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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    Lumbricus latus; lumbricus The tape^wom (Tm- teres, Cels. nia solium);—the round worm. Quod expellit vermes; an- That which expels thelminticum ;* * helminth- worms; an ant- agogum ; vermifugum. helmintic or ver- mifuge. Sect. 12.—De balneis ; de Of Baths ; tf Fo- fomentis, ^~c, tnentations, ‘Balneum,t Cels. ; Bali- ‘A bath [private].-^ neum. — ‘‘Balnern ', Bali- ®Baths [public],— Classis COELELMINTHA. 11. Filaria Medinensis, Gninea-wonn. In the cellular tissue. 12. Filaria oculi. In the crystalline lens. 13. Filaria hronchialu. In the bronchial glands. 14. Tricocephalus dispar, Long thread-worm. In the ceecnm and colon. 15. Spiropfera hominis. In the urinary bladder. 1G. Strongylus gigas. Edney. 17. ?«ni6/‘ieM‘dcs,Longronnd-wonn. In the small intestine. 18. ^searww/’»ijc«7an.s, Maw-worm or thread-worm. In the rectum. * From av7L against; and a tcorm. t Balneum and balineum were used for the water bath, which every master of a family had in his house; balnea; and balineoe, for public bathing-places. All referred to baths artificially heated. “ The cold bath and shower bath, there- fore, and, in pharmacy, the sand bath, water bath, &c., re- quire a very different form of expression.”—Iloree Subsec.