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GEORGE HENRY FOX, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1921;3(4 PART 1):404-412.

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Many physicians, who in school and college have devoted years to laborious study of Latin and Greek, have allowed their knowledge of these languages to become too rusty for practical use. They recognize a few Greek words as old friends, though not always at first glance, and many Latin words are quite familiar. They omit most of the Latin quotations which they encounter in reading, and they are often unable to translate phrases even in common use. There are some who, like the writer, have at times felt a laudable desire to brush up their linguistic knowledge and have struggled again with the Latin grammar or the Greek Testament, but most of us have soon concluded that more pleasure might be obtained from some other amusement. For all who wish to refresh or add to their presumably meager knowledge of these languages, the surest and most attractive means of accomplishing . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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