Rubor,tumor, calor, dolor, functio laesa....the cardinal symptoms of inflammation.

and the acronym would be Ready To Call Doctor's Fone Line

Rubor, tumor, calor, dolor, functio laesa....the cardinal symptoms of inflammation

For the Latinally-challenged, that translates as "redness, swelling, heat, pain, loss of function". Pretty accurate for a bunch of unsophisticated folk (well, scientifically, anyway) twenty-five hundred years ago.

aside to of Troy: Yes, I know.