Dropsy like it’s hot
You know what I like? Old-timey medical names. I’ve always liked to throw in “rickets” when I don’t know the word I mean. C’mon. Remember that Johnny Socko song “If I Didn’t Have a Goiter”?
So while reading Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers, I ran across a footnote that made me giggle (p. 226). Ready?
Scrofula
Dropsy
Quinsy
Granders
Farcy
Tetter
Hectic fever
Roach, Mary. (2003). Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers. W.W. Norton & Co: New York.
I was just listening to “if I didn’t have a goiter” on the train, that and “madame blavatsky are the only Socko songs on my Ipod; that is kismet, I am sure! Johnny socko shows are fun, I miss fun!