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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    paper ; 2pack or brown paper; 3blue paper; 4writing pa- per;''fine paper;6 wax- ed paper ; 'smooth paper; 8test paper [blue or reddened]. 'Clean paper (not writ- ten on); 2waste paper. Let them be sent in tica; 3c. cserulea ; 4c. epistolaris ; 5c. augusta ; 6c. cerata; 7c. laevigata seu dentata ; 8c. explora- toria [caorulea vel rube- facta]. 'Charta pura ; 2schediasma. Dentur in chartis. papers. Ad aptam crassitudinem; To a proper consis- ad aptam mollitiem ; ad tence. idoneam spissitatem; ad debitam spissitudinem; ad debitam tenacitatem. Ad gratam aciditatem (vel To an agreeable aci- acerbitatem). dity. Concusso prius vitro ; phi- The bottle being pre- ala, prius concussa ; vase viously shaken.* prius agitato ; ante usum concutiendo lagenani. 'More solito; 2modo prae- 'In the accustomed scripto. maniior; 2in the manner prescribed. Accurately weighed. The effervescence be- ing finished. * The Homoeopathists am of opinion iti.it rubbing or shnkm!.' augments ihe activity of a medicine Hence they lay down itie exact period of time requisite lor these opera- tions, or ilie number of rubs and shakes the medicine is to receive. For example, in dissolving a solid m water, we are told to move the'phial circa axin nnam, and at each attenuation to shake it twice— bis, brachio guidem l/is muto, concute !.' Accurate pensus. Peracta, effcrvescentiu