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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    is or as (ite or ate in English;) as—cnrbo'nis, phos'phas, ni'tras, sul'ph s, ars&n'l is, iu'das, and ar'.itu/n. Both dissyllables and trisyllables lengthen the incre- ment, and the accent then falls on the penultimate; as —su'.'pkas, sul'pha'tis; ni'tras, nilra'tis; orstn'ias, arsS- fASi'tis; to'diis, ibda'tis: and ar'stnis, arsEni'tis. Observ. The word acetas is sometimes pronounced with the penultimate short, and consequently with the accent on the antepenultimate; as—ac'Etas. But as the penultimate in the primitive ('tectum) is long, the penultimate of the derivative (acetas) should be long also (act'tas.) Rule 20. Compound words have the same quantity as the simple words of which they are compounded; asperox'ydum, bichlor'idum, binio'dldum, ferrocy in'ldum, scsquicar'bonas, and bisui'phas. and orientspotassicus. In the Edinburgh and Dublin Pharma- copoeias they are made neuter: as in the phrases carbonas soda txsiccatum anAferri sulphas exsiccatum. Jn the London Phar- macopoeia, on the contrary, they are made feminine: as in the term sodce carbonas exsiccata. If it be admitted that these words lengthen the increment, they then come under Lilly's second special rule,—that nouns increasing long in the genitive are fe- minine. -'If we are to be guided by the standard of classical authority, thi London College is certainly correct.—Bostock's Remarks on the Nomenclature of the New London Pharmacopoeia. 18