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.

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    -erectus.* to sleep, — ssupine (t. e. laid on the back),—*erect. 'In a full stream.— 2From a large wound [«, e. incision or ori- fice]. A scalpel or lancet; an instrument to let blood with. 'A fillet, roller, or ban- dage ;—s a linen ban- dage. A ligature. 'A tent or pledget.— 'Bene largo canali,f Cels. Pleno rivo.J—aEx largo vulnere. Scalpellus, g Cels. Phle- botomum vel phleboto- mon,|| Aurel.—Lanceo- la; lancetta. 'Fascia ; — 2fascia lintea, Cels. Ligatura. 'Penicillum (yel penicillus), * Dr Marshall Hall (Inlrod. Led. to a Course of Lectures on the. Practice of Physic, p. 36) employs bloodletting as a source of diagnosis. He places the patient upright and looking upwards, and bleeds to incipient syncope: -'in inflammation much blood flows; iu irritation very little. t This phrase is applied by Celsus (lib. i. cap. 4) to a stream of water. \ Ilivus is usually translated a river; but it means literally a stream ;e. g. sanguinis rivus, a stream of blood. Pliny (Hist. Nat lib. xi. cap. 88, ed. Valp.) calls the veins sanguinis riii. Virgil (Aln. lib. ix. v. 455) has plenos spumanti sanguine rivus. $ Celsus (lib. ii. cap. 10) employs the word scalpellus to designate the instrument used in phlebotomizing : At si timide scalpellus demittitur, summam culem lacerat, neque venam incidit.—Scultetus {Armamentarium Chirurgicum, p. 49, Lugd. Baf. 1693) describes the lancet thus: Scal- pellus rectus est et ex utraque incidens lanceola dictus. || Pklebolomum ($\e0or6ixov, the neuter singular of <t>\e- /?or(5/ioj, adj. venam incidens, that opens a vein) includes both the phleme used in veterinary surgery, and the lancet.