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 / by 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 / by C. Shuttleworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    mimlx'r of divisions be completed which ajiy one ma} require. The reason wlij I prefer water to spirit, as a standard by winch to graduate the scale, is, that the cjuick evaporation of spirit, during the above-mentioned experi- ments, was found to b(‘ a source of greater mistakes than at first would have been im- agined. For aqueous fluids, the subdivisions of Mr. Lane’s measure arc tolerably exact. Should a m-aduated measure for v,ine be o thought necessary, it may easily be formed. For as sixty drops of water are equal to cighty-fonr of wine, let eighty-four be taken as a standard, and cill the intermediate degrees may be easily adjusted. Thus, Gentlemen, I have, according to my promise, laid l3cforc you the remarks
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