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Example sentences for "drugs"

Lexicographically close words:
drugget; drugging; druggist; druggists; drugless; drugstore; drum; drumbeat; drumhead; drumikin
  1. The Indian and Afghan falconers get it, as well as the saker, into condition by frequent physicking; and the list of drugs formerly used for it in England is of portentous length.

  2. Nine-tenths of the most potent drugs and chemical preparations used in pharmacy, are vended in a sophisticated state by dealers who would be the last to be suspected.

  3. Indeed, some of the most common and cheap drugs do not escape the adulterating hand of the unprincipled druggist.

  4. The defendant is a brewer, and was brought up under an indictment charging him with having made use of various deleterious drugs in his brewery, among which were capsicum, copperas, &c.

  5. Cheapness, and not genuineness and excellence, is the grand desideratum with the unprincipled dealers in drugs and medicines.

  6. These subterraneous philosophers are daily employed in the transmutation of liquors; and by the power of magical drugs and incantations, raising under the streets of London the choicest products of the hills and valleys of France.

  7. The intoxicating qualities of porter are to be ascribed to the various drugs intermixed with it.

  8. It is only from use and habit, or comparisons with specimens of known quality, that we can judge of the goodness, either of the drugs themselves, or of their oils.

  9. Another species of fraud, to which I shall at present but briefly advert, and which has increased to so alarming an extent, that it loudly calls for the interference of government, is the adulteration of drugs and medicines.

  10. Opium and other drugs were also administered to stupefy the woman and prevent her from feeling pain.

  11. Spirituous liquors and intoxicating drugs are indulged in to a large extent, and chiefs of clans assume the title of Bhangi or drinkers of hemp (bhang) as a mark of honour.

  12. Drugs are not forbidden, but they are not usually addicted to them.

  13. But they abstain from tobacco, drugs and spirits, and are noted for their regard for animal life, which is such that not only will they not themselves kill any living creature, but they do their utmost to prevent others from doing so.

  14. They're developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs, devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful.

  15. As we speak, this law is making prescription drugs cheaper for seniors and giving uninsured students a chance to stay on their patients'--parents' coverage.

  16. Most of them are out and out humbugs, and make up for their richness in drugs by their poorness in good, pure fat and alkali.

  17. We should not pour drugs of which we know little into a body of which we know less.

  18. Quarantine, inoculation, improvement of living and sanitary conditions, the use of drugs and medicines of all sorts other than vaccination, have no effect whatever upon either the spread or the fatality of the disease.

  19. Sedative drugs directed towards quieting the nervous excitability may be of service, but tonics, appetisers, laxatives, and drugs with a direct action on the stomach will have but little effect.

  20. It is not, of course, suggested that these drugs should be given freely or as a routine to every hungry baby wailing for the breast, or that we can hope to combat or ward off an inherited neuropathy by a few doses of a sedative.

  21. That it is wrong and probably ineffective to trust entirely to the drugs is certainly true, but as a temporary measure, to break the faulty suggestion and the bad habit, their use is both legitimate and successful.

  22. As to whether it is right in insomnia in childhood to prescribe depressant drugs is a question on which very various opinions are held.

  23. This witness further stated that some chemists charged consultation fees in addition to charges for drugs applied, and in certain cases charges for drugs were made which were little short of blackmail.

  24. The supply of drugs and appliances which are made available for use by the individual before exposure to infection.

  25. Poetry, love, and such-like, are the drugs earth has to offer to high natures, as she offers to low ones debauchery.

  26. But," he said at a family consultation, for Sir Austin had told him how it stood with the young man, "drugs are not much in cases of this sort.

  27. There have also been found boxes of various shapes for containing medicaments, cylindrical boxes for drugs in sticks, boxes divided into little partitions for drugs in semi-solid form, and other boxes for powders.

  28. Frequent references to the use of drugs for this purpose may be found in the lay writers such as Juvenal and Suetonius (Domitian), and the later medical authors do not hesitate to describe the composition of abortifacient pessaries.

  29. Similar small slabs, engraved with oculists' names and the names of drugs to serve as seals, have been found in considerable numbers, but these oculists' seals have already an extensive literature of their own.

  30. The scientific writer Dunovan, in his Domestic Economy, makes us acquainted with a few of the drugs with which beer is doctored.

  31. It is absolutely frightful to contemplate the list of poisons and drugs with which malt liquors have been (as it is technically and descriptively called) doctored.

  32. These subterraneous philosophers are daily employed in the transmutation of liquors, and, by the power of magical drugs and incantations, raising under the streets of London the choicest products of the hills and valleys of France.

  33. Antianxiety drugs can reduce agitation and produce a relative sense of calm.

  34. Consequently, existential therapists tend to disapprove of the use of drugs in therapy.

  35. Treatment in about one-third of noninsulin-dependent diabetics is possible by diet alone; in others, it is necessary to take oral hypoglycemic drugs that stimulate the release of insulin.

  36. Too, as the number of manufactured drugs increases, the potential for interactions among different medications increases greatly.

  37. Antianxiety drugs, the minor tranquilizers, can be grouped with these drugs because of their sedative effect.

  38. The only professionals who are legally authorized to prescribe psychotropic drugs are physicians and, in particular, psychiatrists.

  39. Antidepressants These drugs are used primarily to treat what psychiatrists call endogenous depression--that is, major, incapacitating depression that is not associated with an outside event or situation.

  40. Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs These drugs act as sedatives at low doses and produce a "hypnotic" action at higher doses.

  41. Drugs for Headache, Migraine, and Neuralgia Drugs for these common kinds of pain are widespread.

  42. Antiparkinsonian Drugs These drugs have helped the lives of many people who are {230} affected by the characteristic involuntary tremors of this disease, which can cause abnormalities in gait and trembling of the voluntary muscles.

  43. Psychotropic drugs can be used by themselves or in conjunction with psychotherapy.

  44. Frequently, drugs are used to help reduce the severity of symptoms in patients so that they may benefit from psychotherapy.

  45. He knows, too, that some poisonous drugs are to be applied as ointments (O.

  46. Such drugs destroy a man's will, his sense of justice--they rot his very soul!

  47. These drugs give them a lower order of intelligence, and make them more cowardly, though often more desperate when they find themselves driven into a corner.

  48. Their drugs turned to durt, their simples were simple things.

  49. The administration of certain antibiotic drugs has produced cockroaches very nearly free of bacteroids.

  50. It is obvious that in all these experiments the action of the drugs on the bacteroids was accompanied by equivocal side effects which confused interpretation of the results.

  51. The effect of penicillin and certain sulfa drugs on the intracellular bacteroids of the cockroach.

  52. Brues and Dunn (1945) found that although sulfa drugs had no effect on the bacteroids, penicillin in large doses reduced the number of bacteroids in Blaberus craniifer, but the cockroaches died within a few days.

  53. FN#20] There he spread his carpet and setting out thereon his drugs and instruments of medicine, praised himself and his skill and vaunted himself of understanding such as none but he might claim.

  54. So he arose and taking his weaving gear, sold it and bought with the price drugs and simples and wrought himself a carpet, with which they set out and journeyed to a certain village, where they took up their abode.

  55. Instead, leaning almost carelessly and indifferently against the table at which he had been busy with drugs and bottles, he took a small file from his waistcoat pocket and began to polish his carefully cut nails.

  56. One of the most prominent of our contemporary physicians who are getting away from the use of drugs has said that eighty-five per cent of all illnesses get well of their own accord, no matter what may or may not be done for them.

  57. The hundreds of drugs listed in books on materia medica I find are gradually being reduced in number to a possible forty or fifty, and one doctor makes the radical statement that they can be cut down to the 'six or seven real drugs.

  58. In recent years it has begun to dawn upon doctors and patients alike that the sick who recover do so, not because of the drugs which they have taken, but in spite of them!

  59. He did not say that without drugs or material remedies we could do nothing, but that without the Christ-principle mankind would continue, as before, to miss the mark.

  60. We have got to uproot from his consciousness the thought that alcohol and drugs are a power.

  61. Can you with drugs change a state of mind?

  62. The world again slipped back steadily from the spiritual to the material, and to-day ethics constitutes our religion, and stupid drugs hold sway where once sat enthroned the healing Christ-principle.

  63. Besides, man must earn his bread in some way under our present crude and inhuman social system, and if the demand for drugs exists we may be very sure it will be supplied by others, if not by ourselves.

  64. But a little while ago a new school of medicine sprung up in which drugs were almost wholly discarded.

  65. Attenuation to the thousandth or even the five-thousandth part, was used, and when drugs are so attenuated, there is not much left to them.

  66. Who shall say but that another step may be taken or has been taken, in dropping the use of drugs and medicines entirely?

  67. To a certain extent they had trusted him, but the Dutchman's drugs had been insufficient.

  68. Sooner or later my store of drugs would be exhausted, and then it was possible that I might be allowed to go down to the coast and replenish the chest.

  69. All preventive and abortive methods, drugs and contrivances cannot be too severely condemned.

  70. All sorts of drugs and contrivances have been used by many married people to dodge the natural consequences of the sexual relations.

  71. No well informed doctor will recommend the use of drugs in such cases.

  72. They do not all die within this time, though many of them do succumb to the horrors of the life and accompanying disease, drugs and drink in much less time.

  73. No intelligent, conscientious doctor will advise the use of drugs for seminal weakness.

  74. Oliver Wendell Holmes had a custom of saying, “If all the drugs of the world were thrown into the sea, it would be a blessing to humanity, but a curse to the fish.

  75. They should point out the dangers of losing self-control through the use, even the rare use, of alcohol or of drugs which take strong effect on the nervous system.

  76. If these drugs were removed, these drinks would be no more tempting than a cup of warm water.

  77. Such persons will continue to use drugs regardless of any information associated with their negative effects.

  78. Example: Usually, drugs create an OMPSM called "use them".


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drugs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.