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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    PREFACE TO THE SEVENTEENTH EDITION. In* the preparation of the edition of this work which is now presented to the public, the matter has been carefully revised, and such alterations and additions made as were found to be required for the continued fulfilment of its original objects. The last publication of the British Pharmacopoeia rendered some changes necessary, especially in the names of medicines, and further changes have now been made in the same direction, and for the purpose of in- troducing some new forms of medicine. The object, however, of this little work is not merely to represent the prevailing mode of prescribing medicines according to the instruc-