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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    Quod elicit sudores : sudato- That which excites rium : sudorificum ; dia- sweats ; a sudatory ; phoreticum. a sudorific; a dia- phoretic. Sternutamentum, Cels.— Sneezing. Sternutatio, Apxjl. Sternutamenta excitare, To excite sneezings. movere, evocare, Cels. ; faoere, 1'i.inv ; ooncitare, proritare, Scum. Larg. Quod movet sternutamenta ; That which excites sternutamentum ;* ster- sneezing; a stcrnu- nutatorium; errhinum ;f tatory; an errhine : ptarmicum.J a ptarmic. Sternutamenta albo veratro Sneezings are excited conjecto in nares excitan- by putting into the tur, Cels. nose white hellebore. Ducere naribus ut sternuta- To snuff or draw [i7] mentum excitetur. up the nostrils that sneezing may be ex- cited. Htcc per calamum scriptori- Tliese may be blown um, naribus sufflentur, into the nostrils by SOBJB. Labg. a writing-pen. Aliquantillum naribus in- Let a little be blown suffletur. into the nostrils. Urinam movere, citare, To promote, increase, * In the following passage, Pliny (Hist. Nat. lib. xxv. cap. 109, ed. V'.ilp.) employs stemuiameninm to indicate a ster- nutatory :— Eadem sicca concisa, sternutamentum est. Some critics, however, read ciet, others • Jacit, for est, ami then sternutamentum signifies sneezing. t EfJjWov, from iv, in, and piv, the nose. X From nraijiu, I sneeze. 5*