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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    tas; ^iiuraelectrica; ^Jluida electrica ; *virtus festuca- rmn trahax. [^This last phrase occurs in some Latin Dictionaries.^ iTrahere in se {said Pliny of the action on straws, ^c. of amher, when rubbed); ^rapere ad se {said by the same author of the action principle or cause of electrical pheno- mena)-, ^electri- citj \the cause of electrical pheno- mena), ®tlie elec- tric aura; ^the electric fluid; ®the force attracting straws. To attract \electri- cally) ; 'to draw to or towards; *to take suddenly, to catch at. ■>x)wer which amber acquired by being rubbed; and, as Lhe Greeks called amber TjXexTpov, and the Latins electrum, Or. Gilbert (in his Tractatus cte Magnete, Lend. 1600) ailed all bodies which manifested a similar attractive power, lectrics. The word electricity was soon after introduced o indicate the power which electrics thus evinced. It urs in the writings both of Sir Thomas Browne {Inquiries wuto Vulgar and Common Errors, Lond. 1646) and the Hon. '' tobert Boyle {Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Electricity, 16Y6). It was used in a uatin form {eleciricitas) by Euler {Disquisitio de causa •hysica electricitatis, PetropoU [17.56]); by Mx)\a\x^{TeiUamen heorive electricitatis el magnetismi, Petropoli [1751 j); by ' :cari {Expex'imenta atque observationes qiiibus electricitas index late constituitur atque explicalur, August® Tau- i inorum [1769]), and by many other %vriters of the last entury. The word electrisalio was employed in the last entury by Bohadsch {IHssertatio de utilitute electrisationis irt arte medica, Pragre [1761]).