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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    Dosi pedetentini crescente. Gradually increas- ing the dose. Cochlear, Cels. ; Cochlea. A spoon. Cochleare; cochleare pie- A spoonful {when num,* * Cels. ; — Coch- vo qualification is learium ;f cochlearii men- added to it, it is sura, Pliny. generally under- stood to mean “ a tablespoonful ”]. Cochleare parvulum {yel mi- A small, tea, or nimum; vel infantis). child’s spoonful {equal to onefiui- drachmi]. Cochleare modicum {yel me- A middling - sized dium; vel mediocre). dessert or pap spoonful {equal to two fluidrachms']. Cochleare magnum {vel lar- A large or table- gum ; vel amplum). spoonful {equal to “ in dififerent doses,” or “ at different times.” Vicihus is the ablative plural of vicis, and partitis the ablative plural of partitus, the paiT.iciple of parlior. * Cochleare, and (per apocopen) cochlear, arts, n. signifles a sjwon, a measure, and a siwonful. As a Eoman measure of cajMicity it is said (Littleton’s Latin DicHonani) to have been equal to the ligula, that is, one-fourth part of the cyathm, and consequently, the one-forty-eighth part of the English vine-pint, or one-third of the fluid ounce. t Cochlearium, rii, n. signifles a measure of liquids, a spoonful, &c. As a Eoman measure of liquids, it is said to have been the one-twelfth part of the cyathus, and, there- fore, the one-third part of the cochleare.