The practitioner's ready reference book : a handy guide in office and bedside practice / by Richard J. Dunglison.

  • Richard J. Dunglison
Date:
1883
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Credit: The practitioner's ready reference book : a handy guide in office and bedside practice / by Richard J. Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    weights of the denomination of grammes. The decimal system is now employed almost to the exclusion of others iu science, and the United States Coast Survey has adopted it in its work. As all the Ibrmul^e published in Conti- nental journals are based on the, metric system, the fol- lowing tables will prove of value to those who may Lave occasion to use the processes of their foreign associates. In order to express the decimal proportions, the follow- ing prefixes are used:— Subdivision. .rMilli (from Millesimus), meaning 0 ihousandth. Latin ^ Centi ( Centesimus), a hundredth. 'Oeci ( Deoimus) a tenth. Muliiples. f Deca, . Ten. Gr ek ] '^^ hundred. j Kilo, . One thousand. 1^ Myria, . Ten thousand. It may assist the memory to observe that the terms for multiplying are Greek, and those for dividing, Latin. Pleasures of Lenyth, One Myriametre = 10,000 Metres. One Kilometre = 1,000 Metres. One Hectometre = 100 Motr(;s. One Decametre = 10 Metres. One METRE' = the fen millionth part of a quarter of the meri- dian of tlie earth. One Decimetre = the tenth part of one Metre, or 0.1 Metre. One Centimetre = the hundredth part of one Metre, or 0.01 Metre. One Millimetre = the tliousandtli part of one Metre, or 0.001 Metre.
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