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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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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    'The head-bath.— ®The hand-bath. To pour much hot water over his head [so that it may run over all’ his body], then tepid, and, lastly, cold water. Let the patient use the half-bath, made moderately warm, for ten or twelve minutes. Pedes cruraque in aquam To bathe the feet calidam demittere. Perfusio corporis aqua calida. Lavare egelida* aqua. » Gehdus and egelidus agree in deuotiug objects not as in a state of heat, but differ in respect to the distance of cacli from that state. The first term (from gelu, frost or ice)applies to water that is either frozen or just at freezing point. AVrfJdKS differs in denoting a diminution of the cold implied in the latter, or a step in the progress towards heat. (See Hill’s Diet, of Synonyms.) aerard {Thesaurus) defines the word egelidiis thus“ Quod gelu amisit, et jam non est ' calidum neque frigidum,—tepidum.” ; and legs in warm water. The affusion of the body with warm water. ^ To use tepid wash- ing. 'Capitiluvium.— ^Manuluvium. Multa calida aqua per caput se totum perfundere, turn tepida, deinde frigida. Cels. Utatur semicupio ad x. vel xij. minuta horae in aqua adhuc calenti modied.
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