Abstract
After experiencing acute attacks of writer's cramp from overuse of blue pencil, an editor feels grateful to those authors whose flawless prose gives overworked editorial digits a well-deserved rest. Lest this gratitude remain unacknowledged, I have excerpted following memorable passages from recently submitted manuscripts: patient had no evidence of heart disease at that time , writes Dr A. Note how gracefully author avoided geometricizing sentence. He could have said that the patient had no evidence of heart disease at that point of time. Diagnosis and treatment had to be reconsidered, writes Dr B. Observe restraint. Dr B could have hyped sentence by stating that diagnosis and treatment underwent an agonizing reappraisal . Antibiotic therapy was begun and was continued for two weeks, Dr C informs us. Just think of alternative. The author might have said that the patient was begun on antibiotics and
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