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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    neum, '‘Sericuni; taffeta. cloth ; woollen cloth. “Silk; taf- feta (a fine smooth, glossy, silky tissue). Emplastrum illinere. To spread a plaster. In alutam extendendum, in- To be spread upon ducendum. leather. Emplastrum in linteolo super-A plaster {spread'] imponendum, Cels. on a small piece of linen is to be put over {it]. 'Emplastrum ad exemplar 'A plaster to pattern; {vel ad normam^); %ujus *of this size, magnitudinis. 'Magnitude hujus chart*; ' The size of this ^semi-coronae nummi. paper; *of a half- crown piece. Pollex latus; pollicaris lati- A thumb’s breadth, tudo. Renovare emplastrum. To renew the plaster. Emplastra ad extrahendum, Plasters for drawing; Cels. ; epispastica ( firi- epispastics. 0-7TO(TTt(f<£f). * Ad normam, according to law, custom, or pattern, t “ What the ancients called epispastica were such ex- tenial applications as only reddened the skin, and, according to the different degree of effect, received different names; the slightest were called pheenigmoi, the next sinapismi, the more active vesicaiorii, and the strongest caustici.” Parr, Med. Did.