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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    oftheLyncurium [Tourma- line ?] on straws and me- tallic 'plates. ’Torpere ; ^torpescere ; ®ob- torpere (Pliny uses all these three verbs to signify the benumbing effect of the electric discharge of the torpedo). Electrisatio; electrificatio. Electricitas positiva; nega- tiva. Electricitas frictione (vitri, sulphuris, corporum rcsi- nosorum, ^c.) obtenta. Machina electrica. Machina electrica cylindrica; cylindro vitreo instructa; domini Nairnei. Machina electrica discoidea; disco vitreo polito in- structa ; domini Cuthbert- soni.* 'To be numbed or benumbed; Ho grow torpid or be- numbed ; ®to grow numb. Electrisation (the act of electrifying). Electricity positive; negative. Electricity obtained by friction (of glass, stdphur, re- sinous bodies, ^’C.); friction electri- city. An electric machine. A cylindrical electri- cal machine; made with a glass cylin- der; Mr. Nairne’s. A plate electrical machine made with a polished glass plate (disk); Mr. Cuthbertson’s. * When vegetable species are named after individuals,