four-grain

Updated: May 19, 2025

I was left alone with Tom, whom we had laid on a couch. He lay very still, and his eyes were half closed. I began my work of keeping him awake. "Well, old man," I said, "you've had a narrow squeak, but we've pulled you through. When you were attending lectures, Tom, didn't any of the professors ever casually remark that m-o-r-p-h-i-a never spells 'quinia, especially in four-grain doses?

O. Henry - Sixes and Sevens

ENDOMETRITIS: Ext. Viburnum Prun, forty grains; ext. Hamamelis, twenty grains; Ergotin, ten grains; ext. Nux Vomica, two grains; Hydrastin, one grain. Make twenty pills. Dose: One pill morning and night. FIBROID TUMORS: Chromium Sulphate, four-grain tablets. Dose: One tablet after meals. FISSURE OF NIPPLES: Apply Iodoform, one dram; carbolic acid, twenty grains; white Petrolatum, one ounce.

B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis - Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics