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Cipher against Ciphers: Jonathan Swift's Latino-Anglicus Satire of Medicine

Abstract Best remembered for Gulliver's Travels and “A Modest Proposal,” the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift also delighted in word puzzles, elaborate rhyming exercises, constrained writing, and cryptographs. Among his favorite word games was his “Latino-Anglicus,” an ingenious cipher in which an English plaintext is encrypted in a “Latin” ciphertext. Although the “Latino-Anglicus” has long been dismissed as “trifling,” Swift could, in fact, put the amusing form to serious satiric purpose, as in “A Consultation of Four Physicians upon a Lord That Was Dying,” which caricatures pretentious and venal academic doctors of his day.