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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    234. —Eecipe, Extract! Cannabis Indicae grana quinquo Vespere ante somnuiu sumenda. To be taken in the evening before sleep. 235. —Eecipe, Extract! Colocynth!d!s, drachmam unam E!ant p!lulse duodecim. Sumat unam, sextis horis, donee commodfe purgetur. Let twelve pills be made. Let the patient take one every sue hours, until suffi- ciently purged. 236. —Eec!pe, Pulver!s Ipecacuanhse, grana v!- gint! qu!nque Ant!mou!! Potass!o-Tartrat!s gra- num unum F!at pulvuB emeticus ; et paux!llo alicujus liquoris idone! hauriatur, et vomitu motu, superb!bantur cyath! aliquot !nfus! anthem!d!s tepid!. Let an emetic powder be made: let it be taken in a little of any proper liquor, and when vomiting comes on, let some cupfuls of warm infusion of camomile flowers be drunk. 2Z1.—Eecipe, Pulveris Cinchonae, drachmas tres Divide in partes duodecim [quarum] capiat unam, secundA, vel tertiS, qu&que herd, ex cyatbo parvo lactis vaccini recentis, absente febre. Divide into twelve equal parts, of which let the patient take one every second or third hour, in a small cupful of fresh cow's milk, during the absence of the fever.