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QUID PRO QUO

Volume 17 · 98 words · 1815 Edition

in Law, q. d. "what for what," denotes the giving one thing of value for another: or the mutual consideration and performance of both parties to a contract.

or **QUI PRO QUO**, is also used in physic to express a mistake in the physician's bill, where *quid* is wrote for *quo*, i.e. one thing for another; or of the apothecary in reading *quid* for *quo*, and giving the patient the wrong medicine. Hence the term is in the general extended to all blunders or mistakes committed in medicine, either in the prescription, the preparation, or application of remedies.