Excerpt from Synopsis of the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania If the design be to act upon the bowels, large quantities are to be used, but the amount proportioned to the age. For an adult 3. Pint is usually directed, but larger quantities are some times required. An infant requires an ounce or more; a child of five years, three or four. Advantages and disadvantages of employment. Mode of forming injections, and the instruments employed for their administration. Solids introduced into the rectum are called suppositories. Substances used, and the intention. Gases are sometimes used. The modes of using them. III. Urethra and Bladder. - These organs are simply used for the local impression to be made upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.