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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    C!uciirbitulasiiieferro,* *CELS. —Cucurbitse leyes.f Ad- REL. — Cucurbitula sine scarificatione,— cucurbjta sicca. ’Cucurbitse cum scarifica- tione,ADEEL.^Cucurbitula cruenta; ^cucurbitula cum ferro. Cucurbitse arentes atque siccatse4 Aubel. The cueurbital (cup- ping-glass) -without the scarificator (i.e. dry cupping, or cupping -without scarification). ’The cucurbits [l e, cupping - glasses] with scarification ; ^the bloody cup- ping - glass; ®tho cupping-glass -with the scarificator. Parched and dried cupping - glasses {cupping - glasses affixed by means of simply ventosa, -without the adjunct, is a term used by some ■writers to indicate the cupping-glass generally. Others {e.g. Castelli, in laiB Lexicon Medicum) limit it to the dry cupping-glass. * Ferrum signifies iron, and also any instrument made of iron, as the cupping scarificator. t CucurbiiCE leces, literally the light, gentle, or mild cucurbits. “ Infigimus praeterea cucurbitas leves, quas Greed /cov(f>as vocant,scilicetsine scarificatione.” (Gael. Aurel. Acut. Morb. lib. iii. cap. 21, p. 268, Amstel. 1722.) t “ Arentes et siccas cucurbitulas dicit, quas adraoventur cum flamma. Interdum enim cum aqua callda apponebatur, quemadmodum scripsit Albucasis, cap. De usu cucurbitu- larum.” (Gael. Anrel. ed. supra cit. p. 31, foot-note by Dr, J. G. Amman.)