The Latin grammar of pharmacy for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students, including the reading of Latin prescriptions, Latin-English and English-Latin reference vocabularies and prosody

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MEDICAL DIRECTIONS. PAGE

ABBREVIATIONS. 2

REFERENCE VOCABULARIES.

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THE LATIN GRAMMAROE PHARMACV.

ut There is no arti te in the Latin language. In the ordinary Englisti method os pronunciation, c and gare made hard besore a, o, and u; and Sost be re e, i, and F. Os late it has been proposed to revive as nearly as possible theancient pronunciation, and to adopt with some variations the continental method. In this system c becomes k and has ahard found ; the vowels lose their Englisti value, and are readlong or stiori according to their quantity; I besore a vo Nelis never pronouia Ced as sh ; and other Changes are included. Syllabies whicli are long have the marii ' placed over theirvowel; shori Syllabies have the marti Doubisul syllabies whicli are occasionalty long or ShOrt, a re marhed rae. By quantity is meant the shori or long pronunciation givento a vo vel . This is determined by observing the quantity oi

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There are tKo numbers, Singular and Ρlural: the first denotesone objeci; the SecOnd, more than one. There are threegenders, Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. When eithermasculine or seminine, the gender is called Common

NOUNS OR SUBSTANTI VES.

3. ACcusative. The objeci.

The endings of the disserent cases are added to what iqcalled the stem, or the part of the word Whicli remains un-changed. The Changes whicli a Stem-Word under goes are called FlexionS. The sive deciensions are linoNn by the Character, that is the last letter of the stem, Whicli stan is besore rum or se in ille genitive Case Plurat.

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CHARACTER.

Larum. II. Orum. III. um, Ium. IV. tium. V. erum.

Includes norins ending in E in the nominative Case Singular, and whicli form the genitive plural in arum. Nouns of this deciension are seminine, unieSS the meaning shoWs them to bemasculine. Thus, agricola, a sarmer, iS masculine. Nouns of the first deciension are declined in the following

Observe these different endings, or sextons, of the Same Stem-Word Ros. These endings are Called the Cases; and these cases give the mean ings. Ille endings os the nominative and vocative Singular are

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both in a shori. The ablative singular eiads in a long. The genitive singular, nominative and vocative plurat, en d in re long. The genitive plural en is in diu , and is the distinctive sigii os this sirst decienslon. The ending is of the dative and ablative plurat is long. Necata thus sorio a table of these endings :Deciension l.

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Includes Nouias ending in us, er, and is, masculine, exceptnames os trees in us, whicli are seminine; and um, neuter. The genitive plural ends in orum.

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Decline in the fame manner the masculine notans: Capillus, a rictis. Congius, a gallou. Culmus, a Sol . Cyathus, a cus. Digitus, a fueri Gallus, a coch. Octaritas, a pius. Scrupulus, a Scruste. Succus, juice. SyrupuS, Is p. and

Nouns os the second deciension ending in ex and is are thus declined:

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Pue ORUM,

mari.

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Neuter nouns ending in um. The nominative, Vocative, and accusative singular end in um. The nominative, vocative, and accusative plural end in a. Singulari urat.