written instructions from a physician to a pharmacy for the preparation and issuance of a medicine and also containing directions on how to administer the medicine. Prescriptions are written according to definite forms and rules. A simple prescription is written for a single medicinal substance, and a compound prescription is written for a medicine that consists of two or more ingredients. A prescription is a legal document, since it makes it possible to verify whether a medicine has been prepared correctly.
After imbibing large doses of official prescriptions from Farmer and Taylor, the reader is relieved to learn from Woodside that the educated elite of the middle Ch'ing period paid less attention to the "orthodoxy of social and ritual 'oughtness'" than one might expect.
Supply stubs official prescriptions of the Community of Madrid.