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The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
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To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
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A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
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The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
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To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
v. t.
To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
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A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.
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A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.
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A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
v. t. & i.
To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.
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The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.
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