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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    Uti aquis frigidis, Cels.— To use the cold bath. Balneum frigidum* —A cold bath. Calidus vapor, Cels.—Bal- Hot vapour.—A vapour neum vajporis.f—Vapora- bath, rium. ^emicupium ; excathisma ; 'The half-bath, or slip- encathisma ; insessio ; in- per bath.—2The hip- sessus.—2Coxseluvium. — bath. — 3The foot- 3Pediluvium.—4Capitilu- bath.—4The head- vium.—5Manuluvium. bath. — 5The hand- bath. Multa calida aqua per caput To pour much hot se totum perfundere, turn water over his head tepida, deinde frigida, [so that it may run Cels. over all his body], then tepid, and, last- ly, cold water. Utar semicupio ad x. vel. Let the patient use the in which are seen the laconicum (so called from being first used in Laconia), a brazen furnace to heat the room, and persons sitting on the steps; the fifth is the balneum, with its huge basin {labrum) supplied by pipes communi- cating with three large bronze vases, called milliaria, from their capaciousness; the lower one contained hot, the upper one cold, and the middle one tepid water. The bathers returned back to the frigidarium, which sometimes con- tained a cold bath. The subterranean portion of the build- ing, where the fires were placed for healing the baths, was called hypocaustum.—The strigil (a in the above cut) waa a scraper, or currycomb, used at baths to scrape the skin. —Celsus (lib. vi. cap. 7) uses the term to signify a tube, or syringe. * As the term balneum applies to a heated water bath, it is obvious that the phrase balneum frigidum is in- correct. t Equally improper is the phrase balneum vaporis.— Celsus regards calidus vapor as one kind of siccus color.