TABLE OF AVEKAGE DOSES, AS GIVEN BY THE U. S. 
PHARMACOPCEIA, EIGHTH DECENNIAL REVISION. 
The Pharmacopoeial Convention of 1900 instructed the Committee of 
Revision ‘‘to state the average approximate (but neither a maximum 
nor a minimum) dose for adults, * * * the metric system to be 
used, and the approximate equivalent ordinal*}’ weights or measures 
inserted in parentheses,’’ and the Committee was further directed to 
make the following distinct declaration: “That neither this Conven- 
tion, nor the Committee of Revision created by it, intends to have 
these doses regarded as obligatory on the ph}’sician or as forbidding 
him to exceed them whenever in his judgment this seems advisable.” 
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