Why doctors' prescriptions start with "Rx" ?

Question

I have seen that some of the medical practitioners, while writing prescriptions for medicines, begin with the letters "Rx". After this letter or symbol, the names of medicines prescribed appear. What is the reason behind this?

Answer 1

Rx=prescriptions

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The symbol "Rx" meaning "prescription" is a transliteration of a symbol resembling a capital R with a cross on the diagonal.

There are various theories about the origin of this symbol - some note its similarity to the Eye of Horus, others to the ancient symbol for Jupiter, both gods whose protection may have been sought in medical contexts. Alternatively, it may be intended as an abbreviation of the Latin "recipe", the imperative form of "recipere", "to take", and it is quite possible that more than one of these factors influenced its form. Literally, "Recipe" means simply "Take...." and when a doctor writes a prescription beginning with "Rx", he or she is completing the command. This was probably originally directed at the pharmacist who needed to take a certain amount of each ingredient to compound the medicine, rather than at the patient who must "take" the medicine, in the sense of consuming it.

The word "prescription" can be decomposed into "pre" and "script" and literally means, "to write before" a drug can be prepared. Those within the industry will often call prescriptions simply "scripts".-

Answer 4

Rx isn't just a normal R and x. It's a symbol (not available in the ASCII list) of an italic R with a leg that hangs down below the line with an X line through it. This brings me to theory number two, from the book Devils, Drugs, and Doctors, written in 1931: "Rx is not, as is frequently supposed, an abbreviation of a Latin word meaning recipe or compound, but is an invocation to Jupiter, a prayer for his aid to make the treatment effective...sometimes in old medical manuscripts all the R's occurring in the text were crossed."

Answer 5

Rx stands for:

drug
medication
pharmacy
prescribe
prescription
prescription drug
take [L. recipe]
therapy
treatment

The medical prescription. symbol usually "Rx" is said to stand for the Latin "recipe" "to word meaning take." that is doctor's recipe.

Another explanation the for origin of Rx is that it was derived the for from astrological sign which Jupiter was once on prescriptions placed to that invoke god's blessing on the drug to help the recover. patient

Rx is Latin -- commonly known as prescription.

Dx is also Latin -- means diagnosis

Other Answers:
Rx=Treatment
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it is latin for "you make"
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Prescription: A physician's order for the preparation and administration of a drug or device for a patient. A prescription has several parts. They include the superscription or heading with the symbol "R" or "Rx", which stands for the word recipe (meaning, in Latin, to take); the inscription, which contains the names and quantities of the ingredients; the subscription or directions for compounding the drug; and the signature which is often preceded by the sign "s" standing for signa (Latin for mark), giving the directions to be marked on the container.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Rx is the medical abbreviation for prescription or script.

Answer 8

Rx means u will take the medicine with recognized by a doctor. it is approved by a doctor there is no side effects in it.

Answer 9

Rx in latin = take thou in the name of god.

the doctors gv the prescription with all the good intention to cure the patient and tht is given and adviced to be taken in the name of god. hence the prescriptions start with Rx.

Answer 10

All the Doctors writes 'Rx" before giving any prescription,because 'Rx" means You should take this medicines.