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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    tern, verum rect^ libereque prosiliat. Ad § tantum, sal- tern.* blood which flows out may not trickle (or flow) down the skin, but gush out directly and freely. To ounces only, at least. Sect. 2.—De sanguinis mis- sione locali. Of Local Blood- letting. *Ciicurbitula,tCELS.;—* *Cu- 'A cucurbital or cup- curbita,AuREE. Cucurbita piag - glass ; — -a ventosa, Jtrv.|: Cucurbita cucurbit or cup- medicinalis, Pliny. ping-glass. ■ vel qu£e loca fabnlosns Lambit Hydaspes; or “the countries through which the fabulous Hydaspes glides [or flows gently].” * The student should be careful not to confound saltern (at least) with saltim or per saltum (by leaps). t Cucurbitula, a curcubital or cupping-glass, is a diminu- tive of cucurbita, a gourd, and was so called on account of its shape. Cucurbita is also employed to indicate the cu- curbit used in cupping. The term ciicurbitulce is applied to small cucurbits (i.e. cucurbitals). These vessels were for- merly made of brass (or copper) and of horn (Celsns, lib. ii. cap. 11), and to these it is obvious the term cupping-g'fosi is not applicable. —Hippocrates employed cupping. t Cucurbita ventosa (literally, the windy cucurbit), or