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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    'exinanire, ®trahere, ®pur- gare, *®ciere, Pliny; ”deji- cere, Cato.—’^Purgatioiie alvTim solicitare, Cels.— Ventrem '®exinanire,*'*mol- lire, '^liquare, *® solvere, •’resolvere, Cels.—**Sedes promovere. ‘Alvum ducere, subducere, Cels.—®Alvi ductio, Cels. —® Alvi ductione uti, Cels, AAlvam ' astringere, compri- mere, ®contrahere, ^suppri- mere, Cels. ; ®sistere, ®co- hibere, Pliny.—^Ventrem firm are, Cels. ('To loosen; ^move: ®make li- quid; ■'soften; ®eli- cit ; ® evacuate ; ’ empty; ® draw or lead ; ®purge; '®to move or provoke; deject or cast down—belly or stools; 'to solicit thebelly[orstools] by purgation; *®to empty, tosoften, '®make liquid; '® loosen; un- loosen the belly; ’®to promote stools.) 'To act on the bowels by clyster.—'•'Tlie action on the bow- els by clyster.— ®To use clysters. To bind or astringe the bowels. — To constipate. ' To bind ; * consti- pate ; ® contract; ■•suppress; * stop; “restrain bowels or stools; ’to bind the belly.