Remarks on the inaccuracy and uncertainty of the present method of compounding medicines by drops; together with some hints, which may lead to greater correctness in future; read before the Liverpool Medical Society / [C. Shuttleworth].

  • Shuttleworth, C.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Remarks on the inaccuracy and uncertainty of the present method of compounding medicines by drops; together with some hints, which may lead to greater correctness in future; read before the Liverpool Medical Society / [C. Shuttleworth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the smaller size, and the same number of the larger size be given, the dose will amount to sixteen drops; or, if our intention be to order twelve of the larger drops, and the small drop be conveyed into the mixture, the dose will amount to only nine of those designed by the prescriber. Suppose four drops of this solution to be ordered for a child, the variation in the quantity of the dose, may be such as to cause, in the one case, five drops and one-third, as in the other only three to be taken by the patient, I need not remark to you, Gentlemen, that, if danger may have been occasioned to adults from such constant inaccuracy, how fatal may have been the consequences that have arisen to younger patients. I therefore appeal to you, whether we ought not immediately to abandon a custom