The physician's prescription book : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : the grammatical construction of prescriptions ... 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:
1865
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Credit: The physician's prescription book : containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : the grammatical construction of prescriptions ... 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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    exercise, &c, as well as medicines; but he uses formula' for the preparation of medicines only. Formulae are of two kinds,—extemporaneous or magistral, and officinal. Extemporaneous formula' [formula; magistrates) are so called because they are constructed by the practitioner on the instant, ex tempore. Officinal formulae [formula < nales) are those published in pharmacopoeias, or by some other authority.* Officinal preparations arc presumed to be kept ready for use. Formulae are either simple or compound. A simple formula [formula simplex) consists of only one officinal (either simple or compound) prepara- tion. A compound formula [formula composita) consists of two or more officinal preparations. The principal medicine in a formula is called the (1) basis; that which promotes or assists the action of the basis is termed the (2) auxiliary (adjuvans); that which corrects some objectionable quality of the other ingredients is named the (3) corrt (corrigens); and lastly, that which gives a proper form to the whole is denominated the (4) / [constituent, excipiens, vol vehicula). These four parts of a formula are intended to accomplish the object of Asclepiades— curare cilo,tuto etjucunde; * In Fiance, the term ordonnance is applied to a magistral formula, and the term formule to an officinal one.