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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    Netum* metallicum ; filum Metallic wire. metallicum. Aura electrica. The electric aura. •Scintilla electrica; 2scin- 'An electric spark; 2a tillula electrica ; 3pollices small electric spark; duo vel tres longitudine Equalling two or aequans. three inches in length. 'Ictusf electricus ; 2commo- 'The electric shock ; tio electrica ; 3concussio 2electric commotion ; electrica; 4explosio elec- 3electric concus- trica. sion; 4electric explo- sion. FrictioJ; electrica. Electric friction. Balneum^ electricum. The electric bath. Electricitate per scintillas To electrify [to affect [yel per ictus] afficere. or influence with elec- * From neo, to spin. t Ictus, a stroke or blow. Ictus fitlminus, Cicero, a stroke of lightning; ictus fulmineus, Horace, the lightning stroke. \ Frictio electrica, Callisen. The term electric friction has been applied to a mode of electrifying which consists in drawing sparks from the patient through a piece of flannel (see Cavallo, Complete Treatise on Electricity, vol. ii.p. 136, 3d ed.) § The correct meaning of the word balneum will be ex- plained hereafter (See Sect. xi. De balneis). The term bal- neum electricum is used by Cai.msen and others. It is ap- plied to the simple cominunieation established between an individual and the excited prime conductor of an electric machine, by means of a chain, or other metallic cominuni- eation. The individual is generally seated on an insulated stool (scabellum insulatum). Rostan (Diet, de Midecine), however, states that the individual may, or may not, be insulated.