The metric system in medicine : containing an account of the metric system of weights and measures, Americanized and simplified, a comprehensive dose table, and three hundred practical illustrations of metric prescription writing, selected from recipes in actual use in hospital and out-door practice / by Oscar Oldberg.

  • Oscar Oldberg
Date:
1881
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Credit: The metric system in medicine : containing an account of the metric system of weights and measures, Americanized and simplified, a comprehensive dose table, and three hundred practical illustrations of metric prescription writing, selected from recipes in actual use in hospital and out-door practice / by Oscar Oldberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Apothecaries' Weights (and Measures). Metric Weights (and Measures.) Troy-grains {or Minims), Grams {or Fluigrams), ^% o.ioo [10 cents, or y^^-] 2 0-133 [i3>4 cents, or y^^] 3 0.200 [20 cents, or 4] 5 6 10 15 ^'2>33 hzV^ cents, or yz] 0.400 [40 cents, or -|] 0.666 [66yz cents, or ^] 1.000 [i Gm.] 20 '^•2>2>?> l^ys Gm.] 30 2.000 [2 Gm.] Drachvts {or Fiuidrachms), I 2 Grams {or Fiuigrams), 4 8 16 24 1 roy'OU7ices {or Fluidounces). I 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 12 16 20 Grams {or Fluigrams) 60 90 120 180 240 300 360 480 600