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How to Give Medicine

Following are a few simple rules, which it is well to obey when you give medicine:

1. Never give medicine in the dark. Read the label three times-before taking it off the shelf, before pouring, and after pouring.

2. Shake any liquid medicine.

3. Turn the label up when pouring. This keeps it clean. 4. Think what you are doing. Never speak or listen to any one when you are measuring medicine.

5. Give just the amount ordered, not one drop more or less. While pouring hold the medicine glass with the mark of the right amount level with your eye.

6. Cork the bottle at once.

Some medicines get stronger, others weaker when uncorked.

7. Read the label the third time.

8. Give the dose.

9. After a dose of unpleasant medicine, give water, a cracker or a peppermint.

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