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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    Tota hora, Cels. A whole hour. In horas; singulis horis ; Hourly; every hour, omni hora. Per horam integram. During an hour. Sesquihoris. An hour and a half. Altermi hora ; secunda, Every other hour, hora ; bihorio ; horis in- termediis. Trihorio ; omni tertia hora. Every third hour. Quadrihorio. Every fourth hour. Semihora, Cels. ; semihorio. A half-hour; every half-hour. Omni quadrante hora;. Every quarter of an hour. Horis consuetis. At the accustomed hours. 'Statim ; 2illico ; 3protinus; Immediately ('on the 4extemplo ; 5jam ; 6jam- spot,-without leaving jam; 7quamprimum. the place; 2in that very place, forth- with ; 3at the first, instantly ; ''immedi- ately [custom has given extemplo this meaning : originally it related to auguries]; 5already, even now, immediately [repeat- ed before every mem- ber of a sentence, jam signifies some - times] ; forthwith [ jamjam denote* more celerity than jam]; 7very shortly).