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Box 302 10% Reduction to Medical Staff 157 COMMISSIONER ST., JOHANNESBURG 61 KOTZE STREET, HILLBROW Page 2 THE AURICLE September, 1937 HOW TO w r it e FOR «■ THE AURICLE.” double translations, which filled several hooks, till I had acquired the knowledge of both idioms, and the Iii our last issue a gentleman who hid his identity command at least of a correct style.” under the title “ Hopeful," pointed out that some other medical journals of good repute had been Gibbon practised this method for about two years, publishing harangues about the literary deficiencies of but if the would-be author decides that he is not by the medical author. We have been duly impressed, in nature as talented as the great historian, he would be fact, we have decided to join issue with our fellow- well advised to spend an additional year on this editors of ‘ ‘ The Lancet,” ‘ ‘ The Practitioner” and preparation. the '' Canadian Medical Journal ” in chastising those Having perfected his style, the prospective who contribute to our columns. *1 Auricle ” contributor should try to keep his writings At the outset let us state that some of the articles at a proper emotional level, and to do chis he should we receive are bad; some are frankly gangrenous. Our take to heart the lesson in Hamlet's advice to the waste paper baskets are littered with the ghosts of players: "O h, it offends me to the soul to hear a literary endeavours, of ideas that have been conceived robustious periwig pated fellow tear a passion to in haste and expelled before they had attained viability tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of groundlings —ignominious abortions. Rut post-mortems arc who, for the most part, are capable of nothing hut gloomy and quite out of place in the jolly “ Auricle.” inexplicable dumb-shows and noise . Be not too Our real intention is to show how a recurrence of tame neither, hut let your own discretion be your these unfortunate events may be prevented. tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance that you o'erstep The casual student who wishes to write for " The not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone Auricle ” should prepare himself carefully for the is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the task. He cannot do better than follow the example of first and now, was and is, to hold, as t’were the mirror Edward Gibbon. The historian of the Roman Empire to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her describes his method thus: “ 1 adopted an excellent own image, and the very age and body of the time his method which, from my own success, I would recom­ form and pressure.” mend to the imitation of students. I choose some classic writer, such as Cicero and Vertot, the most In addition, a knowledge of psychology is useful approved for purity and elegance of style. I translated, to every author. If he has made mankind his study for instance, an epistle of Cicero into French; and and has read Freud and McDougal, he will be able to after throwing it aside, till the words and phrases were write like Virginia Woolf herself. For example, if the obliterated from my memory, I re-translated my hero offers the heroine an iced drink, the author will French into such Latin as 1 could find; and then be able to show, by considering the heroine's genetic compared each sentence of my imperfect version with inheritance, her past upbringing and the effect of the the ease, the grace, the propriety of the Roman orator. hero's presence on her suppressed libido, that she will A similar experiment was made on several pages of indubitably ask for pineapple flavour rather rhan for the Revolutions of Vertot; I turned them into Latin, raspberry or coca-cola. returned them after a sufficient interval into my own These, then, are the properties that '' The Auricle ” French, and again scrutinkcd the resemblance or contributor should possess: style, temperament, and dissimilitude of the copy and the original. By degrees knowledge of humanity. 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This prompted me to write you “ Look! ” said the shade of the famous scientist, this little appeal, which 1 trust you will publish in your and his extensor indicis propriris became tense as his columns. finger pointed southward. Among the medical students of this University 1 1 looked. I saw the anatomical museum at a far off have noticed a few members of the fair sex.