What is "regimen"

Usage examples of "regimen".

He began his treatment by putting me on a severe regimen, ordering baths, and applying mercury locally.

The mind-calming Bene Gesserit regimen his mother had taught him kept him poised, ready to expand any opportunity.

I felt that nothing could relieve me but a strict regimen, and I bore the evil patiently.

This had much to do with a lifelong iron regimen on his ergometer, the killer rowing machine used by international oarsmen the world over.

His system of medicine was based on regimen, and to make rules he had to be a man of profound science.

In a moment I was beside her, and after the severe regimen of the last eight months I spent a delicious night in her arms, for of late my pleasures had been few.

The techniques included mnemonic treatments, info implants, subliminal tutelary programs, and heuristic regimens.

In the course of nature he should have been buried ten years ago, but Tronchin kept him alive with his regimen and by feeding the wounds on slices of veal.

Several excursions were made into the Jacamar Wood and the forests of the Far West, and they brought back from thence a large collection of wild vegetables, spinach, cress, radishes, and turnips, which careful culture would soon improve, and which would temper the regimen on which the settlers had till then subsisted.

And I do confess that I think their varied ptisans and syrups are as much preferable to the mineral regimen of bug-poison and ratsbane, so long in favor on the other side of the Channel, as their art of preparing food for the table to the rude cookery of those hard-feeding and much-dosing islanders.

It may be that, for those individuals with high exposure to airborne anthrax spores, the antibiotic regimen should be extended an additional forty days, just to be on the safe side.

He would continue treating me with bleomycin, he said, but his regimen would be much more caustic than what Youman had prescribed.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine than to prevent them by regimen.

The American regimen cracked open the authoritarian structures of the old society in a manner that permitted unprecedented individual freedoms and unanticipated forms of popular expression to flourish.

This had nothing to do with either genetics or exposure to unfiltered sunlight, but was the result of regular injections and a complicated regimen of pills and lotions.