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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    Balneum fervcns (sen fervi- The hot, warm, and dum),calidum, tepidum.* tepid bath [artifi- cial]. Tepidarium, Cels. A tepid bath. Thermic.f Hot baths [natural]. Lavatio,J Cels. — Lava- A washing or bathing, crum. A bath or washing place. Ablutio, Pliny. Ablution. 'In balneum ire ; 2ducerc in 'To go into a bath ; 2to balneum; 3uti balneo ca- take [him] into a lido ; in balneum mittere, bath ; 3to use tho Cels.; demittere in bal- warm bath; to put neuin ; dcscendere in bal- [him] into a bath. neum. Eliccre sudorem sicco ca- To procure sweat by lore, Cels.—Balneum sic- dry heat.—A dry cuin.% bath. * The temperature of the different kinds of bath is as follows:— Deg. Fah. 1. Very cold from 33 to . . 50 2. Cold 50..- (65 3. Cool 65 .. o 2 85 4. Tepid 85 . . « ( 92 5. Warm 92 98 6. Hot 98 tho highest degree of heat the patient can bear, perhaps 110 or 112 t Titer mtr signifies baths of water naturally hot; balnea, baths made hot by fire. Hence the phrase hilnta mineralia in not correct. t I/ivalio also signifies a bathing vessel. § By the term balneum siccum, or dry ba/b, are meant, applications of dry heated substances (as hot air, sand, ashes, salt, &c.) to the skin to promote sweating.—Hut the term balneum is inapplicable to such, since Celsus evidently