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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    Thermae.* Hot baths [natu- ral]. 'Lavatio,f Cels.—2Lavacrum. 'A washing or bath in g.— -A bath or washing place. Ablutio, Pliny. Ablution. ■In balneum ire ; sincere in bal- rTo go into a bath; neuin; 3uti balneo calido; 2to take [liim| in balneum mittere, Cels. ; into a bath ; 3to demittere in balneum; de- use the warm scendere in balneum. bath; t o p u t [h i in] i n t ii a bath. Eliccre sudorem sicco calore, To procure sweat Cels.—Balneum siccum.% by dry heat.—A dry bath. * Thermo: signifies baths of water naturally hot: balnea, baths made hot by fire. Hence the phrase balnea mxneralia is not correct f Larniin also signifies a bathing vessel. + By tlie term h/ilncum siccum, or dry bull), are meant appli- cations of dry heated substances (as hoi air, Band, ashes, salt, &c ) to the -kin in promote sweating. But the term balneumle inapplicable to such, since Celsus evidently c manes it to a water bath,—while, under the head of ,l .siccus color, he includes amia calida, the laconicum, and the cHbanum (lib ii. c. 17). The terms Sudatorium, Laconicum, and Clibanum, were applied to different kinds of dry baths. The Sudatorium was a swi house. The Laconicum was a hot and dry room at a bath in which sweat was excited; it was, iu fact, a Sudatorium. CM- banum was the name of a particular kind of oven among the Romans. As it is mentioned by Celsus, besides the Laconicnm, or hot room at the bath, he probably intends by it a stove placed in a common room so as to heat it. In the baths of the Romans there were five apartments: the eleolherium. the frigidarium, the tepidarium, the concamerata sudalio (calidarium or laco- nicum), and the balneum. BATHS OF THE ROMANS. From a painting found at the Therma of Titus (De Montfaucon),