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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    stercus ; alons ;* quod ex- cemitur; quod descendit. Gels.—Sedes.f F(Sces.Z IFimis et fimum. “Alrus cita; ’^alvus soluta; ^ alvus fusa; %lvus fluens; ® alvus liquida, Cels.— ^Ahuis fluida.—’ Eesolutio ah-i, Cels.—® Venter fusus; ® venter liquidus, Cfjls.— ’®Ventris fluor, Cels.— '' Ventris resolutio, Cels. _ '^Ventrisfluxiones ;'®solu- Itiones, Plik. — Dejec- tiones crebrse. — Ca- tharsis.!— Diarrhoea. — ments; ordure; al- vine evacuations. Dung or ordure of man, birds, cattle, &c. Prequent, loose, or liquid stools.— Purging; loose- ness. (* * Belly [or stools] quickly moved, ^loosened; ^relaxed; doose or flowing ; ® liquid ; ®fluid, ^looseness of.—® Belly relax- ed or loose; ® li- quid ; flux of; * Alvus, i, fem. and sometimes masc. It signifies tlie i belly, the bowels, and also the stools. t &des means, literally, a seat; in an extended sense, the tfnndament. It is also applied to that which comes from .'the fundament, or, in other words, an evacuation.—PAar- maceiUical Guide. t Faeces, the nom. pi. from faex, cecis, f. a noun wanting ^bhe gen. pi. “ We meet with Fceces vini. Faeces aceti, &c. in fclassical authors, but nowhere Fceces hominis : the word in Uthis sense Is altogether unnecessary and improi)er.”—Horca h-Subsecivce. § Ca/Aarm is not found In Latin dictionaries. It is a Greek *word (Kd6ap<Tic, from KaQaipo purgo) adopted by Latin •writers, and means a purging. It is thus declined : N. Catharsis. D. Catharsi. V. Catharsi. G. Calharseos. A. Catharsin. Ah. Catharsi.