>>On 12/28/97 05:00:26, "John Perkins" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Lucasian Professorship. Deed of Foundation and Grant of King Charles II.
>>[snip]
>>
>>Thanks, John, what a comprehensive answer! GP-uk at its best :-)
>Comprehensive it may be. Accessible to non classical scholars it is not!
>:-).
>
Not even to those who passed their Latin O Level albeit 27 years ago.
>
>>Anyone care to translate?
>
Nope.
>
>Is the assumption that doctors should understand latin appropriate today?
>Is it appropriate for this forward looking e-mail list?
>
Yes it tends to make people like me feel inferior. I can remember Caesar
adsum iam (i=j) forte Brutus adorat (say it in english ) but the rest has
gone the way of me embryology lessons!
>
>>Regards
>>
>>Adrian Elliot-Smith
>>(thrown out of the latin stream at the end of the second year of grammar
>>school - but no grudges)
(I couldn't do woodwork because of Latin and today, woodwork's far more
important!)
Paul Attwood
GP Thanet
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