Catchword for “heroic dose”
Catchword: heroic dose
Part of Speech: n.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended this in a heroic dose as a preliminary to reducing difficult hernias, because it caused such extreme languor that the patient had “not the power to exert any of the voluntary muscles of the body,” thus almost repeating the Royal Society’s classic experiment with the cat.
Article or Document Title:
“Some Old Bizarre Medical Remedies”
“Some Old Bizarre Medical Remedies”
Author:
Hartwin A. Schulze
Hartwin A. Schulze
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Scientific Monthly
Scientific Monthly
Date of Publication:
May, 1935
May, 1935
Page Number:
437
437
Volume: 40
Number or Issue: 5
This cite belongs to a full entry for heroic dose.
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