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
Date:
1890
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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CCucurbitula sine ferro,* * Cels.—Cucurbit® leves.f Aubel. — Cucurbitula sine scarificatione, — cucurbita sicca. '('Cucurbit® cum ficatione, Aubel. scari- ®Cucurbitula cruenta ’cucurbitula cum ferro. CUucurbit® arentes atque siccat®4 Aubel. The cucurbital (cup- ping-glass) with- out the scarificator [i.e. dry cupping, or cupping without scarification). ‘The cucurbits \i.e. cupping - glasses] with scarification; ’the bloody cup- ping-glass ; ’the cupping-glass with the scarificator. Parched and dried cupping - glasses {cupping - glasses a ffixed hy means of *.vriters to indicate the cupping-glass generally. Others ;t e.gr. Castelli, in his Lexicon Medicum') limit it to the dry ::upping-glas3. • Ferrum signifies iron, and also any instrument made of rron, as the cupping scarificator. t CucurUtcB leves,\iter&\lyt?ielight, gentle,or mild cucurbits. ■ ‘ Inflglmus prseterea cucurUtas leves, quas Oraci rcovr/ras wocant, scilicet sine scarificatione.” (Gael. Aurel. Acut. Morb. i: ib. iii. cap. 21, p. 258, Amstel. 1722.) X “ Arentes et siccas cucurbitulas dicit, quse admoventur rmm fiamma. Interdum enim cum aqua calida apponebatur, Viuemadmodum scripsit Albucasis cap. De usu cucurbitu- liarum.” (Gael. Aurel. ed. supra cit. p, 31, foot-note by Dr, ir. G. Amman.)
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