The pharmaceutical Latin grammar : being an easy introduction to medical Latin, the London pharmacopoeia, and the perusal of physicians' prescriptions.

  • Cooley, Arnold James.
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[1845]
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Credit: The pharmaceutical Latin grammar : being an easy introduction to medical Latin, the London pharmacopoeia, and the perusal of physicians' prescriptions. 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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    INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THIS BOOK. The student is recommended first to carefully peruse the intro- ductory chapter on general grammar, the Orthography, and that portion of the Prosody which treats of quantity and accent, after which he may proceed to commit to memory the whole of the Ety- mology, which is printed in the larger type, at the same time attentively reading the exceptions, notes, and observations, that he may know where such information may be found. He should also carefiilly decline, compare, or conjugate the exercises on the sub- stantive, adjective, and verb, as they occur. He should next commit to memory the directions for parsing (p. 104), and the first rule of construction (p. 105), when he may commence the Syntax, each rule of which he should commit to memory, and attentively examine the examples, notes, and observations, as before directed. The exercises on the rules of Syntax must be carefully parsed and con- strued in their proper places, according to the directions for parsing and the rule of construction previously learned. In doing this, the portion of the rule or observations illustrated by each exercise should be particularly pointed out. As the pupil advances in the Syntax, he may advantageously commit to memory the remaining rules of construction, and apply them in the translation of the exercises accompanying the corresponding rules of Syntax. The student should next learn the whole of the rules of Prosody referring to quantity, accent, and the increase of nouns; after which he may peruse the remaining portion of the Prosody and the Appendix. He may now at once proceed to the Pharmacopoeia, which he will find little difiiculty in construing by the aid of a Latin dictionary and the careful application of the rules contained in the Grammar.*= * The student, at this period of his studies, will derive great advantage from comparing his own translation of the Pharmacopoeia with the more elegant one of Mr. Phillips. In this way he will soon learn that accurate translation requires something more than the mere interpretation of words taken individually. If the student be unacquainted with the rudiments of Chemistry, he should accom-