The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s2.5

c4.s2.5

Supposing the full dose of a medicine for adults to be two tolás, the doses for children of different ages would be as follows :— For infants a month old, one gunjá, and an additional gunjá for each additional month. For children a year old, the dose would be one máshá or twelve gunjás, and an additional máshá for every year, till the full dose of sixteen máshás or two tolás is reached at the sixteenth year. From sixteen to seventy the full dose should be used, after which it should be again gradually reduced. When infants are unable to take decoctions and other bulky medicines, their nurses are made to take them. Sometimes small quantities of medicines are applied to the nipples, and the infants made to suck them.