The Adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures by the U. S. Marine-Hospital Service for Purveying Medicines, and for the Other Official ... U. S. Apothecaries' Weights and Measures Into - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from The Adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures by the U. S. Marine-Hospital Service for Purveying Medicines, and for the Other Official Medical Purposes: Together With Rules for Converting Terms of U. S. Apothecaries' Weights and Measures Into Their Respective Equivalents in Terms of the Metric System; And Suggestions for Writing Metric Medical Prescriptions, Etc

Medical officers of the marine-hospital Service will hereafter, for all official medical and pharmacal purposes, make use of the Metric System of Weights and Measures. In expressing quantities by weight, the terms gramme and centigramme only will be used; and in expressing quantities by measure, the term cubic centimetre. The Metric System has already, under the act of July 28, 1866, been adopted by this Service for the purveying of medi cal supplies, and the weights and graduated meas ures, as well as the glass-ware, hereafter furnished the medical officers, will be in accordance therewith.

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