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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    Verbs. Rule 14. A verb signifying actively governs the accusative: as, Recipe itnciam (vel drachmam). Capiat cochleare. Miltc sanguinem, Sumat unam [pilulam]. Rule 15. Verbs of giving, taking away, composing, &c, and many verbs compounded with ad, in, ob, pros, sub, govern an accusative and dative, if the verb be active ; if passive, a dative only. Da infantulo lactenti cochleare minimum aquce menthce. Admoveantur regioni renum hirudines sex. Capiat cochlearia duo in languoribus, prceci- pue diebus purgationi deditis. Si primal vencesec- tioni non cedat morbus, $c. Rule 16. Utor, and some other words, govern the ablative: as, Utatur sequenti. Utatur pediluvio. Utatur eager equitatione. Rule 17. One verb governs another in the infini- tive : as, Caput tonderi debet. Rule 18. Participles, gerunds, and supines, govern the case of their own verbs: as, Augendo dosin. Augendo, minuendove quantita- tem. Fiat linimentum, cervici et scapulis infrican- dum. Inx/illando tinctures opii guttas sex. Ride 19. Natus, editus, creatus, and some other par- ticiples, require an ablative case; and oftentimes with a preposition : as, Nata humoris detractio ab emplastro cantharidis. 11