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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