Speech Patterns

1. Will you tell me where the nearest drugstore is?

2. Is that drugstore open round the clock?

3. Could I have the drug/mixture/prescription ordered?

4. When will the medicine be ready?

5. Is it a strong-effective drug?

6. What are the directions for administration of the drug?

7. I would recommend you a superior drug for headache. It is…

8. You should take it a tablespoonful every 8 hours after meals.

9. How often should I gargle my throat with this mouthwash?

10. This drug is strong-effective, but it may cause some side-effects, for instance...

Annotation to a Drug:

description описание

advantages преимущества

action действие

properties and action свойства и действие

mode of action способ (воз)действия

clinical indications клинические показания

indications and uses показания и применение

contraindications противопоказания

dosage and application дозировка и применение

dosage and administration дозировка и назначение

mode of administration способ применения.

attention! Warnings. Внимание! Предупреждения.

precautions/precautionary measures предостережения

pharmaceutical precautions фармацевтические предостережения

side effects побочные эффекты

unfavourable reactions нежелательные реакции

unwanted effects нежелательные действия

period of validity срок годности

expiry date срок годности

availability формы выпуска

presentation формы выпуска _

packages упаковка

supply формы выпуска

storage хранение

Texts and Dialogues At the Chemist’s

There are two departments in the chemist’s shop. At the chemist’s department one can have the medicine right away (immediately), other drugs have to be ordered at the prescription department. At the chemist’s all drugs are kept in drug cabinets. Every small bottle, a tube or a box of medicine has a label on it. White labels indicate drugs for internal use, yellow ones indicate drugs for external use and blue ones indicate drugs used for injections. The dose to be taken is usually indicated on a signature or a label. It is necessary for chemists, nurses, doctors and patients themselves. It prevents confusing different remedies because some of them are poisonous and their overdosage may cause untoward reactions and sometimes even death.

In the drug cabinets one can see small parcels of different powders, ampoules of glucose and other drugs used for intravenous and intramuscular injections, tubes of healing ointments which are rubbed in to relieve pain or skin irritation, different pills for internal use: sedatives and tonics, vitamins, sleeping-draughts, laxatives, cardiovascular drugs, bottles of iodine and so on.

At the prescription department there are two drug cabinets with the big letters A and B. Poisonous medicines are kept in the drug cabinet marked with the letter A, and all strong-effective drugs are kept in the drug cabinet having the letter B. At the prescription department one can get tablets for headache, cough mixtures, alcohol to sponge the skin and rinse one’s hands.

At the chemist's one can get not only any medicine he needs but also a good piece of advice such as: to keep the drug in a cool place and shake it before using, to take a tablespoonful of the mixture three times a day to relieve one's cough and to be well again soon.