A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines : the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Griffith, R. Eglesfeld (Robert Eglesfeld), 1798-1850.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines : the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. 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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    The value of these various pounds iu grauimos is thus calculated by Jour- dain:— The pound of 5760 grains. Venice = Prussia = Sweden = ]S'uremberg = Poland = Bavaria = Lubeek = United States and Great ~(^ Britain j ~ Holland = Austria =; The pound of 6400 grains. Turkey = The pound of 6912 grains. Coni = Monticelli = G-rammes. 301.230 350.761 356.227 357.843 358.510 360.000 369.126 373.202 375.000 420.009 321.317 307.370 307.370 Grammes. Piacenza =: 317.577 Bologna = 325.665 Soragna = 325.800 Parma z= 328.000 Corte = 330.400 Turin ^331.961 Lucca = 334.500 Rome =339.073 Tuscany = 339.542 Modena = 340.457 Portugal = 344.190 Spain =345.072 The pound of 7200 grains. Naples = 320.230 The pound of 9216 grains. France =489.503 The following tables are taken, slightly modified, from the United States Pharmacopoeia; they will be found useful for converting the apothecaries' and metrical weights one into the other. Relation of Weights op the U. S. Pharmacopceia to Metrical Weights. Grain. Milligrammes. Grains. G-rammes. Apothecaries' w't. Grammes. 1 'Si —■ 1.012 1 = 0.0648 5i — 3.887 1 1.079 IJ = 0.1295 5ij := 7.775 1 1.295 ly = 0.1943 5iij =: 11.663 1 ?5 1.349 IV = 0.2591 5iv = 15.550 4V = 1.619 Y = 0.3239 5v = 19.438 1 5^ 1.799 VI = 0.3887 5vi = 23.325 ^V = 2.025 VIJ = 0.4535 3vij = 27.213 1 2.159 VllJ = 0.5183 §i = 31.100 I 2.591 IX = 0.5831 §ij 62.200 1 5? 2.699 X = 0.6479 Iiij = 93.300 V\ = 3.239 XIJ = 0.7775 |iv = 124.401 tV = 4.049 XV = 0.9718 §v = 155.501 T5 = 4.319 xvi = 1.036 Ivi r= 186.601 T _ 5.399 xviij = 1.166 ivij = 217.701 1 6.479 XX = 1.295 Iviij = 248.801 F = 8.098 xxiv = 1.555 Jix = 279.902 L = 10.798 XXV = 1.619 Ix = 311.002 1 ,^- 12.958 XXX = 1.943 |xi = 342.102 i = 16.197 xl = 2.591 ft)i = 373.202 1. = 21.597 1 = 3.239 ibij r= 746.404 1 — 2 32.395 Ix = 3.887 ibiij = 1119.606