Sentence examples for prescribed as a from inspiring English sources

Thalidomide was originally prescribed as a "wonder drug" for morning sickness, headaches, coughs, insomnia and colds.

-- that nerve cutting was commonly prescribed as a treatment for pain.

The first was the discovery that thalidomide, which was prescribed as a sedative, caused birth defects.

Are antidepression medications prescribed as a matter of course in situations like that?

But death is too often prescribed as a de facto treatment for suffering when much less aggressive possibilities exist.

He says coming off heroin was relatively easy; it was his much longer addiction to methadone (prescribed as a heroin substitute) that was the real problem.

Matthew Passion," Philippe Herreweghe, will lead a performance at Alice Tully Hall; it should probably be prescribed as a remedy for every viewer of the film.

Also known as fagara, they are a component of Chinese five-spice powder and are often prescribed as a cure for dysentery.

By itself, the substance, known as polyethylene glycol, or PEG, does not heal, battle germs or kill cancer, although it is prescribed as a laxative before bowel surgery.

And which is why diary-keeping is often prescribed as a therapy for those with depression, or those who feel their lives are somehow out of control.

Among them were several hundred from Jabhat al-Nusra, a hardline Islamist group prescribed as a terrorist organisation by the US.