Heymatt:
Why does Rx mean prescription?
-- Wendy, San Diego
Rx is shorthand for recipe, the Latin imperative meaning, "Take it!" What passed for doctors in medieval times wrote Recipe at the top of a page of instructions for patients. Eventually that was shortened to an R with a bar through it, maybe like a quickly written R and e.
Heymatt:
Why does Rx mean prescription?
-- Wendy, San Diego
Rx is shorthand for recipe, the Latin imperative meaning, "Take it!" What passed for doctors in medieval times wrote Recipe at the top of a page of instructions for patients. Eventually that was shortened to an R with a bar through it, maybe like a quickly written R and e.
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