Funny Picture - Video Thread III

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[Texasgordo]

 

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[TX OMFS]

Not really comical but something amusing from my doc who has a mini museum in his office, a collector of all things medical going way back. You should see the old stuff doctors used. Anyway, during Prohibition you could get booze if your doctor wrote you an RX. My doc found this somewhere and has it on his wall. Can't much read the chicken scratch but the patient evidently got the booze on August 6, 1926. I guess it wasn't anything we drink....

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Very cool. The doc used latin abbreviations which are still common. TID means 3 Tim's per day. I cannot make out the rest.

Kinda looks like one thing may say gts. Gtts is an abbreviation for guttae and means drops. Maybe that's what was written?

 

[DubiousDan]

Very cool. The doc used latin abbreviations which are still common. TID means 3 Tim's per day. I cannot make out the rest.

Kinda looks like one thing may say gts. Gtts is an abbreviation for guttae and means drops. Maybe that's what was written?

I think it's the apothecary symbol for ounce or drams so it would be one ounce three times a day. Above it may be the amount to be dispensed (o i - one pint).

When I first started working some docs still ordered morphine, aspirin and phenobarbital in grains.

 

[Hoji]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[DubiousDan]

I think it's the apothecary symbol for ounce or drams so it would be one ounce three times a day. Above it may be the amount to be dispensed (o i - one pint).

When I first started working some docs still ordered morphine, aspirin and phenobarbital in grains.

I just recalled an older doc I worked with around 1990 who would order nitroglycerine ointment in grains (was supposed to be in inches) so we'd have to convert grains to milligrams to inches. Some of the old abbreviations were fun but caused confusion and many are no longer allowed. That and computers have really cut down on medication errors.

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

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along with the $10.

 

[TheDan]

 

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