Selecta E Praescriptis

Author : Jonathan Pereira
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230120263
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Selecta È Praescriptis; Selections from Physician's Prescriptions ... to Which Is Added a Key; Containing the Prescriptions in an Unabbreviated Form written by Jonathan Pereira and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...addition of the down-stroke, which converts it into the letter p, that, were it not for its cloven foot, we might be led to question the faft of its superstitious origin."--Paris'sPharmacologia. (See Chap. I. p. 6.) 1Y. Minimum, the 60th part of a fluidrachm. Git. Gutt, e, drops. 9. Scrupulus vel Scrupulum. A scruple, equal to 20 grains troy. 5. Drachma, a drachm, equal to three scruples; or, in liquids, the 8th part of an ounce measure. 5. Uacia, an ounce troy; or, in liquids, the 16th part of a wine pint, or the 20th part of the imperial pint. ft. Libra, a pound weight. O. Octarius, a pint. fl. Fluid. Used as a prefix to certain measures "I wish some other character could be substituted either for the Ouxce or the Drachm; for the two characters being: so extremely alike, 1 am well persuaded many very bad mistakes occur: the Dbach M being-nearly a figure of three (3), requires nothing-but one small angle over it (7) to make it an ounce (J); thus the mistake is easily made, in the hurry of writing-, by the prescriber, or in the making-up by the compounder. So sensible of the possibility, or rather so well acquainted with the certainty, of fatal mistakes having happened from this similarity of figure in the marks of the drachm and the ounce, was that excellent and incorruptible patriot, Dr. Charles Lucas (of Dublin), that the very first Bill he brought into Parliament, after he had been returned a member for the city of Dublin, was a Bill to compel the physicians of Ireland to discontinue the using-of characters in their prescriptions, and to write the words at full length--Vncias ire, drachmas luast scrupulum unum cum semisse."--Chamberlain's Tyrocinium Medicum, 3d edit. 1819. Or. vi. Grana sex, six grains. Ghr. v, Grana...