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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    ‘Vesicatorium.—-Tela vesi- catoria ; * ^sericum vesi- cans {French Codex); taffeta vesicatoria ; 'pannus vesicatorius. ^charta vesicatoria. Vesicare; quod vesicat. Usque ad vesicationem. Cicatricem inducere, perducere, Cels. Ulcus diuturnum, Cels. Fluxum elicere. 'A vesicatory or blis- ter.f — -Blistering tissue [ cloth ] ; blistering taffeta; ■’blistering cloth; ^blistering paper. To raise a blister; that which raises a blister [i. e. a vesicatory]. Until vesication is produced. To promote [the formation of] a cicatrix. A long - continued ulcer [as the so- called perpetual blister]. To promote the discharge. * Thi-s term is applied to both cloth and paper covered with a preparation of catUharidin. It comprehends, there- fore, the papier ipUpattique and luffelai vesicant of the French. t The word blister signifies both a vesicating substance (e.g. emplastrum cantharidis) and a vesicle or bleb (vesicula vel bulla). This circumstance, it is presumed, led the writer of a prescription to commit the follow'ing gross blunder :— “ AppUcetur emplastrum lyttaj thoraci, et scrvetur apertum usu cerati sabinaj.” Query : What is to be kept open ? Answer : The emplastrum lidUe!'
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