NICE WAYS OF TAKING MEDICINE
When medicine is ordered it should be made as pleasant as possible to take. It should never be poured out in front of the patient, but taken to the room on a daintily arranged tray. There should be something to take after it on the tray, also. Water is good, but most people prefer something to eat, so a dry biscuit might be offered. If you have to give a pill or tablet to a patient, hand this on a spoon. To make castor oil palatable, put some orange juice at the bottom of a small glass, then put the dose of oil, and finally some more orange juice. If this is taken right off, the castor oil will not be noticed at all. When giving aspirin, it is a good plan to crush up the tablets and melt them in' water to which a little carbonate of soda has been added. Cod liver oil should be given direct from a spoon—not put into a glass. When children refuse medicine, it is better to coax or bribe them into taking it rather than to use force. Never give medicine to a child in any kind of food. If you do, you will find they will always dislike this particular food afterwards.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 20
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216NICE WAYS OF TAKING MEDICINE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 20
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