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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    I'' Vesicatorium.—* Tela Vesi- *A vesicatory or blis- catoria;* ®sericumvesicans ter.f—* Blistering {French Codex); taflfeta tissue [cloth]; vesicatoria; * pannus vesi- ^blistering taffeta ; catorius ; ® charta vesica- ■* blistering cloth ; toria. ® blistering paper. Wesicare ; quod vesicat. To raise a blister ; that which raises a blister [i.e. a vesicatory]. I0sque ad vesicationem. Until vesication is produced. CJicatricem inducere, perdu- To promote [the cere, Cels. formation of] a cicatrix. LUlcus diuturnum, Cels, A long - continued ulcer [as the so- called perpetual blister], F?luxum elicere. To promote the dis- charge. • This term is applied to both cloth and paper covered rvith a preparation of cantharidin. It comprehends, there- aore, the papier ipUpastique and taffetas vesicant of the ?^rench. t The word blister signifies both a vesicating substance «e,g. emplastrum cant/iaridis) and a vesicle or bleb (vesicula vel bulla). This circumstance, it is presumed, led the writer <if a prescription to commit the following gross blunder :— ‘ ‘ Applicetur emplastrum lyttse thoraci, et servetur apertum sisu cerati sabinm.” Query ; What is to be kept open ?