{"id":385,"date":"2006-03-12T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/385"},"modified":"2006-03-12T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T02:09:06","slug":"dropsy-like-its-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/385","title":{"rendered":"Dropsy like it’s hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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”?<\/p>\n

So while reading Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers<\/a><\/em>, I ran across a footnote that made me giggle (p. 226). Ready?<\/p>\n

Scrofula<\/p>\n

Dropsy<\/p>\n

Quinsy<\/p>\n

Granders<\/p>\n

Farcy<\/p>\n

Tetter<\/p>\n

Hectic fever<\/p>\n

Roach, Mary. (2003). Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers. W.W. Norton & Co: New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-random-sonya-fact"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}