The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1872
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Other Foreign Weights and Measures. 1.—Medicinal pounds of 12 ounces, in English grains. (From Jourdan’s ‘Pharmacopee Universelle.’) The following are divided as our Apothecaries’ weight. The pound of Austria weighs 6482-42 grains; Bavaria, 555624; Holland, 5787’75; Lubec, 5697'09; Nuremberg (German pound), 552296; Poland, 553325; Prussia, 5113-99; Sweden, 5498-01; Venice (Sottile), 4649*17. The division of the following differs in the scruple being divided into 24 grains. Bologna, 5026'32; Lucca, 5162*67; Modena, 5254-61; Parma, 5062-35; Portugal, 5312-23; Rome, 5233-25; Spain, 5325-84; Tuscany, 5240-49; Piedmont [Turin], 5123-49. The Naples pound contains 549063 Troy grains; the ounce is divided into 10 drachms; the scruple into 20 grains. 2.—Various Foreign Weights. The old Pai-is pound was divided into 16 ounces; the scruple into 24 grains. Its weight has been given above. The pound by which drugs are weighed in Turkey is the Tcliegy, equal to 4957 English grains, and is divided into 100 drachms, each drachm into 16 killos, and each killo into 4 grains. The oholo is half a Spanish scruple ; 3 silicua make 1 oholo, and 4 grains a silicua. A loth, in Germany, Poland, &c., is half an ounce. The commercial pound in several countries differs from the pharmaceutical. The civil pound of Bavaria and mark of Vienna are each about 19| avoirdupois ounces. That of Holland is the French kilogramme, or 12 grains more than 2 lb 34 oz. avoirdupois. The mark is half a kilogramme. The Coburg commercial pound is nearly 18 oz. avoirdupois.