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Example sentences for "twenty grains"

  • Dose of powder as an emetic, ten to twenty grains.

  • For pernicious forms: Hydrochlorate of quinine and urea ten to twenty grains, given hypodermically, every three or four hours until improvement occurs, when the sulphate of quinine by the mouth may be substituted.

  • As a cathartic, five to twenty grains of powder.

  • Other medicines: Sulphate of zinc, ten to twenty grains at a dose, in a cup of warm water; or fluid extract of ipecac fifteen to thirty drops, or syrup of ipecac one teaspoonful.

  • A solution containing from one to twenty grains in an ounce of water is used as a lotion for foul ulcers.

  • Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin, twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains.

  • Calcium chloride in doses of five to twenty grains should be tried in obstinate cases.

  • Some cases respond more rapidly to the use of a drying ointment, such as Lassar's paste, with ten to twenty grains of white precipitate or sulphur to the ounce.

  • Also give fifteen to twenty grains of Epsom Salts to each affected fowl.

  • Give Calomel, ten to twenty grains, then follow with large doses of regulator and tonic as prescribed on first page of this chapter.

  • If constipated, give Calomel, fifteen to twenty grains, or, if diarrhoea appears, give hog regulator and tonic as prescribed on first page of this chapter.

  • It should be given in doses varying from ten to twenty grains, preferably in solution.

  • Its internal administration to the extent of five to twenty grains daily, given largely diluted, in small and frequent doses, is of less positive value.

  • Carbolic acid may be profitably given to the extent of fifteen drops daily, iodide of potassium ten to twenty grains thrice a day, and sulphate of quinia ten grains at the same intervals.

  • Twenty grains of sulphate of zinc in an ounce and a half of water; the draught to be repeated if vomiting does not take place in a quarter of an hour.

  • Twenty grains of sulphate of zinc in an ounce and a half of water.

  • Salts of tartar, two scruples, twenty grains of powdered cochineal; 1/4 lb.

  • Dose, from ten to twenty grains as a tonic after fevers, in all cases of debility, and dyspepsia attended with acidity.

  • Ascarides are said to be weakened by twenty grains of cinnabar and five of rhubarb taken every night, but not to be cured by this process.

  • Twenty grains of calomel in small pills, or one grain of aloe every hour till stools are procured.

  • The dose of the authorised officinal juice is from one to two teaspoonfuls, and from five to twenty grains of the prepared extract.

  • The doses are of the powdered bark from ten to twenty grains; of the oil from one to five drops; of the tincture from half to one teaspoonful, and of the distilled water from one to two tablespoonfuls.

  • The dose of the dried and powdered flowers is from fifteen to twenty grains.

  • A trituration made from the leaves, berries, and tender twigs, is given for epilepsy, in doses of twenty grains, twice or three times a day.

  • For this purpose borax is most generally used, in the proportion of twenty grains to the ounce of water or the half ounce of glycerin.

  • Twenty grains of Magnesia preserved six drachms of ox's gall free from any signs of corruption for twenty-four hours after the standard containing gall and water, of each six drachms, had become putrid.

  • As soon as the Gonorrhaea is stopt, to be certain of a perfect Cure, a Dram of the Mercurial Panacaea is to be taken, from fifteen to twenty Grains at a time, in Conserve of Roses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always full; cold storage; compulsory labour; general account; high hand; larger share; light green; native name; saith thus; twenty days; twenty fathoms; twenty feet; twenty four; twenty francs; twenty grains; twenty guns; twenty leagues; twenty marks; twenty miles; twenty million; twenty millions; twenty paces; twenty pound; twenty times; twenty windows; useful labor