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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    with Savine oint- ment. Acus admovere, Cels. To apply a needle. Acu 'apprehendere, 2tran- To Hake hold of, 2sow suere, Hrajicere, Cels. through, 3traverse, —with a needle. Cutem candentibus ferra- To make ulcers in the mentis exulcerare, Cels. skin by hot irons [*'. e. by the actual cautery]. Non, ut primum fieri potest, Not to heal the ulcers ulcera sanare, Cels. as soon as possible. Turn, qua notse sunt, cutis Then, where the marks acu filum ducente tran- are, the skin is suitur, ejusque fili capita pierced by a needle inter se deligantur, quoti- carrying a thread, dieque id movetur, donee and the two ends of circa foramina cicatriculao this thread are tied fiant, Cels. together, and the thread is moved daily until small cicatrices are formed about the orifices. Eumque acu trajicere linum And to traverse it by a trahente, Cels. needle drawing a thread after it. Ad imum acu trajecta duo Traversed at the bot- lina ducente, Cels. torn by a needle car- rying two threads. Acupunctural The acupuncture. * Acupunctura, from acus, a needle, and pungo, I prick.