Narcotic and irritant; in small doses, sedative and stimulant; one to four drachms.
The sedative effect of lead lotion in pruritus is well known.
Look in at him from time to time through the night, and give him another dose of the sedative mixture if he wakes.
The doctor's composing draught, partially disturbed in its operation for the moment only, had recovered its sedative influence on his brain.
I submissively used whatever sedative remedies he prescribed; but what most of all contributed to my recovery was, that the horrible knocking was not heard any more, and that the intolerable double seemed to have forsaken me altogether.
Nay, nay, instead of poison, rather the tranquillizing and sedative remedy of pleasant society, and moderate dissipation.
Substitute for Morphine as a Sedative and Anodyne.
Lime Water: a sedative and astringent; in later stages with glycerin.
Quinine: in the "horrors" stage it acts as a sedative to the brain and restores the digestive functions.
Codeine: as a sedative in cases of abdominal tumor.
Instead of the material for the elixir of the gods being pounded by the Sekti of Heliopolis and incidentally becoming a sedative for Hathor, it is the milk of the Divine Cow herself which is churned to provide the amrita.
Hence the god is said to have sent to Elephantine for the red ochre to make a sedative draught to overcome her destructive zeal.
These fruits can be either elixirs of life and food of the gods, or weapons for overcoming the dragon as Hathor (Sekhet) was conquered by her sedative draught.
The mandrake is such a sedative as might have been employed to calm the murderous frenzy of a maniacal woman.
But he was also an instrument for vanquishing the demon, when the intoxicating beer or the sedative drink (the potency of which was due to the indwelling spirit of the god) was the chosen means of overcoming the dragon.
But if some foreign story of the action of a sedative drug had become blended with and incorporated in the highly complex and composite Egyptian legend the narrative would be more intelligible.
A sedative feeling of peace took possession of his heart.
It has a sedative influence upon the disturbed nervous system of the mother.
On no account should recourse be had to opiates or dangerous sedative drugs.
Their appearance in the midst of that turbulent band was a sedative which soon allayed the chronic turmoil in which the settlement was embroiled.
The day had closed in thick darkness and a storm before Annie awoke from the deep sleep which the sedative had prolonged.
The old woman had evidently been so "started" that she needed the sedative of a short clay pipe, highly colored indeed, still a connoisseur in meerschaums would scarcely covet it.
Sidenote: Effect ofsedative occupations upon nutrition] Under continued physical exertion, the body will thrive for a time on an unbalanced diet.
John Fearns writes of this remedy in Chicago Medical Times, 1896:) At this writing I wish to speak not of the tonic and antiseptic properties of this species of Salix, but of its usefulness as a sedative to the generative system.
As a sedativeon these lines I have had very good results from its use.
He prescribed a sedative mixture, but the girl got worse, and, after a further convulsion, died on the following morning.
Tobacco is a powerful sedative poison; used in large quantities it causes vertigo, stupor, faintness, and general depression of the nervous system.
From a very early period it has been employed as a sedative and anodyne, for producing sleep, although simple hallucinations sometimes accompany its use.
The riot did not come off; partly, I think, because the opportune production of the chair-leg had a sedative effect, and partly owing to wise counsels from one or two of my opponents.
Coffee, tea, chocolate and cocoa are stimulants, with sedative after-effects.
Sedative drugs, hyoscyamin, hyoscin, duboisin, and scopolamin, do not last long and should be used cautiously.
Tonic and sedative drugs and suggestive remedies were of no avail.
When he had finished, Aurora held a sedative powder all nicely wrapped in a wet wafer ready for him.
She was searching her nurse's memory for some further sedative by which to counteract a first one gone wrong, when the thread of her medical meditation snapped, her attention fastened upon what Gerald was saying.
Franco offered to do this for him, and the Professor accepted, pleading his headache, and began unrolling his turban before a basin of the sedative water.
Since war has been talked of, I have cast aside both camphor and sedative waters, but my nerves are in a state of such extraordinary tension that it seems as if, were they touched, sparks must fly from them.
On the way he explained that, secundum Raspail, he had applied a compress of some sedative water to his head, for he was threatened with a headache.
What will you do without your camphor, your sedative water, and all the rest?
In my haste I even tipped over the basin of sedative water.
In capping a pulp, irritation is allayed by antiseptic and sedative treatment, and a metallic cap, lined with a non-irritant sedative paste, is applied under aseptic conditions immediately over the point of pulp exposure.
The air had immediate and sedative effect upon Miss Schump's rather distressing symptoms of unrest, but not quite allaying a certain state of mental upheaval.
Risen also, her face soft and tremulous for him, Mrs. Kantor put out a gentle, a sedative hand upon his sleeve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
