Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "five grains"

  • For this reason, the combination with a diffusible stimulant is always desirable: five grains of camphor and of extr.

  • Zinc sulphate (five grains to the ounce) may be used in the same manner.

  • Herpetic tonsillitis requires the ordinary treatment for erythematous tonsillitis, with additional topical treatment by sprays of alkaline solutions, such as sodium borate or bicarbonate, five grains to the ounce, or lime-water.

  • The eclampsia continued one hour, and were controlled by large and repeated doses of bromide of potassium, aided by clysters of five grains of hydrate of chloral in water.

  • Under these circumstances the hypodermic injection of from three to five grains of ergotin, repeated if necessary, has seldom in my experience failed to check the hemorrhage.

  • Five grains of calomel once a month, with a cathartic, five grains of rhubarb and a quarter of a grain of emetic tartar every night for many weeks.

  • Five grains of rhubarb, and one sixth of a grain of emetic tartar every night for some months, with or without half a grain of opium.

  • An ounce of this mixture contains forty-five grains of paraldehyde.

  • As a means of procuring sleep it may be given in doses ranging from fifteen to forty-five grains.

  • The hypnotic dose of hydrobromic acid is twenty-five grains, largely diluted with sweetened water.

  • If you wish you can take three to five grains of Iodide of Potash to each dose.

  • Use also iodide of potash, five grains, three times a day internally, while you are using external applications.

  • Sodium salicylate or aspirin given until the pain and temperature are relieved; usually five to ten grains of sodium salicylate every three hours for an adult; or five grains of the aspirin every three hours.

  • Externally, in solution, one to five grains of the crystals to one ounce of the solvent.

  • If the powder is to be taken as a medicine, from two to five grains may be given for a dose, a little diluted hydrochloric acid in water being taken at the same time.

  • If the above means fail, a pill containing a grain of camphor in five grains of extract of henbane should be given, and a warm bath taken.

  • As a purifying and cleansing lotion for wounds and sores, thymol should be mixed in the proportion of five grains thereof to an ounce of spirit of wine, an ounce of glycerine, and six ounces of water.

  • From three to five grains of the gum in a pill, or half-a-teaspoonful of the tincture, with a small wineglassful of warm milk, may be given for a dose.

  • Also tar pills are prepared of pitch and liquorice powder in equal parts, five grains in the whole pill.

  • One hundred grains of mercury, will give, on an average, one hundred and twenty-five grains of the powder.

  • Five grains of potassium will decompose three cubic inches of gas, and be converted into potassa, producing at the same time three-eighths of a grain of charcoal.

  • Thirty grains of this powder, mixed with four or five grains of sulphur, and struck with a heavy hammer, or heated on an iron, will explode with violence.

  • Wash the womb out with a solution consisting of five grains of Permanganate of Potash to one quart of water.

  • Reese of Philadelphia, Mr. Horsley of Cheltenham, by himself in the organs of an animal hypodermically poisoned; and also a case in which five grains had been taken, and only a little over a grain was found.

  • Yes; but the animal had taken about forty-five grains.

  • Again on the 17th he got four or five grains more of strychnia, promising the pupil who gave it to him the skin of a grey cat which he professed to be about to poison with it.

  • It is wise to give at the beginning of the disease a cathartic, such as five grains of calomel followed in twelve hours by a Seidlitz powder, if the bowels do not act freely before that time.

  • Five grains of calomel, at night, followed by one heaped tablespoonful of Rochelle salts dissolved in a full tumbler of water the next morning before breakfast, should be repeated twice a week till marked improvement is seen.

  • A single dose of calomel (three to five grains) is also useful for the same purpose.

  • Dover's powder in doses of five grains is useful to assuage cough.

  • For the first year, five grains, or even two and a half, would suffice for a couple of days; that is to say, there was no craving of the system for it during its deprivation for this space.

  • Two days more and I had come down to twenty-five grains.

  • There were twenty-five grains of it, eight fatal doses, and he had seen that it was fresh.

  • In his pocket he carried a vial containing twenty-five grains of powdered cocaine.

  • There was a pause, then the sick man finally admitted, "I took twenty-five grains of cocaine.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five grains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    class legislation; common conversation; first idea; five cards; five cases; five degrees; five eggs; five horizontal; five hundred years ago; five kilometres; five knots; five letters; five mile; five miles; five months; five ounces; five paces; five persons; five petals; five rams; five sous; five stories; five thousand; five yards; take counsel; though common