Selecta è præscriptis = selections from physicians' prescriptions : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes ... and a series of abbreviated prescriptions illustrating the use of the preceding terms to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form, with a literal translation, for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / by Jonathan Pereira.

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Selecta è præscriptis = selections from physicians' prescriptions : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes ... and a series of abbreviated prescriptions illustrating the use of the preceding terms to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form, with a literal translation, for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / by Jonathan Pereira. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    full specific characters, intended the latter should serve as names, and therefore called them nomina specifica. When he, jnost fortunately for the science and for the popularity of his whole System of Nature, invented the present simple specific names, he called them nomina trivialia,—trivial, or for common use; but that term is now super- fiuous.”* The nomenclature employed in Chemistry was introduced by the Prench chemists,+ Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and Fourcroy; but modified so as to suit the present state of science. When the philosophical world had adopted the reformed chemical nomenclature, the medical colleges sub- stituted, for the ancient names of medicines, scien- tific ones, expressive of the supposed nature or composition of these substances. From this pro- ceeding both advantages and disadvantages have ‘ resulted to Pharmacy, though on the whole the ; former preponderate over the latter. Uniformity 4 of nomenclature could be obtained in no other * Sir James Edward Smith’s Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany, 4th ed. p. 288. 1819. t Mithodc de Nomenclature Chimique. Paris, 1787.