Selecta è præscriptis = selections from physicians' prescriptions : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes ... and a series of abbreviated prescriptions illustrating the use of the preceding terms 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 / by Jonathan Pereira.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1873
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Credit: Selecta è præscriptis = selections from physicians' prescriptions : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes ... and a series of abbreviated prescriptions illustrating the use of the preceding terms 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 / by Jonathan Pereira. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    riperseded the two last-named, is published in jmglish. There is an obvious advantage to the natives of country in having a pharmacopceia in their :other-tongue; but, for the use of foreigners, the latin language would be more convenient. Hence . some countries, as Greece, the pharmacopoeia published in both Latin and the vernacular lan- loage. In the Pharmacopoiia of the United States r America for 1831, this plan was adopted; but 1 the edition of this work published in 1842, and . subsequent editions, the English language has leeen exclusively employed. IHAP. V.—Teems and Phrases empeoted in Peesceiptions. B3CT. 1.—Be sanguinis mis- Of General Blood- sione * generali.] letting. '* On the chronology and literature of blood-letting, Donsnlt Vertueh eiver Ckronologie vnd Litei'aiur nehst einem i'/stem der BhitentMehungen. Aus dm vorzUglichsten WerTcm tesehSpft von Dr. Carl Fried. Nopitseb. NUmberg, 1833. t “ The propriety of this and all similar words as applied to Hood-letting, notwithstanding the opinion of Dr. Gregory, boat ‘ Sanguinis missio non inepte vocatur generahs,’ when ;. is intended that its effects should be general, I must con- kder to be very qnesticmable. They seem to signify that a man Is to be pricked all over for the purpose of drawing Hood from him, rather than anything relative to the effects J t bleeding,”—llora: Subtecivcg.