Gelatio

[lelliott19]

GELATIO - a 19th Century medical term for frostbite

McGill Medicine: The First Half Century, 1829-1885, Joseph Hanaway and Richard Cruess, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Mar 8, 1996, page 40. link

 

[FarawayFriend]

Forgive me, I know it's totally inappropriate to make fun of these terms...
but when I read "Gelatio" my first thought was that it means: addicted to icecream....
Sorry, I could not help myself....