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.

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    'Cochlearis ; 2cochlearis mensura, Pliny. 'Magnitudo ; 2amplitudo ; 3moles ; 4quantitas.* •Ad nucis juglandis magni- tudinem; 2quod fabse mag- nitudinem habet, Cels.— 3Magnitudo nucis avel- lana;, Scrib. Largus ; 4magnitudo castanese ; 5magnitudo fabse equinse. Moles nucis moschatae. Instarf juglandis. 'Quantum satis est \yel sit]; 2quantum res patitur; 'quantum fieri potest; 4quantum tribus digitis comprehendi potest ; 6quantum volet; 6quan- tum vires patiuntur ; 'quantum juvat; 8vinouti quantum libebit, Cels. 'Of, or pertaining to, a spoonful; 2a spoon- ful. 'Magnitude ; Ampli- tude ; 3mass; 4quan- » tity. 'To the size of a wal- nut ; 2that -which has the size of a bean.— 3The size of a filbert- nut ; 4the size of a chestnut; 5the size of a horse-bean. The size of a nutmeg. The size of a walnut. 'As much as is suffi- cient; 2as much as circumstances will allow ; 3as much as can be done, or as far as possible ; 4aa much as cau be held by three fingers; 5aa much as he will; 6as much as the strength belliesful, spoonsmeat, 1 bellyfuls, spoonmeats, ought to have mouthsful, &c, instead of mouihfuls, &c. * Magnitude) is said of any sort of greatness. Amplitudo it said of extent. Moles indicates anything huge and vast. Quantilas is a term of relative import, and, when qualified by some adjunct, may signify much or little. t Instar is usually denominated an indeclinable noun; but Dumesnil (Latin Synon. by the Rev. J. M.Gosset) calls it a preposition requiring the genitive case. Ad instar is not found in the best Latin authors.