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

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    ii'Ord from the Greek and Xjatin, that has g in it, re ere so pronounced ? ” Kule 2. Qn.—Ch is usually pronounced hard, kke X—a practice which is consonant, probably, rith that of the Eonians; as in Chenopodiiim ksen), Chelidonium (kel), Mastiche (mastike), Khela (kela), Chimaphila (ki), Chmd/>'us (ko), 'dioschus (moskus), &c. Ohserv. a. This rule is very frequently violated ivy pharmaceutists. Thus Chia (e. g. Terebiu- inina Ghia) is often erroneously pronounced as if rrritten tshia, whereas it should be sounded as 1 ia. Catechu* is often erroneously sounded as if rr'ritten katetshoo, whereas the true pronunciation s 5 that of kateku or katequ; the chu being pro- nounced as ku or qu. Ohserv. jS. Colckicum, following the same rule, should be pronounced kolkekum; but it is more r requently sounded koltshecum. The former pro- r. unciation (kolkekum) is supported not only by ii nalogy and the pronunciation of the Greek primi- « The word Catechu is said to be derived from Cate, the I ame of a tree, and Chu, juices (B. J. Murray, App. Medicam. ol. ii.). With the aid of Professor H. H. Wilson, I have Ji ndeavoured, but in vam, to verify this etymology. Pro- e-essor Wilson suggests that the word is derived from two ^Idalay words, Gateh and Kuah ; the former signifying juice tiibtained by boiling—the latter, juice by exudation. The :».wo words put together would make something like our ► vord Catechu, Gateh-Kuah.