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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    Lumbricus latus; lumbricus The tapeworm teres, Cels. {Taenia solium); the round worm. Quod expellit vermes; anthel- That which expels minticum ;* helminthagog- worms; an an- um; vermifugum. thelmintic or vermifuge. Sect. 12.—De balneis; de fo- Of Baths.—Of mentis, &c. Fomentations, (Sec. •Balneum,! Cels.; Balineum. 'A bath [private]. aBalnae'; Balinae.—3Balneum 2Baths [public], medicatum. 3A medicated bath. Balneum fervens (sen fervi- The hot, warm, and dum), calidum, tepidum.J tepid bath [arti- ficial]. Tepidarium, Cels. A tepid bath. 17. Ascaris lumbricoides, Long round-worm. In the small intestine, 18. Ascaris vermicularis, Maw-worm or thread-worm. In the rectum. * From di'i-l, against; and, e\nivt a worm. t Balneum and balineum were used for the water-hath, which every mas er of a fam'ly had iu his house; balnea and balinece, for public bathing-places. All referred to baths artificially heated The cold bath and shower bath, therefore, and, in pharmacy, the sand bath, water bath, &c, require a very differ- ent form of expression.—Horas Subsec. J The temperature of the different kinds of baths is as follows: Deg. Fahr. 1. Very cold from 33to SO 2. Cold 50..£ I 65 3. Cool 65.. : ■ 85 1. Tepid 85. .8 f 92 5. Warm : 92 98 6. Hot 9S the highest degree of heat the pa- tient can bear, perhaps 110 or 112 5*