PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION.

IN this Edition the Author has made various corrections and additions, which he hopes will add to the utility of the work, and be deemed improve

ments.

The most important addition is the Prosodiacal Vocabulary, exhibiting the quantities and the accents in the pronunciation of the names of drugs and chemicals employed in medicine.

October 1847.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.-GENERAL REMARKS ON PRESCRIP-

TIONS.

CHAP. I.-Definitions. Prescription, Formula,

Receipt, or Recipe.-Parts of prescriptions

CHAP. II.-Historical Notice. The Pentateuch.

Scribonius Largus....

CHAP. III.-Language used in Prescriptions. Cus-

toms of different countries. Reasons for pre-

ferring the Latin Language,

Lists of Terms, Phrases, &c. employed in pre-

scriptions:

SECT. 1.-Terms relating to General Blood-Letting.

Phlebotomy. Arteriotomy. Fainting. In-

struments used for blood-letting..

SECT. 2.-Terms relating to Local Blood-Letting.

Cupping, and apparatus for. Leeches, their

application.-Scarification..

SECT. 3.-Terms relating to the Extraction of

Teeth, &c. Toothache. Extraction of teeth.

Lancing the gums. Tooth instruments

SECT. 4.-Terms relating to Plasters, &c. Plasters,

malagmata, pastilli, cataplasms, epispastics,

blisters

SECT. 5.-Terms relating to Friction, &c. Friction,
inunction and dusting or besprinkling.

SECT. 6.-Terms relating to Shaving, &c. Hairs,

-shaving, a razor..

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SECT. 7.- Terms relating to Issues, Setons, Acu-

puncture, &c. Issues, mode of production.

Setons. Seton needle. Acupuncture

SECT. 8.-Terms relating to Electricity. Elec-

tricity, positive and negative.-Apparatus for

electrization,-different modes of electrifying.

Voltaic electricity. Electro-magnetism. Elec-

tro-puncture. Magnetism

SECT. 9.-Terms relating to Purging, &c. Stools

or Excrements,-purging,-constipation,-to

purge, to bind the bowels. Clysters. Sup-

positories

SECT. 10.-Terms relating to Vomiting, Sweating,

Sneezing, &c. Vomiting,-to promote it, to

suppress it; infusion of emetics into the veins.

-Sweating, to promote it, to suppress it.-

Sneezing, to excite it.-Diuresis, to promote it.

-Catheters, to draw off the urine.-Menses, to

promote them.-Intestinal worms (and other

entozoa), to expel them.......

SECT. 11.-Terms relating to Baths, Fomentations,

&c. Baths, different kinds of; ancient baths,

local baths. Affusion. Fomentation. Wash-

ing. Dry fumes. Aqueous vapours

SECT. 12.-Terms relating to Doses. Doses or por-

tions. Spoonfuls, cupfuls, glassfuls. Volume

of solid medicines. Different modes of ad-

ministering medicines

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SECT. 13.--Terms relating to time. Months, weeks,
days, hours.-Immediately, occasionally, &c. 6+

SECT. 14.-Terms relating to Parts of the Body.

Head, neck, body, chest, abdomen, extremi-

ties, &c..

SECT. 15.-Terms relating to the Symptoms of Dis-

eases. Cough, pain, watchfulness, tenesmus,

fever, spasm, hiccup, &c...

SECT. 16.-Terms relating to the Powers and Uses
of Remedies. To cure, to prevent relapses, to

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appease pain, to promote urine and the menses,

to correct acidity, to fumigate, to allay spasm,

to expel worms, to cauterize, &c.

SECT. 17.-Terms relating to Food, &c. Food or

aliment. Diet. Corn and its alimentary pre-

parations. Drinks: broth, milk, spirit, wines,

beer, aqueous drinks..

SECT. 18.-Terms relating to Instruments. Thermo-

meter, syringes, sponges, rods, camel's hair

pencils, funnels, bandages, splints, trusses,

boxes, gallipots, bottles, corks and bungs,

papers..

CHAP. IV.-Nomenclature employed in Prescrip-

tions. Scientific, Classical, and Barbarous

Names. Origin of the Nomenclature now used

in Natural History and Chemistry. Advantages

and Disadvantages of the modern pharmaceu-

tical nomenclature. Germs of a new nomen-

clature..

CHAP. V.-Abbreviations and Contractions used in

Prescriptions. Dangers arising from the use

of abbreviations. List of abbreviated names

which refer to two or more dissimilar sub-

stances. Directions for writing labels for

medicines. Table of abbreviations used in

prescriptions and pharmacy

CHAP. VI.-Symbols or Signs used in Prescriptions.

List of those in most frequent use. Mistakes

from the similarity between the symbol for an

ounce and that for a drachm...

CHAP. VII.-On the Grammatical Construction of

Prescriptions.

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1. Rules of Syntax. Concords; Government.... 126

2. Grammatical Explanation of Prescriptions.... 135

CHAP. VIII.- On the Pronunciation of Pharmaceu-

tical Terms

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1. Pronunciation of Letters. General rules: ex-

ceptions

2. Accent.

words; rules usually followed..

3. Length or Quantity of Syllables. English

scholars do not usually retain in all cases the

Greek and Latin quantities in pronouncing

Greek and Latin words. General rules com-

monly followed

English mode of accenting Latin

Prosodiacal Vocabulary..

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