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And public-health departments' ability to identify threats has been bolstered by boluses of federal money after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and subsequent anthrax attacks, and in the 2009 stimulus package.

From Nature • Jul. 24, 2013

The Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental.

From Time Magazine Archive

Quidding consists in dropping from the mouth well-chewed and insalivated boluses of feed.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Give her half-grain or whole-grain doses, made into little boluses with breadcrumbs—which any chemist can make for you—twice a day.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon

If in two days he is no better, take sixteen grains Antimonial Powder, made into four boluses; one night and morning for two days.

From The Dog by Dinks