1 k. , recommended for trial; not tested.
2 2 ., syphilis; i.e venereal disease.
3 'it., tincture, essence.
4 Tom ., Tohfet; i.e. a Mtthomedan Materia Medica.
5 v , vide; i. seo ; look at the thing to which the sign refers.
6 f., a millionth port of i! grain, in accordance with Hahnemann's
7 system.
8 l. sol., solution of the millionth.
9 X., a dccillionth pan.
10 X°°°, three small globules of the ilecilliontli part.
11 . abbreviation, when behind part of a Latin, or Oriental word: as,
12 Au,ic., meaning Anactirdmn —unless at the end of a period.
13 ■I rimes, four times a-day: i. e. four doses are to be taken between rising
14 and going to bed.
15 •I Urns 19; i. e. four doses a-day, to be taken for three consecutive days.
16 1-2 tvr 5 , twelve times a-day ; i. e. a dose to bo taken every hour, during
17 the waking hours.
18 N.B. Spaced words (words which have a marked space between tie-
19 letters, as the word sc lay it) tiro Eastern terms.
20 Tbo Key for the abbreviations used in the Latin of the Medical part,
21 nmy be seen in the Materia MedUw of this volume, whore tho word is
22 inserted in full. The quantity of the medicines to bo taken at once, nmy
23 therein bo found under each tested article, and classed (1.) (II.) fill t
24 according to their rank. See Yoi. 11. Introduction, page iii. & iv.
25 Example— VaniU. arm. %, (I.) dysentery. 12 times .10.
26 (4 times 28. N.) Costiveness. G. N.
27 i.e. Tincture (essence) of Vanilla is a medicine of the first class,
28 and in a case of dysentery, hourly doses, 12 times a day, in 3 days
29 proved beneficial. (One dose taken o\ery 3 bouts, l times a day,
30 during 7 consecutive days, 28 doses, did not prove beneficial.) In
31 cases of Costiveness it sometimes proved beneficial, sometimes not.