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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    Acu idone4 serici fasciculum ducente perforetur cutis colli posterioris partis,seri- co in vulnere relicto; utfiat diuturna suppuratio. Quo- ties pus effiindis cessaverit {yel hdc deficiente) illinatur scricum unguento sabinse. Acus admovere, Cels. Acu ’apprehendere, -trans- uere, ^trajicere, Cels. Cutom candentibus ferratnen- tis exulcerare, Cels. Non, ut primum fieri potest, ulcera sanare, Cels. Turn, qua note sunt, cutis acu filum ducente trans- Let the skin at the back part of the neck be perforated by a proper needle carrying a skein of silk; the silk being left within the ■wound to excite a constant discharge of pus. Whenever the pus ceases to be discharged {or when the pus is deficient in qimn- tity), let the silk be anointed with savine ointment. To apply a needle. To hake hold of, '■'sew through, ^traverse —with a needle. To make ulcers in the skin by hot irons \i.e. by the actual cautery]. Not to heal the ul- cers as soon as possible. Then, whore the marks are, the