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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    Sudorem prohibere, Cels. ; To stop or check sistere, sedare, Pliny ; sweat, compesc ere. Sudatio ; sudationes siccae, Sudation ;—a sweat- Cels. ing; also a sweat- ing place.—Dry sweating places. Usque ad sudorem, Cels, ; Until sweat [ts pro- donee sudor prodeat. duced]. Diaphoresis;* Aueel. A diaphoresis or perspiration. Quod elicit sudores; sudato- That which excites rium; sudorificum; dia- sweats; u, suda- phoreticum. tory; a sudorific; a diaphoretic. Sternutamentum, Cels.— Snec2dng. Sternutatio, A pul. Sternutamenta excitare, mo- To excite sneezings, vere, evocare, Cels. ; fa- cere, Pliny ; concitare, proritare, Scrib. Larg. Quod movet sternutamenta; That which excites sternutamentum ;f sternu- sneezing; a ster- * From Sia<i)opr;(Tis.—Diaphoresis is declined like caiharsit (see p. 49). t In the following passage, Pliny (Hist, Hat. lib. xxr. cap. 109, ed. VaJp.) employs sternutamentum to indicate a sternutatory :—“ Eadem sicca concisa, sternutamentum cst.” Some critics, howoTcr, read “ciet,” others “facU, for “est;” and then sternutamentum signifies sneeeing.