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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    neum. *'Sericum; taffeta. cloth; '“woollen cloth. Silk ; taf- feta (afine, sTtwoth, glossy,silky tissue). Emplastrum illinere. To spread a plaster. In alutara extendendum, in- To be spread upon ducendum. leather. Emplastrum in linteolo super- A plaster \spread\ imponendmn, Cels. on a small piece ' of linen is to be put over [i^]. 'Emplastrum ad exemplar 'A plaster to pattern; {vel ad uormam*^); *hujus * of this size. ; magnitudinis. j ‘Magnitude hujus chartse; 'The size, of this ® semi-coronse nummi. paper; ® of a half- crown piece. Pollex latus; pollicaris lati- A thumb’s breadth. | tudo. Eenovare emplastrum. To renew the plaster. Emplastra ad extrahendum, Plasters for drawing; Cels. ; epispastica (en-t- epispastics. (TTroirTJKt^.f). i * Ad normam, according to law, custom, or pattern, I t “ Wliat the ancients called epispastica were snch ex-' ternal applications as only reddened the skin, and, according i to the different degree of effect, received different names;: the slightest were called phcenigmoi^ the next sinapismi, the i more active vesicaiorii, and the strongest oaustici.” Parr, j Med, Dki. I