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

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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E.- -Relation 0/ Metric to Apothecaries' JVe? o-/ltS —Continued. 80 gms. = 1,234.588 grs. 800 gms. = 12,345-879 grs 90 (( = 1,388.911 a 900 it = 13,889.114 it 100 (( = 1,543.235 a 1,000 it = 15,432.35 it 125 u = 1,929.044 a 1,500 it = 23,148.52 ti 150 u == 2,314.852 ti 2,000 it = 30,864.70 it 200 u = 3,086.470 li 2,500 it == 38,580.87 ti 250 (i = 3,858.087 a 3,000 ti = 46,297.05 it 300 a = 4,629.705 n 3,500 ti = 54,013.22 it 333 a = 5,144.118 n 4,000 it == 61,729.40 ti 350 (( • 5,401.322 a 4,500 it = 69,445 57 it 400 (< = 6,172.940 a 5,000 ti z= 77,161.74 ti 450 u = 6,944.557 (i 10,000 it = 154,432.35 ti 500 (( = 7,716.174 ti 20,000 ti = 308,646.97 it 600 n = 9,259.409 ti 25,000 ti = 385,808.72 it 700 it = 10,802.644 a 50,000 it = 771,617.44 it 750 a = 11,574.262 ti 100,000 it = 1543,234.87 it [This table also shows the price per Gram of any article the price of which is known by the grain; assuming«the price per grain to be represented by the figures in the first column, the price per gram is rep- resented by the figures opposite in the next column.] F.—Relation of Apothecaries' to Metric Weights. (i troy-grain = 0.06479895 + gram.) ■ij troy-grain = O.OOIOI + gm. 1 To troy-grain = 0.00648 — gm ^V — 0.00108 — H (( = 0.00810 — 3V ;' = 0.00130 — /6 it = 0.01080 — iV = 0.00135 — i tt = 0.01296 — ?S = 0.00162 — % ti = 0.01620 — ik = 0.00180 — K it — 0.02160 — A = 0.00202 + y^ tt = 0.03240 — tV := 0.00216 — u it = 0.04860 — jV = 0.00259 + I tt = 0.06480 — A = 0.00270 — ^y it = 0.09720 — ^V = 0.00324 — 2 it = 0.12960 — tV = 0.00360 — ^Vz tt = 0.16200 — tV = 0.00405 — 3 it = 0.19440 — tV = 0.00432 — 4 tt = 0.25920 — tV = 0,00540 — 5 tt = 0.32399 +

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