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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    ■ Sanguisiigiiim, Callisen.* Sanguisuction or leeching. (The extraction of blood from the cutaneous vessels by the suc- tion of leeches.) j Hirudines apponere, Aueel. ; To apply leeches, admovere, accommodare, adhibere, defigere, affigere, imponere [see Cucurbitula, p. 22]. ’Levibus plagisf incidere, ’To make superficial Cels., secare. — ^Scarifi- incisions, ’’to sca- care, Atjrel. rify. ■ Si per hsec parum proflcitrir. If from these things ultimum est, incidere satis but little good ; former being termed Sanguisuga (or Eirudo) medicinalis; and the latter, Sanguisuga (or Eirudo) officinalis. But ! Moqnin-Tandon {Monographic de la famille des Eirudindes, 1846) regards them as varieties of the same species, which he calls Eirudo medicinalis. The Ecemopissanguisuga, Moq.-Tand., or horse-leech, was formerly dreaded on account of the supposed dangerous wounds which it was said to make; but it appears from the ' reports of MM. Huzard flls and Pelletier, confirmed by those of M. Moqnin-Tandon, that though it sucks the blood, and ■ punctures the mucous membranes, it cannot perforate the skin of vertebrate animals. Leeches belong to the .4rh’culaia I of Cuvier, class Annelida, order Ahranchidea, of the same naturalist. • Systema Chirurgice Eodiemoe, p. 100, Hafn. 1815. t Plaga is used by Celsus to signify an incision.