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Playwright and short-story genius Anton Chekhov could hypodermically inject an item so iconographic, so reverberant with meaning, that its presence almost recounts a whole character.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015

It is not expected to supplant insulin, however, for the two treatments proceed from different principles, insulin being injectel hypodermically to reduce the blood sugar, and intarvin being fed by mouth to prevent acidosis.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was curious that 24 hours later convulsions ensued again not so acute, and I treat this with a 0.20 gramme of sodium amytal diluted and injected hypodermically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curare injected hypodermically overcomes the spasms, but does not usually, if ever, retard death.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In extensive outbreaks I have had the best results with the administration thrice daily of carbolic acid, nitro-muriatic acid, or bichromate of potassium, and hypodermically of iodide of potassium and sulphate of quinia.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various