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"": "1. What does the Rx on doctor's prescriptions mean?
Two things about prescriptions(處方) haven't changed since your great-grandparent's day: the handwriting is almost impossible to read and there's always that mysterious \"Rx\" at the top. We don't know why doctors are unable to master penmanship (書法)after all those years of education. But we do know something about that cryptic( 神秘的)Rx. There are two schools of thought. One has it that Rx is short for the Latin word for recipe, since druggists used to make medicines from raw ingredients(成分). The other answer is that Rx was a corruption(訛誤) either of the astrological( 占星的)sign for Jupiter of the sign for the ancient Egyptian god Horus, calling on those gods for healing. Now if there was only an ancient god for penmanship.
2. Why is the abbreviation for pound \"lb.?\"
讓您第一時間享受最新章節，請訪問𝗼𝗼𝗽.𝘁𝘄
If everything in the world were logical, this abbreviation would probably be \"po.\" or \"pd.\"But then \"post office\" and \"paid\" would have to find new abbreviations. Actually, the abbreviation \"lb.\" for pound isn't illogical, it just isn't English. In ancient Rome, things were measured or weighed against standardized units. To weigh something, you put it in a pan on a balancing scale(天平) and placed objects called \"pondos\" (from which we get the word \"pounds\") in the other pan until everything balanced.The abbreviation \"lb.\" comes not from the pondos used to calculate the weight, but from the scale itself. The scale's Latin name is \"libra\", easily abbreviated \"lb\".
3. Why is kidding someone \"pulling their leg?\"
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