Exercise 12. What drugs would be administered to the patient with: Epilepsy, heart failure, hypertension , insomnia, acute pain, thrombosis.
Exercise 13. Translate the following sentences, paying attention to Active and Passive Voice: 1. Diuretics excrete fluid and shrink the volume of blood within the vessels.
2. New kinds of microorganisms were discovered by scientists in the XX century.
3. The course of drug treatment of leukemia will be accompanied by X-ray treatment which should be applied externally.
4. The mixture contained less than 16% of oxygen.
5. This drug will act on the nervous system of the patient.
After this injection had been introduced the felt much more quiet and relaxed.
In the cases of shock and collapse vital processes have been speeded up by central nervous system stimulants.
The usual dose of the drug which was given in the treatment of leukemia constituted 6-10 mg per day at weekly intervals.
Exercise 14. Put questions to the underlined words: The excessive use of this drug may occasionally cause a rise in blood pressure.
2. The patient suffering from nausea and vomiting will be administered antiemetics.
3. Antiserum gave only temporary protection against the disease.
4. This antibiotic was obtained from naturally occurring microorganisms.
5. Most antibiotics nowadays are prepared synthetically.
6. The lobular pneumonia has successfully been treated with antibiotics.
7. Unlike vaccines, antiserums contain antibodies rather than substances that cause the body to produce antibodies.
8. Before the patient went to Africa he had been vaccinated against malaria.
Exercise 15. Open the brackets and translate the sentences into your native language: 1. Antiserums usually (to give) only temporary protection.
2. Antihistamines (not to cure) the allergic reaction, but they (to relieve) its symptoms. (refers to the future)
3. The patient never (to suffer) so much from an acute pain before so he (to prescribe) potent drugs.
4. The doctor stated, that insomnia (to cause) by stress at work.
5. If you take this drug regularly the formation of clots in veins and arteries (to prevent).
6. Heart rhythm (to control) by antiarrhythmics after a long treatment. (refers to the past)
7. Amphetamines already (to produce) restlessness and insomnia.
8. The loss of theappreciation of pain in this patient (to produce) by hypnotic drugs. (refers to the past)
