Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix.
- Jonathan Pereira
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![RELATION OF THE METRICAL WEIGHTS TO THE WEIGHTS OF THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA. = 0-015432 grs. = 0-15432 „ = 1-5432 = 15-432 = 2 lbs. 3 oz. 119-8 grs. or 15432-348 1 Milligramme 1 Centigramme 1 Decigramme 1 Gramme 1 Kilogramme RELATION OF THE METRICAL MEASURES TO THE MEASURES OF THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA. = 0-03937 inches = 0-39371 „ = 3-93708 „ = 39-37079 „ or 1 yard 37 inches 1 Millimetre 1 Centimetre 1 Decimetre 1 Metre 1 Cubic centimetre = 15*432 grain-measures 1 Litre = 1 pint 15 oz. 2 drs. 11 m. or 15432*348 grain-measures.] The following tables, which have been published in Miller's Elements of Chemistry, afford ready means of converting measures of either of the two foregoing systems into those of the other system. For Conversion of Metrical into English Measures. A. Length. Metrical to English. English to Metrical. 1. Millimetres to Inches. 2. Metres to feet. 3. Inches to Millimetres. 4. Feet to Metres. 1 - 0-03937 1 - 3-2809 1 = 25-4 I 1 - 0-3048 2 = 0-07874 2 = 6-5618 2 = 50-8 2 = 0-6096 3 = 0-11811 3 = 9-8427 3 = 76-2 3 = 0-9144 4 = 0-15748 4 = 13-1236 4 = 101-6 4 = 1-2192 5 = 0-19685 5 = 16-4045 5 = 127-0 5 = 1-5240 6 - 0-23622 6 = 19-6854 6 m 152-4 6 « 1-8288 7 = 0-27559 7 = 22-9663 7 = 177-8 7 = 2-1336 8 = 0-31496 8 = 26-2472 i 8 = 203-2 8 = 2-4384 9 = 0-35433 9 = 29-5281 * 9 = 228-6 9 = 2-7432 25mm- = nearly 1 4 inches = rather inch. more than lO0111-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20392357_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)