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To ensure confidentiality and protect the privacy of subjects they will not be identified by name, acrostics will be used.
Acrostics (p. 75) are already attested in the Near East (3rd millennium BCE), Egypt (14th c. BCE) and 6th-c. BCE Greece.
In desperation, I learned such acrostics as novel (Nerve, Artery, Vein, Empty space, Lymphatic--inguinal structures, from lateral to medical) and bitem (appropriately, the muscles of mastication--Buccinator, Internal pterygoid, Temporalis, External pterygoid, Masseter); the abecedarius of lead poisoning (Anemia, Basophilic stippling, Colic, Dementia, Encephalopathy, Foot drop, Gingival pigmentation ); and two (What a waste of precious brain space!)