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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    \_The following BemarJcs are addressed to the youthful Student, and also to those who have neglected the study of English Grammar.'] Foe the purpose of presenting at a glance the characteristic terminations of the declensions and conjugations, the radical part of the word, or that portion which is not varied by inflection, has in most instances been omitted in the oblique cases of nouns and the second and third persons of the tenses of verbs. By this method, it will be found that the eye of the tyro will be less fatigued, and useless repetitions will be avoided. The student has merely to add the terminational letter or letters that follow the syllabic hyphen, to the radical or constant portion of the word that precedes that character, to produce the various cases, persons, &c. Thus, the first example, at p. 11, is Nom. Mistur-a, a mixture. Gen, -88, of a mixture. Dat. -3D, to a mixture. Accus. -am. a mixture. Voc. -a. 0 mixture. Abl. -a, from a mixture. ed to be read : Nom. Mistura, &c. Gen. Misturse. Dat, Misturse. Accus. Misturam. Voc. Mistu ra. Ahl. Mistura. The same explanation applies to all the examples of substantives, adjectives, and pronouns. In the examples of the conjugations of verbs, only the first person of each tense has been given in full, and the other persons are made by the addition of the characteristic terminations that follow, to the portion of the first person that precedes the hyphen, in the same way as above. Thus, at p. 37 is found, Am-o, I, &c. -as, thou, &c. -at, he, &c. Which must be read, A mo, &c. amas, &c. amat, &c.