q new kind? >. poiiadok-
lTesis wouldn't that jar few teeth
ouJ91 st-eptococcus. etc. etc.
DID Doc give me thaI paper 10 read,
-, { joke" Anyway. ! knsr less about
Hysterig when traverset: al that than
before. Didn't know any more than
the Irishran who was :oll by doc
tor how a man suffered in an accident.
In telling another Paddy. Pat said all
the Latin pa-arts Of i,ifn We're broken.
bead" Add Greek, Egyptian and
Sanscri- pa arts TO PAS list, and il
describes my confusion.
Probably. this zor. Of ja-gon has to
be in medical parlance. but. as in
Scripture woe unto him by whom the
oFerse conet;l would. as steady
thing. rather read George AIDES Fables
IL Slang United States is good
enough language for ne. instead of
the tongues of angels and devils.
never got into such norass. jungle.
swamp % quicksand before-got in,
ard kept sinking-to The knees. 10 the
middle 10 the arm pits. over my head.
and needed nothing 50 much as an
obituary For was in No Mans Land
Of Never Never. But it is The common
pla aground o. doctor high b-ows, it
seems.