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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    let two drachms of bruised liquoricc-root be added toward the end of the coction, and strain: of this let the patient take three table-spoonfuls three times a-day. Octobris die decimo. CHAP. V.—Forms for Powders, Pills, etc. 204.—Prosit forsan date segto, lectum ituto, Piilveris Hydrargyti siibcbloridi grana quinqtie. Perhaps it ^lay be beneficial to give the patient, when about going to bed, five grains of subchloride of mercury. u 206.—Pecipe, CocciBellffi, scriipulutn Sodii Chloridi, drachmas duas Misce. Fiat pulvis. Hetut cochleare dimidium pro dosi, tempore matutino. Mix. Let a powder ^ be made. Let half a spoonful be given for a dose, in the morning. 206.. -Pecipe, Pulveris Jalapie, drachtnas duaS Hydratgyri subchloridi, semi* drachmam Misce. Dentur grana duodecim ad vigiuti et qua-i tuor, quando alvi ductione opus sit. Mix. Let [from'] twelve to twenty-four grkins be given xvhen there may be occasion to open the bowel. Cl