fsgl wrote on Tuesday, April 08, 2014:
I think it’s a case of faulty memory, on my part, because “n.p.o.”, which I wrote countless times as a pre-operative order, is “nil per os”.
Our professors in medical school had a more rigorous education in Latin than we, therefore it would be unlikely that they were grammatically incorrect.
David H. remembers his Latin better than myself. As he said, Latin sentences, including the first line of Caesar’s “Commentaries”, are tatooed to the conjunctivae of his eyelids. Will consult him about the matter and report back if there is a reply.