We have endeavored to always give the dose throughout this book as we
recognized the lack of accurate and detailed information regarding the
administering of medicines as one of the weak features in practically all
home medical books. If we have overlooked a few instances we wish to
provide for such omissions by giving the table of doses generally used by
nurses as a basis for determining the dose of any medicine she may be
using for a particular age.
Rule usually followed.--For children under twelve years of age. Make a
fraction. Use the age of the child for the upper number, numerator. The
number below the line, denominator, is twelve, added to the age of the
child. For example: If your child is two years old you would begin by
placing two as numerator, thus 2/, then you add 2 + 12 = 14 and place 14
below the line and you have 2/14 or 1/7. You then take 1/7 of the adult
dose for your two-year-old child. If the dose for an adult is 21 drops, a
child of two years is given 3 drops, etc.