The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing official, unofficial, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / [Joseph Price Remington].

  • Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing official, unofficial, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / [Joseph Price Remington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND EXERCISES (CHAPTER I.—METROLOGY) ILLUSTKATING THE USES OP WEIGHTS, MEASUEES, SPECIFIC GRAVITY, AND SPECIFIC VOLUME. (The answers to these questions will be found in the Appendix.) 1. If Dover's powder contains one grain of powdered ipecac, one grain of pow- dered opium, and eight grains of powdered sugar of milk, how much of each ingre- dient will be needed to make one pound (av.) ? 2. What is the percentage of each ingredient in Dover's powder? 3. Add the fallowing together, giving the answer in grains: ^iv, 9ij, gvi, 2 oz. 4. Subtract ^^^x from 10 oz. 5. How much postage would be required to send this book, weighing 4 lb. 3 oz., to Brazil, the rate being one cent for each 2 oz. or fraction ? 6. How many fluidounces are there in a wine gallon ? 7. How many minims are there in a pint? 8. In an Imperial pint? 9. How many grains are there in 4 oz. of water? 10. In f5iv? 11. In ■^xvl 12. How many wine gallons are there in 40 Imperial gallons? 13. How many avoirdupois pounds in 5 wine gallons of water? 14. How many fluidrachms in an Imperial half-pint of water? 15. A physician ordered, as an application to a burn, 4 tablespoonfuls of linseed oil to be mixed with a teacupful of lime-water: what are the equivalent quantities in apothecaries' measure ? 16. A traveller was ordered by his physician to take with him on a journey enough of a quinine mixture to last five weeks, taking one teaspoonful three times a day for the first week, one twice a day for the second week, one once a day for the third week, one four times during the fourth week, and one twice during the fifth week : how many fluidounces of the mixture must the apothecary compound for him ? 17. A physician wants a pharmacist to make him one fluidounceof a one-per-cent. aqueous solution of cocaine h\'drochlorate: how will he do it? 18. How much quinine, strychnine, and ferric phosphate would be required to make a pint of elixir of iron, quinine, and strychnine, so that each teaspoonful of finished elixir should contain of a grain of strychnine, one grain of quinine, and two grains of ferric phosphate? 19. What would an Imperial gallon of rose-water cost at the rate of 12 cents a pound (av.) ? 20. A merchant offered to exchange 2 oz. of musk, valued at 4 cents per grain, for 20 Imperial gallons of orange-flower water, valued at 17 cents per pound : how much would he gain or lose? 21. Express the following: 7.5 metres in millimetres. 22. 806.23 centimetres in metres. 23. Six metres and three decimetres. 24. Twelve metres, five decimetres, four centimetres, and three millimetres. 25. Twelve thousand five hundred and forty-three millimetres. 26. Write one metre and one millimetre. 27. Read 25 Dm. 28. Read 25 dm. 29. Is the equivalent number of centimetres usually read in practice instead of using the term decimetres? 30. Read 1.2 M. 31. How does this practice resemble that in daily use in relation to our decimal system of coinage? (See No. 30.) 32. Read 4263.678 M. 33. Add 816 cm., 732 dm., and 36 mm. 34. What is the difference in length between two roots, one being 5 cm. long, the other 65 mm. long ?