A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle.

  • John Forbes Royle
Date:
MDCCCLVI [1856]
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Credit: A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Various circumstances influence the action of medicines, on account of which they cannot always be prescribed in the same doses, even to the same individual ; but besides this, the mode of preparation, age, sex, mode of life, climate, and peculiar idiosyncrasies, but especially age,—all modify the doses in which Medicines should be prescribed. The Table formed by Gaubius is of some use as a general guide for age. GAUBIUS’ TABLE, Regulating the ordinary Proportion of Poses according to the Age of the Patient. •r an adult, suppose the dose to be i or 1 drachm. Under 1 year will require i 12 y y 5 grains. 2 y y y y 1 S yy 3 „ > 5 3 y y y y y y ] 6 y y 10 „ 5 > 4 y y y y y y 1 4 y y 15 „ 5 ? 7 y y y y y y 1 3 y y 1 scruple. ? y 14 y y y y y y 1 2 yy 4 drachm. 5 ? 20 y y y y y y 2 3 y y 2 scruples. 5 > 21 to 60. , the full dose, or 1 y y 1 drachm. Above this age, an inverse gradation must be observed.