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How to use drachm in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word drachm? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Dr. Mead directs a drachm of an electuary similar to this to be taken evening and morning.
Historical documents show that Chinese emperor Wudi was impressed with the solidus, as well as the silver drachm of Sasanian Persia, the standard currency along the Silk Road.
This open-leg lifetime drachm from Sardis depicts as mint marks a rose under the throne and a monogram that looks a bit like a double E in the reverse left field.
It divides a pound into 12 ounces, an ounce into 8 drachms, and a drachm into 3 scruples or 60 grains.
In one experiment, a decoction of half a drachm of tobacco in four ounces of water was used as an enema in a patient suffering from general convulsion where there was no expected recovery.
Examples from Classical Literature
Why, I've eaten a drachm a day of the stuff, or drunk its equivalent in the tincture.
One drachm of the acid if pure completely dissolves on being shaken with half a pint of warm water.
Similarly the carbonate of guaiacol may be given in doses even as large as a drachm.
A drachm and a half of mercury, mixed with some warm water, was injected into the crural artery of a large dog.
Gave her one-half drachm gaultheria and requested her to take twenty drops in two hours if pain and soreness was not relieved.
Bromide of potassium and hydrate of chloral in drachm doses should be given in connection with conium.
The group includes many rare items, but exceptional among them is a previously unknown YHD drachm.
They weighed each, when entire, full one ounce and one drachm.
The best capture wouldn't be worth a drachm if we could not say, 'Hurrah!
When this solution has been filtered, add to it drachm of the aceto-nitr.
He had compounded an ounce of tincture of nux instead of a drachm!
This was the last drachm required to turn the scale of her indecision.
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