1 EXPLANATION
2 OF THE
3 ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS
4 USED IN THE FOLLOWING MEDICAL PART.
5 a., alternately ; i. e. the two specified remedies to be taken alternately.
6 e., evening; i. e. to take a dose at bed-time.
7 g., good. Wherever this mark occurs, the remedy has twice (at least)
8 proved beneficial. Where no letter stands behind the disease or
9 symptom, there it has but once been proved available.
10 $ mercury ; or, mercurial complaint.
11 m., morning ; i. e. a dose to be taken on an empty stomach.
12 m. 7., every morning; i. e. a dose to be taken every morning, for seven
13 consecutive days.
14 m. and e. Example — m. and e. 60, i. e. two doses a-day, for thirty days,
15 to be taken morning and evening.
16 n. , not; i.e. the medicine not given as an approved medicine — it has
17 failed ; yet, having failed but once, it is recommended for further
18 trial. Such medicines as have failed tivice or thrice , are not inserted
19 in this work.
20 r., producing; i. e. the medicine produced the symptom or disease.
21 When p. stands alone, it signifies, that notwithstanding its having
22 produced an effect, it was not further tested whether it might be
23 beneficial in similar cases. Where p. and g. are found together,
24 the medicine has produced, as well as ameliorated or cured the
25 malady. Such were the remedies on which I most confidently
26 relied ( similia similibus curantur ) nevertheless, they occasionally
27 failed, which has induced me to mark them p. g. n. [i. e. producing,
28 good, not) for further trial.