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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    BBalneum* electricum. t'Electricitate per scintillas \yel per ictus] afficere. ?v5cintillas elicere, educere. Scintillas admovere, iilectricitas voltaica (galva- nica vel animalis). Vol- ta ismus ; Galvanismus. {Eleciricitas metcdlica ; ir- ritamentum metallicum /.') The electric bath. To electrify \to af- fect or influence with electricity^ by sparks \or by shocks]. To draw sparks (from the body). To give {or commu- nicate) sparks. Voltaic (galvanic or animal) electri- city. Voltaism or Galvanism. {Me- tallic electricity,\.Q. electricity of me- tals, or the metallic incitor ! !) Has been applied to a mode of electrifying which consists ! 1 drawing sparks from the patient through a piece of flannel. »3ee Cavallo, Complete Treatise on Electricity, vol. ii. p. 136, 11 ed.) * • The correct meaning of the word balneum will b'i trplained hereafter (See Sect. 12. De halneis). The term \ilneum electricum is used by Cai.lisen and others. It applied to the simple commnnication established between J1 individnal and the excited prime conductor of an electric machine, by means of a chain, or other metallic commuiiiea- ivon. The individual is generally seated on an insulated <>>ool (scabellum insulatum). Rostan (Diet, de AUdecine), 5 Dwover, states that the individual may, or may not, be in- itiated.