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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    'Semicupium ; excathisma ; en- cathisma; insessio; insessus, 2Coxeeluvium.—'Pediluvium. 'Capitiluviuui. — BManuluvi- ura. Multa calida aqua per caput se tut uin perfundere,tumtepida, deinde frigida, Cels. Utar semicupio ad x. vel. xij. minuta horae in aqua adhuc calcnti modice. Pedes cruraque in aquam cali- dain demittere. Perfusio corporis aqua, calida. Lavare egelida* aqua. lThe half-bath, or slipper-b a th.— -The hip-bath.— 'The foot-bath.— 4The head-bath. BThe hand-bath. To pour much hot water over his head [ so that it may run over all his body], then tepid, and, last- ly, cold water. Let the patient use the h a 1 f-b a t h, made moderate- ly warm, for ten or twelve mi- nutes. To bathe the feet and legs in warm water. The affusion of the body with warm water. To use tepid wash- ing. * Oelidus and tcjtlidus agree in denoting objects not as in a state of heat, batdiffer in respect to the distance of each from thai state The first term (from gelu, frost or ice) applies to waterthal is either frozen or just at the freezing point. Egelidus diffei gelidus, in denoting a diminution of the cold implied in the latter, or a step in the progress towards heat.—See Bill's Vict of Syno- nyms. Gerard [Thesaurus) defines the word egeltdus, fthns:— Qimd gelu. amisit, et jam non est caiidum neque frigidum,— tepidum.