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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    bita ventosa, Juv.* Cu- curbit or cupping- curbita niedicinalis, Pli- glass. NY. Cucurbitula sine ferro.f The cucurbital (cup- Cels.—Cucurbitaeleves.j ping-glass) without Aurel.—Cucurbitula sine the scarificator (t. e. scarificatione,—cucurbita dry cupping, or cup- sicca. ping without scarifi- cation). 'Cucurbitae cum scarifica- 'The cucurbits [i.e. cup- tione, Aurel. 2Cucurbi- ping-glasses] with tula cruenta; 3cucurbitu- scarification; athe la cum ferro. bloody cupping- glass; 3the cupping- glass with the scari- ficator. Cucurbitae arentes atque Parched and dried cup- siccatae,g Aurel. ping-glasses (cup- tive of cucurbita, a gourd, and was so called on account of its shape. Cucurbita is also employed to indicate the cu- curbit u-ed in cupping. The term cucurbitula is applied 10 small cucurbits (i.e. cucurbitals). These vessels were for- merly made of brass (or copper), and of hom(Celsus, lib ii, cap. 11), and to these it is obvious the term cupping-glass is not applicable.—Hippocrates employed cupping. * Cucurbita ventosa (liler.illy the. windy cucurbit), or simply ventosa without the adjunct, is a term used by some writers lo indicate the cupping-glass generally. Others (e. g. Castelli, ill his Lexicon Medicum.) limit it to the dry cuppinu-glass. t Fe.rrum signifies iron, and also any instrument made of iron, as the cupping scarificator. t Cucurbita leves, literally the light, gentle, or mild cucur- bits. Infigimiis proeterea cucurbitas leves, quaa Grceci msAof vocant.scilicit sine scarificatione (Cael. Aurel. Acut. Morb. 111). Hi. cap 21, p. 258. Amstel. 1722). $ Arentes et siccas cucurbitulas dicit, quee admoventur