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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    'Alvus dura ; 2alvus sup- pressa ; 3alvus adstricta; 4alvus contracta ; 5alvus compressa, Cels.—6Alvus tenax ; 7alvus compacta ; 8alvus constipata. 9Venter astrictus; 10venter con- tractus ; venter sup- pressus, Cels.—,2Ubi non descendit alvus ; l3venter [yel alvus] nihil reddit, Cels. — 14 Obstipatio. — 15Constipatio alvi. Alvum 'solvere, 2movere, 3liquare, Cels. ; 4mollire, emollire, 5elicere, 6evacu- are, 7exinanire, 8trahere, 9purgare, ,0ciere, Pliny ; dejicere, Cato.—,2Pur- gatione alvum solicitare, Cels.—Ventrem 13exina- nire, 14mollire, 15liqusire, 16 solvere, '7 resolvere, Cels. — I8Sedes promo- vere. Bound, constipated, or confined bowels (or ' belly). — Constipa - tion. ('Belly [or stools] hard ; Sup- pressed ; 3bound ; contracted ; 5com - pressed or costive; 'retained; 7compact; 8constipated. 9Belly bound; 'contracted; suppressed; 12when one does not go to stool; 13the belly produces nothing; 'obstipation; 15con- stipation (of the belly). To act on, or open, or loosen the bowels.— To purge. ( 'To loosen; 2move; 3make liquid ; 4soften ; 5eli- cit; 6evacuate; ''emp- ty ; 8draw or lead; 9purge ; ,0to move or provoke; deject or cast down—belly or stools ; '2to solicit the belly [or stools] by purgation; I3to empty; 'Ho soften, makeliquid; 'loos- en ; ''unloosen the belly; '»to promote stools.)