Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Bio Moments 1x te Live or a Youna Crrminar He gets a suspended sentence for his first murder. 14 Dinector—Hey, not so fast, not so fast— we wanta get some drama into this picture. Jake-Leg or 64-23? T National Conference on No- menclature of Di es has met and recommended that in future all diseases be designated by numbers in- stead of names. For instance, if they have their way, a man who has the lining corroded out of his stomach by bootleg licker will be put down on the records as suffering from 64-23, Without delay I want to go on ree- ord as being unalterably opposed to this. It will absolutely take all the pleasure out of being sick. In the old days, when men w men and diseases were generally fatal, a fellow could get some kick out of coming down with a spell of sickness. Diseases had stirring, marrow-chill- ing names like the Black Death, Bu- bonic F rs’ Fever, Beri- Beri, Consumption, ete. Even if you didn’t’ get well, you died with the satisfaction of knowing that your tombstone would proclaim to the cock-eyed world that it was Break- bone Fever, no less, that took you off. Later on the medical profession be- gan to get sort of high- nd tot up the disease names. If you got sick and called in a doctor, you were told that you had tonsilitis, tuberculosis, delirium tremens, or some other com- monplace-sounding ailment. Yet a comicbooks.com