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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    cernitar; quod descendit. Cels.—Sedes.* Fceces.f Finns et fiiiium. 'Alvus cita; 2alvus soluta; 8alvus fusa; 4alvus flu ens; 6alvus liquida, Cels.—6Alvus fluida.—'Kesolutio alvi, Cels. H'enter fusus; 9venter li- quidus, Cels. — 10Ventris fluor, Cels.—uVentris reso- lutio, Cels.—12Ventris flux- iones; 13solutiones, Pliny.— lsDejectiones crebrae.—15Ca- tharsis.J—16Diarrhoea.—17Co- prophoria.^j dure; alvine evacuations. Dung or ordure of man, birds, cat- tle, &c. Frequent, loose, or liquid stools.— Purging; loose- ness.— (JB e 11 y [o?*stools] quick- ly moved, loos- ened; 'relaxed; Moose or flowing; sliquid; 6fluid; 'looseness of. 8Bully relaxed or loose; 91 i q u i d; 10flux of; uloose- ness of; 12alvine flux; 13a 1 v i n e looseness; ufre- quentdejections; 15p urging; * Scdcs means, literally, a seat; in an exteuded sense, the fun- dament. It is also applied to that which comes from the funda- ment, or, in other words, an evacuation.—Pharmaceutical Guide. f Faces, the nom. pi. from fax, cecis, f. a noun wanting the gen. p We meet with Faces vini, Faces ace.ti, &c. in classical authors, but nowhere Faces hominis: the word in tins sense is iiy and improper.—Horee Subsecivce. J Catharsis is not found in Latin dictionaries. It is a Greek word (xdOapK;; from Ka6aipw, purgo) adopted by Latin writers, and means a purging It is thus declined: N. Catharsis. D. Catharsi. V. Catharsi. Q. Catharseos. A. Catharsin. Ab. Catharsi. § Coprophoria idem quodPurgatio, exKoirpos, stercus, et<£ope'(o, fero, gesto.—Blancard, Lexic. Medicum.