[PW] Re: "x" in Rx (prescription)

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/2006 11:04:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jeanne.schramm at gmail.com writes:

> 
>     The patron here is my mother.  She is wondering what the "x" in "Rx"
> stands for. She asked her pharmacist and he has no idea.  

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 I think it's fairly accepted that the "X" is only a later rendering of the 
abbreviated tail of the R.  Maybe the OED has a first use...

Allen