Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis.

  • Edward Curtis
Date:
1895
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Credit: Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    {Metric System: 20 pills @ 0.05 Om. of each in- ■] :^. Massae Hydrargyri, [PulverisJ Aloes Purificatse, [Pulveris] Rhei aa 1.00 Gm. Aquae q. s. M., et in pilulas no. xx. divide. Or, M.: Fiat massa in pilulas no. xx. dividenda.) S.— Two nightly. O. P., M.D., No. 4, Fourth Street. Office-Hours: 8 to 9 a.m., 4 to 5 p.m. August 28, 1894. In example number five the amount is simply the number of pills, of a size and composition already determined by the Pharmacopoeia, which the patient is likely to require for the present need. Assuming by the outlook of the case that the medication will probably have to be kept up for a week or two, and observing that six pills, are used a day, the number five dozen, an allow- ance for ten days, suggests itself as a convenient, round number to order. The prescription then, becomes;