The medical students [sic] practical and theoretical guide, to the translation and composition of Latin prescriptions |
Common terms and phrases
Ablative Active æger Alcohol Ammonia Applica Apply Aqua Aquæ blood body bolus Case changing cochleare compounds Conjugation crystallus cure cured dimidius Divide dose dosis drachma duo drachmas duas draught drink emplastrum ĕris febris formed four frictio FUTURE given grana granum hæc haustus hear heard Hippocrates hora hour Hydrargyrum Indicative Infinitive Mood Inflammatio irreg Let the patient liquor Macera Magnesia massa may be made medicamentum medicus Misce mixed mixture morbus Mucilago Myrrha Nominative NOTE Nouns octarios octo onis oris ounces PARTICIPLES pathologia patient take PERFECT person physician pills pilula plur PLURAL potash Potassa powder prep PRETERPERFECT PRETERPLUPERFECT pulvis quæ quatuor Recipe Recipio Respiratio RULE Saccharum sanguis sine SINGULAR Substantive Sulphate sumatur sumendus sumo supine Syrupi take two taken thing third thou mayst thou mightst Tincture uncia unguentum Verb Verbs vomiting ye may
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Page 22 - I had been. Fueras, thou hadst been. Fuerat, he had been. Fueramus, we had been. Fueratis, ye had been. Fuerant, they had been. FUTURE
Page 16 - Bonus, good melior, better. optimus, best. Malus, bad. pejor, worse. pessimus, worst. Magnus, great, major, greater. maximus, greatest. Parvus, little. minor, less. minimus, least. Multus, much. plus, more. plurimus, most. Dives, rich. ditior,
Page 24 - Fuisse, to have been. FUTURE. Fore or Futurum esse, to be about to be. PARTICIPLE FUTURE. Futurus, a, um, about to be. The
Page ii - the acquisition of them, prudently conducted, becomes to young persons one of the best instruments of intellectual proficiency, which, in the present state of human society, it is possible to imagine.
Page 36 - the Verb, the Relative shall be of that Case, which the Verb or Noun following, or the Preposition
Page 37 - The Present is formed from the Present Indicative by changing o, in the first Conjugation into em,
Page 38 - into di, do and dum. The Participle Present is formed from the Present Indicative by changing o, in the
Page 22 - Eram, I was. Eras, thou wast. Erat, he was. Eramus, we were. Eratis, ye were. Erant, they were.
Page viii - There are two Numbers; the Singular and the Plural. The Singular speaks but of one;
Page 23 - Fuerim, I may have been. Fueris, thou mayst have been. Fuerit, he may have been.