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Example sentences for "twenty drops"

  • Ten to twenty drops at a dose," they say, "cautiously increased.

  • For a nervous headache there is nothing better for immediate relief than fifteen or twenty drops of the aromatic spirits of ammonia.

  • This can be given frequently; ten to twenty drops of laudanum can be added to the poultices when the piles are very painful.

  • Twenty drops of fluid extract of Queen's root three times a day.

  • Antidotes: Solution of tannic acid, twenty drops to a glass of water, to wash out the stomach.

  • As an emetic the dose is, of powder, five to ten grains in warm water; of fluid extract, ten to twenty drops.

  • Dose--Of the fluid extract, from ten to twenty drops taken in a tablespoonful of water.

  • When symptoms of returning consciousness begin to show themselves, give a little wine, brandy, or twenty drops of sal-volatile and water.

  • Out chemists make a medicinal tincture of Feverfew, the dose of which is from ten to twenty drops, with a spoonful of water, three times a day.

  • From eight to twenty drops may be given as a dose to produce these effects; but an immoderate dose will purge, or intoxicate, and stupefy, causing strangury, and congestion of the kidneys.

  • Used as a sedative in tincture; ten to twenty drops in water.

  • A sedative, anodyne, astringent, narcotic, and irritant poison; fifteen to twenty drops.

  • If the cough is hard and dry, ten to twenty drops of syrup of ipecac alone should be given instead of the mixture, and when the cough is loosened, the mixture can be again administered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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