Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis.

  • Edward Curtis
Date:
1895
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Credit: Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis. 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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    macist, then, cuts up a pill-mass weighing 18.00 grammes.. Let us order, now, a pill-mass of but tiDo-thirds this weight, to be divided into the same sixty pills, and we shall have the dimin- ished pill we seek. Such quantity will be, metri- cally, 13.00 grammes, each pill then weighing 0 30 instead of the original 0.30 gramme. For estimating by apothecaries' weight, we must cal- culate backward, so to speak, from the standard metric quantities of the Pharmacopoeia. Twelve grammes is, roughly, three drachms, which quantity, divided into sixty pills, gives about three grains to each pill. We prescribe, then : Example VI.— For Miss U. V. [ApotJiecaries System: QOpills @ gr. iij ] 5. Pilularum Ferri Carbonatis 3 iij. In pilulas no. Ix. dividendas. [Metric System: eOpills @ 0.20 Gm.] Fp. Pilularum Ferri Carbonatis ... 12.00 Gm. In pilulas no, Ix. dividenda. S.— Two pills, thrice daily. W. X., M.D., No. 6, Sixth Street. Office-Hours : 3 to 5 p.m. August 29, 1894.