Coalville Times | 1903-04-24 | Page 6 | Diseases Known by Numbers

Diseases Known by Numbers. ' In the larger city hospital the young doctors on the houe taft and tbe visiting physicians nover use the nine or ten syllable words that they employ In making a report of a clinic for a medical Journal or at a meeting of the County Medical society. They refer to diphtheria aa a rase of "dip" In some hospitals, and other com-plalntB, com-plalntB, such as typhoid fever or pneumonia, pneu-monia, are abbreviated In tho same way, bo that the physicians and nursea understand them, even It relutlvos who visit the patients do not. Hut In most of tho hospitals number aro substituted substi-tuted for iiamea. The visiting physl-rlan physl-rlan la told that a patient la suffering from A caso of No. 1, No. 2, or No. S, meaning therohy smallpox, typhoid fever, or diphtheria, respectively. Aa such they go down on the hospital books.