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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    turn.—7Serum lactis alu- minatum; serum alumi- nosum. — 8Serum lactis tamarindatum.—9Saccha- rum lactis; saccholactin. ■Ex gelatina, ribesia, vel ri- besiorum.—2Ex gelatina vituli. 'Ex melle pinguive ullo hu- more ; 2in quovis vehiculo crasso ;* 3in quovis grato vehiculo. 'Spiritus vini gallici.—2Spi- ritus sacchari.—3Spiritus oryzae. — 4Spiritus juni- peri. — 5Spiritus lactis equini. Vinum; merum; J temetum.$ Vinum album vel rubrum. Vinum Capense. 'Vinum Gallicum ; 2V. Bur- gundicum ; 3V. Burdiga- lense ; 4V. Campanicum ; 5V. liubellum seu Helvo- lum vel Gravianum; 6V. Languedocium. * Said to have been translated, in a stout hackney- coach. t Arrack or Rack is the name applied not only to rice spirit (spiritus oryzce), but also to the spirit obtained by dis- tillation from fermented cocoa-nut toddy (by some called Volm wint). | M( rum is properly an adjective, and signifies pure, un- mixed. When said of wine, vinum is understood, and it signifies pure wine. $ Temelum signifies a strong and heady wine. 8 whey. — 8Tamarind ■whey. — 9Sugar of milk or saccholactin. 'In currant jelly.—2In calf's [foot] jelly. 'In honey, or anything thick ; 2in any thick vehicle; 3in any a- greeable vehicle. 'Brandy. — 2Rum. — 3Arrack, f — 4 Gin, Hollands, Geneva.— 5Koumiss. Wine. White or red wine. Cape wine. 'French wine ; bur- gundy ; 3Bordeaux ; 4Champagne; 6Cla- ret; 6Frontignac.