410 APPENDIX E, F. 



E. , 



It was the custom, but a few years ago, to write and lecture 

 upon medical subjects in Latin, or a jargon so called. This has 

 left an incubus upon these studies, both in terms and style, which 

 the French teachers a long time since discarded, to the great ad- 

 vantage of their pupils. Prof. Leidy, one of the leading anito- 

 mists in America, in his Anatomical Treatise for the use of Med- 

 ical Students, says : " Much of the difficulty in the acquisition 

 and retention of anatomical knowledge arises from an excessive, 

 and in some respects objectionable, nomenclature . . . founded 

 upon no particular system, &c. In some measure to avoid the 

 difficulty ... a single name will be used for each part," &c. 



If unnecessary difficulty is found by the professional student, 

 who needs many technical terms, how much greater is the trouble 

 given to the popular reader, who has no occasion for professional 

 language ? 



Many persons favor the use of Technical terms, because they 

 suppose them to be scientific. Now, technical and professional 

 are not synonymous, nor are scientific and technical. Scientific 

 refers to the order, fulness, and clearness of presentation, and 

 may be used in connection with popular as well as with profes- 

 sional. Indeed, that which would be scientific addressed to a 

 popular audience, would not be, if addressed to a professional 

 one, and vice versa. 



By some these technical expressions are liked because they 

 seem to them to give an air of learning ; they think the display 

 a class makes in repeating them will be striking, and commend- 

 ed, and that a scholar will be satisfied he is wise, if he can mouth 

 words that others do not understand. But, by all means^ let the 

 reality be first obtained, as thence comes the profit. 



F. 



Man is a twofold "being, composed of Mind and Body. Though in 

 many respects they may be, and in some must be, treated as dis- 

 tinct, yet the condition of either affects that of the other. 



This fact is the keynote of all practical Physiology. Bravery 

 and courage, fear and cowardice, levity and cheerfulness, de- 

 pression and gloom, depend on the condition of the body as much 

 as on that of the mind ; while dyspepsia, consumption, heart and 

 other diseases, have their rise in mental anxieties as often as in 

 purely physical causes. 



Do not merely hopeful thoughts of delicious fruits make the 

 " mouth water," while fearful emotions prevent the formation 

 of juices ? The rice-test, in India, detects the guilty servant on 

 this principle. 



The blush of modesty or shame, the flush of anger, and the 

 pallor of fear, suggest the same truth. 



On the other hand, military drills and decorum, requiring 

 manly attitudes and regular muscular exercises, tend to reproduce 

 in the 



