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The average opium-smoker consuming twenty-five pills a day gets only the equivalent of about a quarter grain of morphine taken hypodermically or of a half grain taken by the mouth.

The only anesthetic was a quarter grain of novocain, administered locally.

While Gaynor was thus engaged he managed to crawl from bed and take a quarter grain of morphia in addition to the other quarter that Gaynor had just given him.

Repeated doses of strychnine acetas hypodermically given, but in quarter grain doses.

Treatment.—Strychnine acetas injected in quarter grain doses under the skin and repeated as often as desirable.