Albany medical annals . Fig. VII. Fig. VIII CORRESPONDENCE lOI dorrcsponOence TOILET VERSUS WATER the Editor: Is it too late to nail to the counter a spurious neologism thathas been insidiously working its way for some time into thecurrency of the Kings English? In a word, shall water closet,a term so acceptable to civilized man that it has been welcomedto the vocabularies of almost all modern languages, give wayto toilet as implying the like concept? Surely physicians whocarry the principles of asepticism into the practice of speech andabhor impurities in their mother tongue may sti
Albany medical annals . Fig. VII. Fig. VIII CORRESPONDENCE lOI dorrcsponOence TOILET VERSUS WATER the Editor: Is it too late to nail to the counter a spurious neologism thathas been insidiously working its way for some time into thecurrency of the Kings English? In a word, shall water closet,a term so acceptable to civilized man that it has been welcomedto the vocabularies of almost all modern languages, give wayto toilet as implying the like concept? Surely physicians whocarry the principles of asepticism into the practice of speech andabhor impurities in their mother tongue may still accomplishsomething by making a stand against the squeamishness of femalepatients and nurses upon whose lips the offender is oftenestheard. The last straw in my own tolerance came the other dayin the shape of a circular issued by a State Board of Healthover the signature of its secretary, a physician, in whose virilemind a spade is usually that and nothing else. This was theshocking clause: plenty of running water, soap, conve
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