The book of prescriptions : containing more than 3000 prescriptions collected from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons English and foreign ; comprising also a compendious history of the materia medica, lists of the doses of all officinal or established preparations and an index of diseases and remedies / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The book of prescriptions : containing more than 3000 prescriptions collected from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons English and foreign ; comprising also a compendious history of the materia medica, lists of the doses of all officinal or established preparations and an index of diseases and remedies / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    liant, though not the most historically important con- tribution. In Cicero's frequent and extremely flexible use of the word, every variation of the concept of form that could possibly have been suggested by his political, publicistic, juridical, and philosophical activity, seems to be represented; and his use of the word reveals his lovable, volatile, and vacillating nature. Often he ap- plies it to man, sometimes in tones of pathos. In Pro S. Roscio (63), he writes: portentum atque monstrum certissimum est, esse aliquem humana specie et figura, qui tantum immanitate bestias vicerit, ut . . . (it is unquestionably an unnatural and monstrous thing, that a being in human form and figura should exist so far surpassing the wild beasts in savagery that . . .). And in Pro Q. Roscio (20) tacita corporis figura (the silent figura of a body) is the silent mien whose mere appearance betrays the scoundrel. The limbs and in- ner organs, animals, utensils, stars, in short all per- ceptible things have figura, and so do the gods and the universe as a whole. The sense of appearance and even semblance contained in the Greek schema emerges clearly when he says that the tyrant has only figura hominis (the semblance of a man) and that immaterial conceptions of God are without figura and sensus (appearance and perception). Clear distinc- tions between figura and forma are rare (e.g., De na- tura deorum I, 90; cf. note 7 above), and neither is confined to the realm of the visual; Cicero speaks of figura vocis (of the voice), figura negotii (types of occupation), and quite frequently of figurae dicendi (figures of speech). Of course geometric and stereo- metric forms also possess a figura. However, figura in the sense of copy or image is scarcely developed in Cicero. In De natura deorum (I, 71), to be sure, it is said that Cotta, one of the participants in the dia-