MEDICINE

Administration of. Accuracy in the dose and time of administration is important. Tho ve el in which the medicine is given ehould be scrupulously clean and thin-lipped, a medicine or vine ae being preferable to a thick china spoon. If any sediment is present, the bottle should be well shaken. Food should seldom be used to administer medicine in, for — a ociati@ms are thus induced. Pills should taken with the head upright or a little forward, and a little water should be a to aid in swallowing them. Powders are best placed on the back of tho tongue, and a litth water thon taken. It is the rule in prescribing to order a drag at such a time that it may aid nature as much as po ible; [s. 385]