Show QUEER S CINCE L INCE CE THE DAYS when physicians first wrote their prescriptions in Latin LaUn on the theory that the patient would have more faith in the medicine if he know what he was taking scientists have been building words after a fearful and wonderful manner The climax seems to have been almost attained In the work of ot some German chemists who experimented with a substance called known to chem chemists chemIsts IsLe as Dur During During DurIng ing the course of or their investigations they used such materials as 1 2 DI Dl p mono 3 te 4 D I Ip p a r a dra to 5 C G DI Dl p 7 1 1 hydrate I 8 9 mono 10 A medical journal the Hospital com commenting commenting commenting on the case of o the Germans insists that It Is about time to reform the spelling of some drugs and ad medi medicines medIcInes cines The system has grown up It Itis itis itIs is slated stated through the practice of try trying trying tryIng ing to build a word that will give a technical description of ot the article named To illustrate A doctor do tor als covers that water mixed with whisky in ina Ina Ina a glass containing a lump of ot ice lee makes a highball Straightway he names his discovery Spirits Fancy a bibulous gentleman after about the fifteenth potation trying to fire a thing like that at a shorthaired bartender there be some something something thing thinK doing right away in those parts I Let at us ps hope therefore that the drug druggists druggists druggists and the doctors will reform their system before borore they enter the ordinary I nary nar channels of commerce We dont I need any of those freak names wander wandering wanderIng wanderIng ing through our spelling s books because most ost of us have plenty of trouble as us asit asIt it itis is |