Stone demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex and unforgiving examples of Latin abbreviations, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and religion.

Chapter 1 Medical Latin; Chapter 2 Legal Latin; Chapter 3 Religious Latin; Chapter 4 Abbreviations; Chapter 5 Miscellaneous; Chapter 6 Roman Catholic Liturgy (Selections);

Jon R. Stone is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Latin for the Illiterati (1996) and Guide to the End of the World: Popular Eschatology in America (1993).