Language For Medicine

Deri'lü']1 ■ -'■,■,!. .f "niver sa! lañarme í tu riicine i i ths lir During the i ! w oiouiIik re ha'i bafl i ocas i' . lt ro t vera! pro posáis ol ■. ' : ui N-ow ■ ...-. another, tfcis tune Iruii Dr E Vitali 9l 3ai i has addressed ! Ion "-.i (i to '.:-. ■ I tallan mjuister oi pub:tc u-'ruetiou. Dr. Baccelli, :nviting mm is president of the international' medical songress to proposn r tbe orgauiziue iomrniitee thai Latin x recoguized - on of rh: ofTiciai langfuagfeg at 'be next ( Moáoow) sopgress hii'i as tb' solé Ricial anguagi at all tutui' . ïseti beg;un:ng with ebt toimh íioni (ae otie nelú thi year id Rome. Dr. Vitali'! argument is. briefly. fhat while a!l medical n:eu have som ' -i;. ittering of Latín oomparativcly few fcnow any modern language i 'ir tfteir oVn. Very few '.inierstand all the - uso'l at coagresse. which nence servt to give an id ol the tower if Babel as f-u as ïoiifq - 11 ii tongues is oouoerui I. Ho ■ ■ ■ Latin ii, it -vi. , ' ..-.-, I -i V ili main lains. be i ■ im ■ tl , my ■ li modern lan i.i !ai . -i unmb r, and tbat, ufter all, ■ i poml For any ou realiy iu turucpt in the mattei then m üd L uo difiv ; ■ . in acquini ;; sufTïi ii m flueScy iu Latiu ioi the p'nrposi u view Dv. ll.iM'üi has sent & diplomatic repjy to Dr. Vifali's eoniinïiuicario] in which he proTuises i pive the sn proper cousideratiou, etc. Tbere, so far as wc know, the matter rests, and tivre, wo imagino, it is likely to rost. There WOnld unquestionahly be niany aiivrmtagos in the revival of Lutin as tbe üdgua franca of science, nor doos the schome invülve any insuperable difficulties. In an interesting article in The Temple Bar it ie stated that the celebrated Dr. Bozzi Granville, when he wished to enter the English navy, had some difflculty about hisexaminatiou at Haalar, as none of the medical staff spoke any Europeau language but his owu. At the suggestion of tho surgeon of the Raven, whose Communications with his assistant had been carried on in Latin, that language was employed. The