Medical and pharmaceutical Latin : for students of pharmacy and medicine / by Reginald R. Bennett ; with an introduction by Henry G. Greenish.

Date:
1906
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Credit: Medical and pharmaceutical Latin : for students of pharmacy and medicine / by Reginald R. Bennett ; with an introduction by Henry G. Greenish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    medicine. Commencing with a series of exercises in Latin grammar which will be of service to those (and I fear they form the majority) who, since passing their entrance exa- minations, have forgotten much of their school work, he passes to the reading and writing of Latin prescriptions. This section includes numerous typical prescriptions in con- tracted Latin, uncontracted Latin, and English, which serve as exercises and examples; here, as is necessary, such modern forms of medication as tablets, insufflations, pastes, etc., receive due attention. The translations that follow from the London Pharmacopoeia show how readily inteUi- gible Latin formulae become to a student who has been pro- perly trained. Most necessary and most useful to students are the Latin-English and English-Latin vocabularies that follow ; these are so copious as to render the additional employment of a dictionary practically unnecessary. The final section on foreign prescriptions, with their translations into English, is likely to be extremely useful. As Demonstrator in Pharmacy in the School of Phar- macy of the Pharmaceutical Society, and subsequently as Teacher of Pharmacy in University College Hospital, London, Mr. Bennett has had ample opportunity of becoming ac- quainted with the requirements of students of pharmacy and medicine, with the difficulties they encounter, and with the help that they require. These demands Mr. Bennett has met. He has supplied a work that will enable the student to revise rapidly a fading knowledge of Latin grammar, that will familiarise him with the correct reading and writing of prescriptions, and that will, with its copious vocabularies, suffice for all his pharmaceutical requirements. These ad- vantages students, pharmacists, and physicians will alike heartily welcome. HENRY Ct. greenish. Ju7ie 1906.