The physician's prescription book : containing lists of terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : also the grammatical construction of prescriptions, etc., etc. : to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form with a literal translation : intended for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / by Jonathan Pereira.

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The physician's prescription book : containing lists of terms, phrases, contractions and abbreviations, used in prescriptions, with explanatory notes : also the grammatical construction of prescriptions, etc., etc. : to which is added a key, containing the prescriptions in an unabbreviated form with a literal translation : intended for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / by Jonathan Pereira. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CONTEXTS. Til PAGE SECT. 13.—T to Food, <f-c. Food or aliment. Diet. Corn and its alimentary preparations. Drinks: broth, milk, spirit, wines, beer, aqueous drinks 87 Sect. 20.— Terms relating to Pharmaceutical Instruments. Thermometer, syringes, sponges, rods, camel's-hair pen- cils, runnels, bandages, splints, trusses, boxes, gallipots, bottles, corks and bungs, papers 93 Sect. 21.—Terms relating to Surgical Instruments 97 Sect. 22,— T uiical Operations 97 CHAP. YT.—Nomenclature employed in Prescript ions. Scien- tific, classical, and barbarous names. Origin of the no- menclature now used in natural history and chemistry. Advantages and disadvantages of the modem pharma- ceutical nomenclature. Germs of a new nomenclature. 99 CHAP. VII.—Abbreviations and Contractions used in Pre- rs arising from the use of abbrevia- tions. List of abbreviated names which refer to two or more dissimilar substances. Directions for writing la- bels for medicines. Table of abbreviations used in pre- scriptions and pharmacy lr'l CHAP. VIII.—Symbols or Si* ■ List, of the;- in most frequent use. Mistakes from the simi- larity symbol lor an ounce and that for a drachm HA CHAP. IX.—On Vie Grammatical Construction of Prescrip- 1. Rules of Syntax. Concords 324 •• Government 126 2. Grammatical Explanation ofPrescriptions 130 CHAP. X.— On the Pronunciation of Pliarmaceutical linns... 105 Sect. 1.—Pronunciation of Letters. General rules. Excep- tions 13G Sect. 2.—Pronunciation of Syllables: Accent. English mode ■ : 'Oids. Kules usually followed. 1-10 Sect. 3.—Length or Quantity of Syllables or Vowels. En- glish scholars do not usually retain in all cases the Greek and Latin quantities in pronouncing Greek and Latin words. General rules commouly followed 142 Prosodiacal Vocabulary HQ