Show I EXUBERANT VERBOSITY I IThe II I The medical profession is perennially accused of lack of or clarity of ot expression I in dealing wit with medical subjects In Inthe Inthe the tho accusation thoro is a a. certain amount of ot justice but the tho critics forget forget for for- get et that man many 8 scientific subjects es especially especially es- es S' S those of a technical nature cannot easily be dealt with in tho lan Inn language guage 0 of the street Nevertheless tho the charge that we are not clear dear and direct in in our method of expression says sa The Journal of the American Medi Medical Medical al Association As makes us sad That is until we wc happen harpen to got of et hold of a piece picco of composition written in legal phrase olo Then b by comparison the most turbid of medical expressions become clear These facts are suggested by reading rending a charge made b by a grand and jury Sury against a physician who ha had ren ren- eared cred a bill against the tho county for moro more than was due duo him Briefly the doctor had claimed to vaccinate seven ty-seven more persons persona than he actually had vaccinated and thus obtained from the tho county twenty seven dollars which did not belong to him The misdemeanor misdemeanor meanor me-anor was not an involved one but tho the grand rand jury iury stated it thus John Jon Doe on the fourth day of or March in in the year of ot our Lord Loril one thousand thou sand nino nine hundred and twelve in the tho county aforesaid with force and arms did unlawfully by using deceitful means artful practices defraud and I cheat tho th-o count county of in tho the of out of tho the thomm sum slim of 27 4 And as aa though this thiR charge rge were not sufficiently overwhelms overwhelming 1 the tho grand jury goes oos into details regarding thi this misdemeanor thus The said John Doe then and there thore represented to said board of commissioners commissioners commis commis commis- that he vaccinated the above named persons and aDd the said board then and there paid the said John Doe ono one dollar doUar each for the tho above named persons pet per sons son and said payment was made upon said representation and said representation represent represent- representation so made by the he said Doo Doe that he ho vaccinated the above named persons was false and made by the said Doo Doe for tho purpose e of cheating and defrauding defrauding de do the tho said county o or of and said board of commissioners of roads and revenues of said county out of tho the sum hum of seven dollars and because be bo- bo cause causo of said aid false representation said county of was cheated and defrauded defrauded de de- b by tho the said John Doe out of said sum Bum of money contrary to tho the laws of said id state good order peace and di dignity thereof A noted English statesman long since sinco dead accused his political op pOI por pOInt pon ent nt on the tho floor of the House lIou o of Commons of being intoxicated with ith tho exuberance of his own verbosity A study of IC legal 3 phraseology y leads lends tho the layma layman to wonder if this Is iB not a species of intoxication indulged in in h by those who lio are Bubmer submerged ed in an otherwise otherwise other other- otherwise wise dry subject If Jf so a new field of investigation m may bo be open opened oct up A stud study of tho the pathology of tho the verbal erbal jag mi might t throw s some omo light on this I obscure subject ct |