The physician's prescription book : containing lists of terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : also the grammatical construction of prescriptions, etc., etc. : to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form with a literal translation : for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1852
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Credit: The physician's prescription book : containing lists of terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : also the grammatical construction of prescriptions, etc., etc. : to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form with a literal translation : for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    and let every word, throughout, be perfectly legible. Do not write a label in this manner:—' Dissolve these ingredients in J a pint of gruel or broth ; take 4 tablespfls. at 1st, and 2 tablespfrs. every i acrar until it operates, adding wn you take each dose, 2 teaspfls. of the Tinct. sent herewith.' But write it in this manner:—'Dissolve these in- gredients in half a pint of gruel or broth, and take four tablespoonfuls at first, and two tablespoonfuls every half-hour until it operates ; adding, when yon take each dose, two teaspoonfuls of the Tincture sent herewith.' I have known, even in cases where a man writes a very good hand, mistakes made by figures bling others, or being mistaken for others by i whose sight was not good. I have known B sembling an 8, and being mistaken for it; a 4 re- sembling a 7, and often a 7 for a 4. In writing for the word, half, the abbreviation, ]. the one is often expressed by a dot so small as to be scarcely visi- ble, while the 2 is much larger than it ought to he [thus .',]. The consequence has been that cine ordered to be administered every half hour, in a case of extreme danger, has been given only every two hours, and the patient died. (Chamberlain's Tyrociiiiuin Medicum.) The following is a List of Abbreviations and Con- tractions more or less frequently met with in pre- scriptions :— A. aa. ana f«tv*), of each ingredient. It signifies equally of weight or measure, and in this sense it is used by Hippocrates and Dioscorides. A. or aa. is used for brevity. • In the Pharmacopoeia, the term singulorum is employed instead of Ana.