Re: Brain Eater Question

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, anxious
triffid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@fserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Of course, all of this proto-fascism is unacceptable in more modern times, 
> and so the term 'Mongoloid' is relegated and instead the term 'Down's 
> Syndrome' is used... ...named instead after the very man that drew up the 
> Ethnic Classification of Idiots: Dr John Langdon Haydon Down.
> 
> (Footnote: the other term used for describing the condition is 'Trisomy-
> 21')

I once knew a pediatric chief resident who, for exactly this reason,
insisted on refering to the condition as Trisomy-21.

Didn't seem to catch on, though...

- Dave Goldman
  Portland, OR