DOSE

of medicine according to “ge can be roughly calculated by the following fraction. At one year ye y, the adult dose, and for caigh year above the first add the number to the top and to the bottom of the fraction so that for two years of age givo * or!, for four years of age /; or }, and so on up to fifteen het of ago. Children, however, take purgatives and belladonna in relatively much larger doses than sdulta, whilst they are poisoned by doses of opium much smaller than the above fraction indicates. DOVER’S [s. 355]