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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    Many things often written in the chart are much better expressed in the “legend” (i. e., the explanation in fine type below the cut) or in the body of the text itself. 2. Use charts ruled only with black ink, and ruled clearly and sharply. Some manufacturers of blank charts use colored inks in some of the horizontal or vertical lines. Use black ink also in all writing, lines, or figures made upon the chart. Draw the temperature-line, the essential feature of the chart, exceptionally heavy and clear. 3. Make all writing and figures required two or three times the usual size of letters and figures in ordinary writ¬ ing. This allows the photographer to reduce the whole chart uniformly to one-half or one-fourth the size, and still all details will be clear. Do not use the “running” or cursive style of writing (as in letter-writing); but separate each letter and “print” them, as the children say, in Ro¬ man fashion. 4. When more than one line is required, as, e.g., to re¬ cord the respirations, pulse rate, or other synchronous phe¬ nomena, do not use differently-colored inks, but different kinds of interrupted lines in black ink, as, e. g., one con¬ tinuous, one of dashes, one of hyphens, one of dots, or com¬ binations of dots, dashes, stars, etc. 5. It is better not to use any of the blank clinical charts in common use for redrawing, but to take a large sheet of unruled paper, and rule it horizontally and vertically in squares of about of an inch. The changes or angles in the direction of the temperature-line may be indicated by pin-pricks through the paper before the line itself is drawn. 6. Get some enterprising publisher to advise and place on sale blank charts corresponding to the foregoing sug¬ gestions, not for clinical purposes, but for writers who wish to reproduce charts with printed articles, or to show to audi¬ ences at medical society meetings, etc. Illustrations are perhaps often useless, but are some¬ times necessary, and may even tell more than text as to
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