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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    descendit, Cels.—Sedes.* Faces, f Fimus et Fimum. Dung or ordure of man, birds, cattle, &c. ■Alvus cita; 2alvus soluta ; Frequent, loose, or li- 3alvus fusa; 4alvusfluens; quid stools.—Purg- 5alvus liquida, Cels.— ing; looseness. ('Bel- 6Alvusfluida.—7Resolutio ly [or stools] quick- alvi, Cels.—8Venter fu- ly moved, 2loosened; sus;9venterliquidus,CELS. 3relaxed; 4loose or —10Ventris fluor, Cels. flowing ; 5 liquid ; Ventris resolutio, Cels. 6fluid ; 'looseness of. 12Ventris fluxiones ; 13so- —8Belly relaxed or lutiones, Plin.—14Dejec- loose ; 9liquid; l0flux tiones crebrae.—15Cathar- of ; looseness of ; sis. J—16Diarrhoea.—17Co- l2alvineflux; 13alvine prophoria.g looseness ; — 14 fre - quent dejections ; 15purging ; ^loose- ness ; 17purgation). • Sedes means, literally, a seat; in an extended sense, the fundament. It is also applied to that which comes from the fundament, or, in other words, an evacuation.—Phar- maceutical (1 utile. t Faces, the nom. pi. from fax, acts, f. a noun wanting the gen. pi. We meet with Fasces vini, Faces aceti, &c. in classical authors, hut nowhere Faceshominis; the word, in this sense, is altogether unnecessary and improper.— Horcs SubsecivOk $ Catharsis is not found in Latin dictionaries. It is a Greek word {KaOapaiq, from Ka6aipa), purgo) adopted by Latin writers, and means a purging. It is thus declined : N. Catharsis. D. Catharsi. V. Catharsi. G. Catharseos. A. Catharsin. Ab. Catharsi. $ Coprophoria idem quod Purgatio, ex <c6rrpoj, stercus, et •popeco, fero, gesto.—Blancard, Lexic. Medicum.