Weights and Measures
Anon
Genre: | Notes, Drollery |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Metrology, Morality |
Believes that apothecaries 'were formerly a very sober class of men' because by the old standard they had 'three scruples to a dram', but contemporary apothecaries have 'got over' these scruples. | |
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