Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1900
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Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there is an assembly there is need of parliamentary law, so that the assembly may proceed in orderly fashion, with as little jar and discord as possible, and accomplish the work to be performed. . . .”2 The drowning of a speaker’s voice by the hum of a trolley-car heard through an open window, or by the cough¬ ing or sneezing of a member, or by the scraping of chairs, or banging of doors, etc., should be noted. If the subject, perhaps an important noun in a sentence, is smothered by such noise, the word is irreparably lost. The remedy con¬ sists in a proper location of reporter’s table, rubber-tips placed on chairs, etc., and members should be required to do all coughing, sneezing, and banging of doors before the meeting begins! Just in proportion as the careful surgeon in planning and carrying out a major operation observes every detail in the procedure, the stenographer likewise requires, in taking a scientific report, the best location and all facilities at hand —a table, distinct and separate from any other, a light on the table, not reflected from chandeliers above, as this often insures the annoyance of writing each penstroke in a shadow three inches long and two inches wide. Notes under those conditions are often made illegibly, and are, therefore, not official nor reliable. Finally, a most unparliamentary form of procedure that is admitted in many national, State, and local medical organizations in the country, is the nonobservance, strictly speaking, by the presiding officer of requesting—and if not complied with, then demanding—that each speaker, always and in every instance, shall, upon rising, announce his name and the city from which he comes. In a moderate debate this is dismissed from the minds of chairman and speakers, and never even thought of in the heat of debate, when the stenographer has no chance of correctly verifying, mentally or verbally, any method he may devise of number¬ ing speakers or denoting them as, e.g., “ red whiskers, i ; ” 2 Honorable Thomas B. Reed, “ Parliamentary Rules.”
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