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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    Sect. 8.—De electricitate,* Of Electricity, §c. $c. 'Electricitas; 2aura electri- 'Electricity [the cause ca; 3fluida electrica; 4vir- of electrical phenome- tus festucarum trahax. na~\ ; 2the electric [This last phrase occurs in aura ; 3the electric some Latin Dictionaries. ] fluid ; 4the force at- tracting straws. 'Trahere in se (said by Pli- To &ttract[electrically']; ny of the action on straws, 'to draw to or to- §c. of amber when rubbed); wards ; 2to take sud- 2rapere ad se (said by the denly, to catch at. * Nearly all ihe words in tliis section are of modern ori- gin, and necessarily so; for, with a few exceptions, electri- cal phenomena are of modern discovery, and the language of the ancients is incompetent to express them. The Greeks and Romans were acquainted with the attractive power which amber acquired by being rubbed ; and, as theGreeks called amber riXcKr/jov, and the Latins, electrum, Dr.Gilbert (in his TraclatuB de Magnete, Lond. 1600,) called all bodies which manifested a similar attractive power, electrics. The word electricity was soon after introduced to indicate the power which electrics thus evinced. It occurs in the wri- tings both of SirThomas Browne (.Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, Lond. 1646) and the Hon. Robert Boyle [Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Pro- duction of Electricity, 1676). It was used in a Latin form (electricitas) by Euler (Disquisitio de caitsa physica eleclrici- talis, Pelropoli [1755]); byJEpinus (Tentamen theortr. electri- cilatis et magnetismi, Petropoli [1751]); by Beccaria (Experi- menta alone observationet quibut electricitas vindex late con- slituitur aique explicalur, August® Taurinorum [1769]), and by many other writers of the last century. The word 'elec- trisatio was employed in the last century by Bohadsch (Dissertatio de utilitale eleclrisationis in arte medica Praea [1751]). ' B