A pharmaceutical guide : in two parts ... / By the author of The student's manual ... [i.e. Richard Harrison Black].

  • Black, R. Harrison (Richard Harrison)
Date:
1822
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Credit: A pharmaceutical guide : in two parts ... / By the author of The student's manual ... [i.e. Richard Harrison Black]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Injiciatur enema purgans—Let a purging enema be i fee ted, (or, administered, or, thrown up.) Abradatur capillitium, et admoveatur toti capiti emph iirum lyttce—Let the hair be shaved off, and let a blisl be applied to the whole head. Fiat haustus, mitte tales quatuor—Let a draught be mac send four such, (or, four of the same kind.) Probe contrUa, divide in partes ires equates—Being rn bed well together, divide into three equal parts. Repetantur medicamenta heri proscripta—Let the me cines prescribed yesterday be repeated. [Glim preescrip means “ formerly prescribed;J> nuper proscripta, “ lat prescribednuperrime proscripta, “ very lately prescr ed.”] V J Fiat venecsectio1 ad uncias octo—Let venesection (tl is, bleeding) be performed (and let blood be drawn) to ei< ounces. i Phlebotomy, which signifies the same as vencesectio, is derived from Greek words <;pXtfios, (phlebos,) the genitive case of (phleps,) a vein, vt/uve», (temno,) to cut. Venesection is compounded of the Latio w< venae and sectio. FINIS, J. Hill, Printer, 32, Water Lane, Biackfriars.