"Drachm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drachm, but recovery has taken place after much larger quantities, if well diluted or taken ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson
... an irritation of the kidneys. Give 1 quart of flaxseed tea daily, change the food and give 1 drachm of C. P. hydro-chloric acid in ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson
... commerce, used in varnish-making, contains so much impurity that the waste of chloroform renders it very undesirable to use. The amber should be pounded in a mortar, and, to an ounce by measure of chloroform, add a drachm and a half of amber (only about one-fourth of it will be dissolved), and this requires two days' maceration. It should be filtered through fine blotting-paper. Being so very fluid, it runs most freely over the collodion, and, when ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... water jug would the head of a queen. Since laughter is a privilege granted to man alone, and he has sufficient causes for tears within his reach, without adding to them by books, I have considered it a thing most patriotic to publish a drachm of merriment for these times, when weariness falls like a fine rain, wetting us, soaking into us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Republic. But of those old ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... rectified spirit of wine in a wide-mouthed bottle; add one ounce of gum sandarac, a quarter of an ounce of gum mastic, and a drachm of camphor, all in powder. Put a stopper in the bottle, set it near a fire, and shake it occasionally. When all the gums are quite dissolved, add one ounce of oil of turpentine; then strain through muslin into another clean, dry wide-mouthed ...
— The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 • Unknown
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