As it was my love of language, history and curiosities that led to my collecting the interesting tidbits in my work with card catalogs, I feel it's within the same vein to occasionally share an antique or marginal gem of the English tongue. Thus, I'll commence with this mouthful:
Iatromathematique / Iatromathematician: One of a school of physicians in 17th century Italy who hoped to cure ills of the body by attempting to greater understand it through the application of the laws of mathematics.
