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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    tween the Sartorius and Vastus interims muscles (or between the heads of the Ga- strocnemius, or be- tween [i. c. in the in- terstice] of the Del- toid and Biceps mus- cles). A bandage for issues in the arm (thigh, or calf). A seton. A needle ; an iron nee- dle. A seton needle. Let a seton be inserted in the nape of the neck. Let the skin at the back part of the neck be perforated by a proper needle carry- ing a skein of silk; the silk being left within the wound to excite a constant dis- charge of pus. When- ever the pus ceases to be discharged (or when the pus is defi- cient in quantity,) let the silk be anointed * From seta, a bristle, or horse-hair; because horse-hairs were first used to keep open the wound. lum Sartorium et Vastum internum (vel inter princi- piamusculi Gastrocnemii, vel interstitio * musculi Deltoidis et Bicipitis). Fascia pro fonticulis in bra- chio (t><^femore, vel sura). Setaceum.- Acus ; acus ferrea, Cels. Acus pro setaceo. Inseratur setaceum nuchre capitis. Acu idonea serici fasciculum ducente perforetur cutis colli posterioris partis, serico in vulnere relicto; ut fiat diuturna suppura- tio. Quoties pus effundi cessaverit (vel hac defi- ciente) illinatur sericum unguento Sabinae.