The physician's prescription book : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : the grammatical construction of prescriptions ... 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:
1865
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Credit: The physician's prescription book : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : the grammatical construction of prescriptions ... 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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    Sanguisugium, Callisen.* Sanguisuction or leeching. (The extraction of blood from the cutaneous ves- sels by the suc- tion 01 leeches.) Hirudines apponere, A.tjrel. ; To apply leeches. admovere, accommodare, ad- hibere, defigere, affigere, im- ponere [set Cucurbitula, p. 1S1- 'Levibusplagisfincidere, Cels., 'To make super- ire.— 2Scarificare, Atjrel. ficial incisions, 2 to scarify. Si per haec parum proficitur, If from these ultlmum est, incidere satis things but little altis plagis sub ipsis maxillis good arise, the supra collum, et in pallato last [rented;/] is eirca uvam, vel eas venas quae to make suffi- Bub lingua sunt ; ut per ea ciently deep in- vulnera morbus erumpat, cisions under the Cels. jaws above the neck, and in the palate about the lafamilie des Hirudin, <>$, 1846) regards them as varieties of the same species, which he calls Hirudo medicinalis. The Hamojiin sanguisuga, Moq-Tand., or horse-leech, was y dreaded oo account of the Bupposed dangerous wounds which it was said id make.; but it appears from the reports of MM. Huzanl fits and Pelletier, confirmed by those of M. Moquin- Tandon, that though it sucks the blood, and punctures the in neons membranes it cannol perforate the Bkin of vertebrate animals. Leechc- belong to the Arliculata of Cuvier, cl Abranchidra of the same naturalist. gic Hodv rna, p. 100, Hafn. 1815. t Plaga is used by Celsus to siguify an incision,