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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    (Cucurbitulas accommodare, To apply cupping- cute incisS, \ycl concisd], glasses, the skin Cels. being cut. Ilnfraprsecordiaquatuordigi- The cupping-glass is tis cucurbitula utendum to be used four est, Cels. fingers below the prsecordia. ?Si vero etiam vehementius But if yet [or not- withstanding] the pain has grown [or become] more in- tense, cupping- glasses are to be applied to the neck, so that the skin may be cut. (Confugiendumque ad cucur- And recourse must bitulas est ante summa be had to the cup- cute incisa, Cels. ping-glasses, the skin being pre- viously cut. Si dolor discussa non est qua If the pain is not dolet, cucurbitulas sine removed, to ap- ferro defigere. Cels, ply the cupping- glasses without the scarificator (i.e. to use dry cupping) to the part affected.^ ' Cucurbitula quoque rectfe sub A cupping-glass is dolor crevit, admovendse cervicibus cucurbitulse sunt, sic ut cutis incidatur, Cels.