When he used mercurial "swabbing" he employed from one to four drachms of unguent, hydrargyri to the ounce of lard.
Half a drachm or more of table-salt and a few drachms of sugar ought to be added to the daily mess.
These were given in doses of from four drachms to an ounce daily.
Its quantity varies from one or two drachms to an ounce or more.
Then from one to one and a half drachms of ipecacuanha are administered in powder.
This may be accomplished by combining liquor ferri perchloridi drachm j, liquor ammonii acetatis drachms iv, acidum aceticum (glacial) drachms iv, and water enough to make ounces iiss.
Good recommends four grains of Plummer's pill every night, and the bowels kept open by two drachms of sublimed sulphur daily.
He recommends for extreme distension of the colon in an adult the introduction, by means of a tube passed up the rectum, of a solution of about 5 drachms of sodii bicarb.
On the fourth day 3-1/3 drachms of the solution, and opium as follows: at 4 P.
Take four grains of Acetate of Morphia, two fluid drachms of Tincture of Bloodroot, three fluid drachms each of Antimonial Wine and Wine of Ipecacuanha, and three fluid ounces Syrup of Wild Cherry.
Mix, and give at night in cut feed for several weeks; give at the same time every morning and noon three drachms powdered Gentian, two drachms powdered Blue Vitriol, give the medicines for a long time; feed well.
Half ounce Tincture of Elder Blossoms, half ounce Beef Marrow, half pint Orange Flower Water, one Cassia Buds, two ounces Bitter Almonds, four drachms Spirits Oriental Roses.
One pound Olive Oil, one drachm Oil of Origanum, one and one-half drachms Oil of Rosemary.
Tincture of Rhubarb, and twodrachms of Epsom Salts in a tumbler of hot water--will speedily restore its wonted energy.
Take a quarter of an ounce of China turmeric, the third of an ounce of cassia, threedrachms of black pepper, two drachms of cayenne pepper, and an ounce of coriander seeds.
With two drachms of the best canister gunpowder, the piston was propelled nineteen inches along the tube; breaking eight pins.
The ultimate range of such a musket with three drachms of gunpowder, would be equal to the range of the Enfield; but, of course, without one-tenth its accuracy.
With a charge of twelve drachms of Curtis and Harvey's diamond grain powder, the ball went through the half-inch plate, but went only a few yards further; denoting that the effort necessary had nearly exhausted its velocity and momentum.
Two drachms and a half were found equal to a range of fourteen hundred yards, whilst four drachms and a half on the old system would rarely reach half that distance.
Attar of rose, twelve drops; rub it up with half an ounce of white sugar and two drachms carbonate magnesia; then add gradually one quart of water and two ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper.
Solution is readily effected and when it is completed add two and one-half drachms of mastic.
For an adult four drachms of the former and eight of the latter may be used.
Taylor quotes an instance of a lady, a week after delivery, being directed by her medical attendant to take ten drachms of this salt, in divided doses as a laxative.
Two drachms is the smallest quantity which has destroyed life; but less than this would probably prove fatal, if it produced much corrosion about the wind-pipe.
Taylor relates the case of a woman, aged twenty-eight, who was found dead one hour after swallowing three drachms of the crystallized acid.
Two fluid drachms of the poison (more than enough to produce death) were accidentally taken in my experience.
In silence, she took the glass; in silence, she measured out the fatal two drachms of the poison, and showed it to him.
Three drachms of recent pus, derived from the same patient as in the last experiments, were injected into the jugular vein of a small emaciated unhealthy dog.
Three drachms of pus were collected from an issue in the chest of a horse, which laboured under inflammation of the lungs.
Two drachms of pus, somewhat fetid, derived from a large common ulcer, and diluted with a little water, were injected into the jugular vein of a middling-sized dog.
Two ounces and sixdrachms of blood were taken from a healthy horse, and two drachms of pus were mixed with it.
Three drachmsof olive oil were thrown into the crural artery of a large dog.
Rinse the silver bottle with three drachms of water and add it to the emulsion.
This draught may be administered once and sometimes twice a day, the croton oil being omitted after the first dose; after the first day, 2 drachms of powdered gentian may be added.
Scrape into an earthen vessel one ounce and a half of spermaceti and half an ounce of white wax; add six drachms of pounded camphor, and four tablespoonsful of the best olive oil.
Treatment--If the horse be full and well fed, take 3 or 4 quarts of blood at once; cease using him for a time, and give him an occasional physic ball or powdered aloes 6 drachms and a little in honey.
Reilly of Oxford Street; they weighed fifteen pounds, and carried seven drachms of powder without a disagreeable recoil.
The tremendous flash and smoke of ten drachms of powder completely blinded me, and the sudden reaction of darkness increased the obscurity.
The rifle was loaded for elephants, with seven drachms of powder.
Add six drachms of pulverized alum, stir with a brush to quicken the solution of the salt, and let the whole rest 20 minutes.
Dissolve in it, by small portions at a time, 2 drachms of grain tin, in a large bottle of white glass, shutting it after putting in the tin.
Take 1 pound of cochineal in powder; 3 drachmsand a half of carbonate of potash; 8 drachms of alum in powder; 3 drachms and a half of fish-glue.
Macerate these substances during eight days, then distil by a gentle fire; draw off two gallons of spirits, and add to it 2 drachms of essential oil of anise-seed.
To the third frit, ground to powder, 5 drachms of nitre are to be added; and the mixture being melted for the last time, a mass of crystal will be found in the crucible, of a beautiful lustre.
The grinding of two drachms of enamel pigment into an impalpable powder, will occupy a labourer a whole day.
On cutting into it the contents are found to be of a whitish colour, and of the consistence of milk, cream, or whey; the quantity ranging from a few drachms to several ounces.
Much may be accomplished in chronic cases by means of astringent injections, of which the best perhaps is a solution of alum in a decoction of oak-bark, in the proportion of two drachms of the one to a pint of the other.
Great relief and benefit seem to have accrued from the frequently repeated use of a warm bath, with some drachms of the tart.
It should be administered, as was first suggested by Mr. Ireland, an English surgeon, in doses of two drachms every thirty minutes until an ounce or upwards is taken, or until free vomiting and purging ensue.
The formula is as follows, for which the world is indebted to Canon Beechy: In 8 ounces of absolute alcohol dissolve 5 drachms of anhydrous bromide of cadmium.
This will throw a conical projectile of three ounces, with seven drachms of powder.
The conical bullet of quicksilver and lead, propelled by seven drachms of powder, had entered the exact centre of the forehead of the elephant No.
To fifty pounds of water add ten ounces of muriate of soda, ten drachms of muriate of magnesia, two ounces of muriate of lime, six drachms of sulphate of soda, and the same quantity of sulphate of magnesia.
Two drachms chloride of lime, two drachmsacetic acid, one and a half ounce water.
Melt in water-bath, and stir with it, while cooling, two drachms glycerine.
I added to the bottle a few drachms of water, two drachms of spirits of wine, thirty drops of hydrochloric acid, and two grains of dried powder.
I took about two drachmsfrom one of these bottles (No.
Two drachms of the oil has killed a man in seventeen minutes (Lancet, 1868, p.
When about two drachms of clear liquid had distilled over, it was removed from the receiver into a test glass, about a grain of green sulphate of iron was added, and when this was dissolved, a small quantity of solution of potassa.
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