Exercises. When you receive a prescription from the doctor or need some medicines you go to the chemist’s shop

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When you receive a prescription from the doctor or need some medicines you go to the chemist’s shop.

There are two departments at a big chemist’s shop. At the chemist’s department one can have medicines right away; other drugs can be ordered at the prescription department.

At the chemist’s one can buy drugs in solid and liquid forms such as: pills or tablets, capsules, powders, mixtures, drops, ointments, tinctures, syrups, and so on. It may be pain-killers, antibiotics, antiseptics, laxatives, tonics, vitamins, and other drugs and solutions.

Every small bottle, tube or box of medicine has a label on it. The labels indicate drugs for internal, external use or injections. The annotation to the drug contains essential information about it: the name of a drug, manufacturer, and composition, directions for use, possible side effects and precautions. It is very important, because any overdosage may cause side effect or even death.

At the chemist’s we may buy things necessary for patients’ care: cotton-wool, dressing material, adhesive plasters, mustard plasters. One can get hot-water bottles, medicine droppers, thermometers, tonometers, syringes and so on. There is also a big choice of hygienic means for children and adults.

Задание 1. Ответьте на вопросы по содержанию текста.

1. Where do you go if you need some medicine?

2. What departments are there at the chemist’s?

3. In what forms can you order or buy drugs at the chemist’s?

4. Where is the name of the drug and the dose to be taken usually indicated?

5. What information does the annotation to a drug contain?

6. What one can buy at the chemist’s?

Задание 2. Найдите в тексте эквиваленты следующим словосочетаниям:

1. a department where one can order drugs;

2. a small slip of paper on which the name of a medicine is written;

3. drugs taken orally;

4. an excessive dose of a drug;

5. an instrument by which a medicine is introduced into the vein;

6. an instrument for measuring a temperature.

Задание 3. Перефразируйте предложения согласно модели. Переведите на русский язык.

Model: I stick a label.

The label is stuck by me.

1. The overdosage may cause a death.

2. This drug caused a side effect.

3. I bought vitamins at the chemist’s shop.

4. My sister applied a hot-water bottle to her feet.

5. The doctor administered a cough mixture.

Задание 4. Составьте вопросы к следующим предложениям (общий и специальный вопросы):

1. The nurse made him an intramuscular injection.

2. This drug caused allergic reaction on the skin.

3. This child takes this medicine three times a day.

4. The doctor will prescribe some sleeping drugs to her.

5. The name of the drug is indicated on a label.

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