Selecta è præscriptis : selections from physicians' prescriptions; containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions, and abbreviations used in prescriptions ... / by Jonathon Pereira.

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853
Date:
1881
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    f.ay. For though, by the adoption of the arbi- vary classical and barbarous names used by the Mcient writers, convenient terms (having no (ijference to the nature or composition of the nbstances to which they are applied) might be jotained for all the older medicines, we should i.ill be obliged to resort to a scientific nomenclature OT newly-discovered substances which have had DD arbitrary or unscientific names given to them. 1 he use of a philosophical language has another and obvious advantage. It renders intelligible in Pil countries, and at all times, the terms employed yy the pharmaceutist. “ Let the reader,” says Dr. aaris,* “ wade through the prescriptions of the i ider writers, and he may well fancy himself in the i ind of Shinar; whereas, by adopting the recog- iised language of science, whatever may be its nture revolutions, the articles of the Materia Iledica will be readily identified in every age and jountry.” It must be admitted, however, that great incon- tenience, not to say danger, attends the employ- • PharmaQologia, 9th ed. p. 102.