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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    14. —Eepetatur venaesectio ad tres alias vices Id eandem quantitatem, tribus diebus sequentibus, uiiando dolor et respirandi difficultas suadeant. venesection be repeated to the same quantity, uree other times, on the three following days, when Tpain and difficulty of breatkmg require it. 15. —Die sequenii celebretur iteruin venaesectio i I eandem qu4 antea quantitatem. On the follow- ,g day let venesection be again performed, to the wme quantity as before. ;16.—Mittatur sanguis 5 brachio ad uncias duo- :cim quamprimum, ac postea ex vend jugulari . uncias octo. Let blood be taken from the arm f twelve ounces as soon as possible, and afterwards rm the jugular vein to eight ounces. 117. —Sanguis denud mittendus est ad imcias :cem tantum. Blood is to be again taken to ten ces only. 118. —Mittatur sanguis de novo, et repetatur ad 'umi fere deliquium. Let blood be again taken zay, and {the oyer ation) repeated almost to fainting. 19.—Extrahatur sanguis h brachio; et eodem post aliquot horas, vel die sequenti duabus i ’is post leve prandium, capiat pulverem emeti- m. Let blood be drawn from the arm; and on same day, after [i.e. at the expiration of] a few t rs, or on the following day, two hours after a light *ner, let the patient take an emetio powder.