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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    MORE TABLES OF EQUIVALENTS. A.—Relation of Metric to English Measures of Length. (i meter = 39.370432 inches.—Clarke.) Equivalents in S2 0) II Equivalents in Inches. Feet. Yards. Inches. Feet. Yards. O.OOI 0.039 433.075 36.099 12.030 O.OIO 0.394 12 472.445 39-370 13.123 O.I 00 3-937 0.328 0.109 13 51I.816 42.651 14.217 1.000 39-370 3.281 1.094 14 551.186 45.932 I5.3II 2 78.741 6.562 2.187 15 590.556 49.213 16.404 3 118.Ill 9.843 3.281 16 629.927 52.494 17.498 4 157.482 13.123 4.374 17 669.297 55.775 18.592 5 196.852 16.404 5.468 18 708.668 59.056 19.685 6 236.223 19.685 6.562 19 748.038 62.337 20.779 7 275.593 22.966 7.655 20 787.409 65.617 21.872 8 314.963 26.247 8.749 100 Z9Z1'^^Z 328.087 109.362 9 354-334 29.528 9-843 1000 3,9370.432 3280.869 1093.623 10 393-704 32.809 10.936 [The above table can also be used to ascertain the value of any article per meter, the price per inch, foot, or yard being known. To find it, let the figures in the first column, under the head of Meters, represent the known price, and the figures in the other columns the prices sought. Ex.—If the price is 2 cents per inch, find 2 in the first column, and opposite in the inch column will then be found the price per meter, viz., 783^ cents. At 2 cents per foot, the meter would cost 6.56 cents; and at 10 cents per yard the meter would cost 10.94 per yard, etc. See also footnote to Table E.]
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