RT Journal
A1 Wiley HW
T1 GReek roots and english word formation
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD March 15
VO 72
IS 11
SP 818
OP 818
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610110050024
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610110050024
AB To the Editor: 
    —I have read with interest the editorial on page 654 of the issue of March 1 entitled "Food and Bacteria —the New Bromatherapy." My classical ear was somewhat offended by this term. As you used the correct Greek derivation in the first column on page 655 in the word "bromatology," the contrast with the second word therefrom, namely, bromatherapy, was acutely accentuated. Since the genitive is always used in introducing English words of Greek origin, I hardly need inform your classical editor that "bromatos" is the correct form for compounded words. In order that you may not fall into similar error in the future, I am taking the liberty of sending you a reprint of my essay on Bromato-Therapy.Yours in the interest of Homer and Socrates, Æsculapius and Hippocrates,[Comment.—When our correspondent states that "the genitive is always used in introducing English words of Greek