Nuts and Bolts: the Medical Alphabet.

Nowadays prescriptions of medicines from doctors almost always come printed by computer, but this chart, below, which I found on Twitter, brought back memories of former times - and an old joke:

Lady reading prescription form: I've got to take a squiggle that looks like a gerbil three times a day, a teaspoon of double loop in the morning, and something beginning with an F or a B half an hour before lunch.




You have to laugh...

...and then, gulping, wonder just how many people died as a result of doctors' illegible writing.

Word To Use Today: one on the side of a medicine packet or bottle. The word medicine comes from the Latin medērī, to heal.