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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    fourjiuidrachmsfir half a fluid ounce\. Cochleatim. Spoonful by spoon- ful. ‘Cyathus ;* ^cyatbus vinarius; ’A drinking cup [ge- ^cyathiis magnus. nerally understood to mean a wineglass of the capacity of two flidd ounces']; also a measure for liquids ; ^a ■wine- glass ; ®a large drinking cup [^ge- nerally understood to mean a tumbler of the capacity of eight fluid ounces]. 'Poculum ;t ^pocillum ; ®vas- 'A cve^ [generally U7i- culum. derstood to mean * Cyaihus (from Kvaflos) 'was a sort of vessel used by the Romans to measure the •wine and •water that were poured into cups. It was equal to four liguloe. Dr. Grieve (Trans- lation of Celsus) states that it was equal to the one-twelfth part of the English wine pint. It was also used to indicate anything to drink out of. Cantharus (from (carflapos) was a sort of cup, somewhat larger than the cyathus, and having a handle; in other words, a kind of tankard, ^yphm (from <xKv<l>os) was a kind of bowl, without either foot or handle, used in ancient times to drink out of. Cvpa was a cup or drinking-vessel used in taverns or other drinking-houses. t Poculum, a drinking-cup. It was also said of the liquor itself.