Catchword: heroic dose

Filed under: English, Drugs, Medical

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: An ounce in twenty-four hours, and a drachm at a dose, are heroic prescriptions, and not to be generally imitated.…In cases wherein the physician might be tempted to overstep nature with these heroic doses of opium, or tobacco, do not Dr. Physick’s tube and syringe, afford some hope of safety?

Article or Document Title:
“Observations and Facts on the Use of Tobacco in Tetanus &tc.”

Author:
S. Jackson

Article, document, publication, web site:
American Medical Recorder

Dateline:
Northumberland, Penn.

Date of publication:
Oct., 1826

Page number:
315

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