Selecta è praescriptis : Selections from physicians' prescriptions; containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions, and abbreviations used in prescriptions ... For the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / [edited by Joseph Inge].

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853
Date:
1890
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    Chapteb III. FF THE PAETS OF A PEESCEIPTION.* TThe parts of a prescription or formula are tlie (lading, the designation of the ingredients to be ced, the directions to the compounder, and the rrections to the patient. At the bottom of the eescription are placed, on the left hand, the )me of the patient and the date (in separate lues); and, on the right hand, the signature of eeprescriber. Custom varies in this respect. Iln ancient times every prescription or formula ,f,d, at its commencement, certain characters, ilbreviations, or sentences of a superstitious or oous nature : such as + (the sign of the cross); und CO (the first and last letters of the Greek f phabet, Christ being designated the “ Alpha and ‘ ‘ For further details on the subject of this chapter, the uder is referred to H. D. Gaubii Libellus de Methodo con- Mtaitdi Formulas Medicamento?’um, Lugd. Batav. 1739 ; 3tia, 1767. An English translation of tliis work was pub- Uied under the title of A Complete Extemporaneous IHspen- ’ion/; or, the Method of Presciibing, Compounding, and khibiting Extemporaneous Medicines, 2nd edit. 1742.—See »io Paris’s Pharmacologia, 9th ed. 1843 ; and Phoebus’s iindbuch der Arzneicerordnnngslehre, 3tte‘ Ausg., 1839.