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Applications for Poison Ivy
Various applications have been used for the same purpose; bathing the parts with a decoction of hemlock boughs, or of oak leaves; or with a table-spoonful of copperas (sulphate of iron) in a small tea-cupful of boiling water; or painting over with fresh lime-water; or 5925. To Extract the Poison from a rubbing wet salt on the poisoned part; or Rattlesnake Bite. The most direct and bathing the parts affected freely with spirit of efficient means of counteracting the absorp- nitre. If the blisters be broken, so as to tion of the poison is suction, and this is most allow the nitre to penetrate, more than a sinpenetrate, more than a sineffectually done by exhausting a cupping-gle application is rarely necessary. It will glass over the wound. The cupping-glass scarcely be possible to fail in finding, in one must be applied as soon after the injury as or other of the remedies here given, a means possible, and kept exhausted until all danger of cure suited to the party affected.
Tables of Weights, Mea- Ton. Cut sures, &c. sures, &c. The following tables Oz.
Dr.
Qrs. Lbs. = 2,240 = 35,840 =: 573,440 1,792 28,672 20 = 80 1 = 4 = 1 = 112 = 28 = have been compiled for the purpose of aiding the reader to determine with facility, the relative values of different weights and measures; and to furnish in a convenient group a 5936. = 448 = 7,168 1 = 16 = 1 = 256 16 mass of valuable information that would otherwise have to be sought for in a number Avoirdupois. Equivalents of Avoirdupois in Troy Weight.
Lbs. Oz.
Dwt. Grains. of volumes not easy of access. Most of the 1 Ton 2922 2 13 8 tables have been made expressly for this work, and all of them have been carefully recalculated, revised, and corrected by a com- 1 Cwt. 146 1 6 16 1 Qr. 34 0 6 16 1 Lb. = 1 2 11 16 petent mathematician. 1 Oz. 18 5호 used. The ton is subdivided into hundredfor which Troy or Apothecaries weight are 5935. Avoirdupois Weight is employed for weighing all goods, except those 5937. Value of Avoirdupois Weight 1 Dr. 1 33號 32 in Apothecaries Measure. drachms. (Sce No. 6031.) Some goods are weights, quarters, pounds, ounces, and 53 53 m 1 pound = 15 2 53.3622 pounds; a ton composed of 20 hundreds instead of the hundred-weight (cwt.) of 112 sold by the hundred-weight of 100 pounds, 5938. Value of Avoirdupois in Apo- 1 ounce = 7 40.8351 thecaries Weight.
Avoirdupois. would then contain only 2000 pounds. The Apothecaries. 27.34375 Troy grains. The standard avoirdupois pound of the United States is the weight pound avoirdupois consists of 7000 Troy grains. The drachm avoirdupois is therefore lb 3 3 Э 1 pound = 1 2 4 2 1 ounce 7 0 Gr. 0 174 1 drachm = 1 73호 of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water, at are expressed in pounds, ounces, and grains 39.83º Fahr., the barometer being at 30 inches. avoirdupois. (See No. 6031.) In the new British Pharmacopœia the weights