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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    Lumbricus latus; lumbri- The tape-worm (Tm- cus teres, Cels. nium Solium);—the round -worm. Quod expellit vermes; an- That which expels thclminticum.* worms; an anthel- mintic or vermifuge. Quod occurrit putredinem; That which obviates antisepticum. putrescency; an an- tiseptic. Sect. 11.—Be balneis ; de Of Baths ;—Of Fomcn- /amentia, Sfc. tations, #c. •Balneum,f Cels.; Bali- 'A bath [private].— neum.-2Balnef»; Balinea. 2Baths [public].—M, —'Balneum medicatum. medicated bath. 11. Filaria Medinensit, Guinea-worm. In the cellular tissue. 12. oculi. In the crystalline lens. 13. bronchialis. In the bronchial glands 14. Tricocephalus ditpar, Long thread-worm. In the ccecum and colon. 15. Spiroplera kominis. In the urinary bladder. 16. Siroiizijlus izi^'is. Kidney. 17. Ascaris lumbricoider, Long round-worm. In 'he small intestine. 18. vermicidaris, Maw-worm or thread-worm. In the rectum. * From 'avrl. against, and 'eX/tn/f, a worm. t Ilalu^fi and balineum were used for the water bath, which evWy master of a family had in his house; balnea and balinete.for public bathing-places. All referred tohaths artificially healed. ''The cold bath and shower hath, therefore! and, in 1'linrmaey, the sand hath, water bath, &c., require a very different form of expression.—Horce Hubsec.