Selecta è praescriptis : Selections from physicians' prescriptions; containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions, and abbreviations used in prescriptions ... For the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / [edited by Joseph Inge].

  • Jonathan Pereira
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1890
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    except when they prescribe for members of the Royal Family, when it is etiquette for them to sign their names in full. Surgeons usually put their surname at length, but only the initials of their baptismal names. Chapteb IV. LANGUAGE USED IN PRESCRIPTIONS. In Great Britain, as well as in Germany,* prescriptions are usually written in the Latin language. In France, and some other countries, the mother-tongue is employed. There are several reasons for preferring the Latin to the vernacular language in prescrip- tions,—at least, for the designation of the in- apothecary shall refuse to compound, or deliberately or neg- ligently, Msely, unfaitlifully, fraudulently, or unduly make any medicines, compound medicines, or medicinable compo- sitions, “ directed by any prescription, order, or receipt, Hfftied with^ the inilials, in his own handwriting,” of any physician licensed to practise physic by the president and commonalty of the faculty of physic in London, or by either of the two IJniversities of Oxford or Cambridge, such person shall forfeit for the first offence 51., for the second offence ]_0h, and for the third offence shall forfeit his certificate or license to practise as an apothecary. * See Phoebus’s llundbuch der Arzneiverordnimgsilehve, 3tte verbess. Ausg. ler Th. S. 99.
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