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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    72. How many cubic inches are there in one litre ? (1 litre = 2.1134 pints) ? 73. What part of a litre is a pint (to four decimal places) ? 74. How many C.c. in a cubic foot (1 C.c. being equal to 0.061028 cubic inches) ? 75. How many C.c. in a quart (1 L. = 33.815 fl. oz.) ? 76. How many pints in one cubic metre (1 decilitre being equal to 3.3815 fluid- ounces) ? 77. How many fluidrachms in a litre ? 78. How many grammes in one pound avoirdupois ? 79. How many grammes in a quart of a liquid of specific gravity 1.45 (1 gramme = 15.432 grains) ? 80. How many milligrammes in one pound troy ? 81. How many centimetres in one yard (1 mm. = .03937 inch) ? 82. What is the weight in grammes of 14 cubic centimetres of mercury, its specific gravity being 13.6? 83. What is the weight in grammes of 555 cubic centimetres of sulphuric acid of specific gravity 1.84? 83a. What is its weight in kilogrammes? (See No. 83.) 836. What is its weight in milligrammes? (See No. 83.) 84. How many metres are there in a mile (1 metre = 39.37043 inches) ? 85. How many inches in 1833 centimetres? 86. How many grains of compound extract of colocynth are required to make 144 compound cathartic pills (there being 65 grs. in 50 pills) ? 87. How much jalap is contained in one pound avoirdupois of compound powder of jalap (the ofiicial process ordering 35 parts in 100)? 88. What percentage must be added to 400 minims to bring the measure up to one fluidounce? 89. If 32.4 grammes be divided into 144 pills, what is the weight of each pill in grains ? 90. If 46.656 grammes be divided into 144 pills, what is the weight of each pill in grammes? What in grains? 91. How much valerian must be used to make 4 pints of tincture, so that each fluidrachm shall represent \0\ grains? 92. If a Seidlitz powder is composed of 35 grains of tartaric acid, 120 grains sodium bicarbonate, and 40 grains Rochelle salt, how much RochcUe salt must be used to make enough Seidlitz mixture to put up one gross of boxes of Seidlitz pow- ders, each box to contain ten doses ? 93. How much sodium bicarbonate? (See No. 92.) 94. How much tartaric acid? (See No 92.) 95. How many decilitres of oil (specific gravity .905) will a bottle hold which •weighs, when full of watpr, 10.50.5 Gm., the weight of the bottle being 610.5 Gin. ? 96. If a body weighs 2.31 kilogrammes in air and 1.76 kilogrammes in water, what is its specific gravity? 97. A piece of lead weighs 148.392 pounds, and measures 12 inches long, 6 inches •wide, and 5 inches thick (cubic in. water = 252. +gr.): what is its specific gravity? 98. A piece of zinc weighs in air 77.88 grains, in water 65.88 grains: what is its specific gravity ? 99. What is its specific volume? (See No. 98.) 100. What is the weight of a piece of iron measuring 50 cm. long, 6 cm. wide, and 2 cm. thick, its specific gravity being 7.8? 101. What is the length of a bar of iron 8 cm. wide, 5 cm. thick, its specific gravity being 7.8 and its weight 195 kilogrammes? 102. What is the weight of a piece of iron measuring 4 decimetres long by 1 deci- metre wide and 7 centimetres thick (specific gravity 7.8) ? 103. One pound av. of lead shot is put into a bottle, and it is then filled with water and found to weigh 25,566 grains (the bottle when filled with water alone weighs 19,174 gr.): what is the specific gravity of the lead? 104. What is the specific gravity of a substance of which 9.7 C.c. equal 40.74 Gm. ? 105. What is the specific gravity of a liquid of which one pound avoirdupois will measure one pint ? 106. If 52.49 C.c of a liquid weigh 1207 grains, what is its specific gravity, and what is the liquid (Oj =473.11 C.c.) ? 107. If 64.888 C.c. of a liquid weigh 1250 grains, what is its specific gravity, and what is the liquid ? 108. What is the weight in grammes of one pint of glycerin (Oj =473.11 C.c.)? 109. What is the weight in grammes of one fiuidounce of glycerin? 110. What is the weight of Oj chloroform in grammes (specific gravity 1.49) ?