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By RYAN HUME
℞
[ɑr•ɛks]
noun
1. a ligature and symbol
used to abbreviate the
term, “prescription.” ℞ is also
written out as the subscript,
R x , or more commonly as
the double glyph, Rx
Origin:
Ligatures — a type of
shorthand that blends
two separate letters into a
symbol, like the ampersand
for example — arose before
the introduction of the
printing press around 1440
as a way for scribes, who
handwrote manuscripts,
to produce work or copies
faster.
℞ is fi rst noticed in
medieval manuscripts as
an abbreviation for the
imperative Latin, recipe!,
meaning “take!,” which is
the command form of the
verb, recipere, “to take” or
“to receive.”
Travelling through Mid-
dle French as récipé, around
the 1580s, with the same
direct connotation, it origi-
nally retained its verb status
when it entered the English
language and medical jar-
gon later. Legend has it that
even the fi rst doctor to use
the ℞ symbol used it as a
verb, as in the hypothetical,
“℞ two and call me in the
morning.”
Both the word recipe and
the abbreviation ℞ were
originally synonymous
with both the defi nitions of
“medical prescription” and
“to prepare food.”
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‘Veggie Rx’ program writes prescription for
free food,” OregonLive, oregonlive.com, June
11, 2015
“The Columbia Gorge Region is
a winner of the 2016 Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Culture of
Health Prize. One of the commu-
nity’s successful initiatives is a
“Veggie Rx” program. Veggie Rx is
administered by OCFSN Member
organization Gorge Grown Food
Network and was developed in
partnership with Lauren Kraemer of
Oregon State University Extension’s
Family & Community Health (FCH)
program. The Veggie Rx program
“prioritizes food not just theoreti-
cally or through nutritional advice,
but on the ground by screening
patients for their food needs,” says
Sarah Sullivan, executive director of
Gorge Grown.”
— Tori Wilder, “2016 Culture of Health
Prize Winner: Columbia Gorge Region Veggie
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Systems Network, Sept. 28, 2016
“Forty organizations, including
Oregon State University and the
Oregon Food Bank, have teamed up
to strengthen local food systems and
connect growers who struggle to fi nd
markets with buyers who struggle to
obtain healthful food … (The organi-
zation) is called the Oregon Commu-
nity Food Systems … Jump-started
with funding from the Meyer Memo-
rial Trust, network members settled
on four primary initiatives (including
the establishment of) a “Veggie Rx”
program, in which doctors could write
a prescription for healthful food as
they would for medicine. A program
in Hood River initiated by Gorge
Grown allows doctors to give patients
$30 vouchers that can only be used to
buy fresh fruit and vegetables. In the
past year, the program helped 6,500
people buy food.”
— Eric Mortenson, “Network will help
Oregon growers, buyers connect,” The Daily
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