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Example sentences for "large doses"

  • Large doses of physostigmine neutralise the dilatation, but it is not influenced by muscarine or pilocarpine: this form is characteristic of atropine, and it has been called mydriasis paralytica periphera.

  • The substance acts on a frog, causing, in large doses, tetanus.

  • In large doses Ipecac is a systemic emetic.

  • This drug is an anodyne, stimulant, and diaphoretic, and, in large doses, a narcotic and an irritant.

  • Large doses of alcohol cause a diminution of the temperature of the body, which in fevers is more marked than in the normal state.

  • Calomel in large doses has a history very like that of antimony.

  • What he sent was a remedy that had been used with indifferent success for scurvy when taken in large doses.

  • There are a good many cases of large doses.

  • When administered in large doses there is a retention of some in excess of what is required for the destruction of life.

  • I said that antimony in the form of tartar emetic might occasion vomiting and other symptoms of irritation, and that in large doses it would cause death, preceded by convulsions.

  • If given in large doses it produces poisonous effects, which are likely to be manifested some time after the administration.

  • The treatment consists in administering sulphur in large doses (2 to 4 ounces) or iron powder.

  • Some substances that are not usually looked upon as poisons may destroy life if given in large doses, such as common salt.

  • In large doses it causes profuse salivation, champing of the jaws, and attempts at swallowing.

  • Boracic acid was once administered internally, in large doses, as an anodyne, antispasmodic, and sedative, but is now scarcely ever employed as a medicine.

  • It is a drastic purgative; and, in large doses, poisonous.

  • It purges violently when given in large doses, causes nausea and vomiting, and may produce collapse.

  • Maclagan, while admitting that the salicyl compounds do not ward off cardiac complications, or cure them when they exist, maintains that their existence is an additional reason for giving those remedies freely and in large doses.

  • When rupture of a deep-seated artery is suspected, large doses of fluid extract of ergot may be given to produce contraction of the blood vessels.

  • Where mucous membrane is very flabby, large doses of the perchloride.

  • Senega: a saturated decoction in large doses, a pint daily, about two weeks before period.

  • The milky juice of the plant is emetic and cathartic in large doses, but simply laxative when given in doses of 8 or 10 drops.

  • In large doses it causes vomiting, bloody diarrhoea and a series of nervous phenomena that may end in death.

  • Some believe that the leaves and fruit contain toxic principles, which may well be true considering the effects of large doses of their preparations.

  • It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic soda or potash on sawdust, as a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses.

  • It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic.

  • Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.

  • That in those cases in which it is of service it relieves the paroxysms, without causing any other unpleasant symptoms, such as are sometimes caused by the use of large doses of the bromides.

  • The remedy leaves no after effects, is incapable of creating an appetite, and, so far as my observation extends, it is perfectly harmless even in large doses, often repeated.

  • Large doses of tincture of digitalis, sometimes reaching an ounce every four hours, were used by Jones, of Jersey.

  • Sleep is produced only by the use of the drug in large doses, which also tend to excite delirium, sometimes even reaching to the height of maniacal fury.

  • Large doses of the plant, or of its berries, would, on the contrary, aggravate these convulsive disorders.

  • Dioscorides praised it for weak and inflamed eyes, but in large doses it is emetic and purgative.

  • Large doses (from half a pound to two pounds) have been given in obstinate cases of constipation, intussusception, &c.

  • In large doses it has been administered without any serious result, a circumstance which may be accounted for by the promptitude with which it excites vomiting and purging.

  • The bicarbonates are probably the best for this purpose, for they may be given in large doses, being less irritating.

  • Nor do they, except in large doses, exert themselves any peculiar action on that fluid.

  • Turpentine, when given in large doses, may perhaps, by undergoing a change, come under the head of vegetable substances dissolved by alkalies.

  • I believe that the same resinous Cathartics which have the power of acting specifically, may have, especially when in large doses, a double action.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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