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mind  the  construction  of  a  graduate  as  a  medicine  glass  in  which 
the  lo.ver  part  was  conical  and  graduated,  and  the  upper  part  so 
constructed  as  to  facilitate  the  administration  of  the  medicine.  He 
further  said  that  we  ought  not  to  introduce  the  transposition  of 
doses,  and  that  we  ought  to  endeavor  to  carry  out  the  decimal  meas- 
ures on  graduates  independent  of  their  spoon  equivalents.  Mr. 
Meyer  said  that  he  believed  that  the  people  will  continue  to  use 
spoons  in  measuring  medicines.  Mr.  E.  M.  Boring  considered  that 
the  physician  could  control  the  subject  more  than  any  one  else  and 
could  influence  the  use  of  medicine  glasses.  Miss  Anna  C.  Ross,  P.D., 
alluded  to  some  of  the  troubles  connected  with  the  subject  in  dis- 
pensary work.  Mr.  Wilbert,  in  closing  the  subject,  said  that  in 
using  teaspoons,  metric  equivalents  were  closely  approximated.  He 
offered  the  following  resolutions,  which,  with  the  amendments  as 
finally  adopted,  are  herewith  given : 
Whereas,  it  is  desirable  to  secure  greater  accuracy  and  more  uniformity  in 
the  measuring  out  or  administration  of  doses  of  liquid  medicines. 
Therefore,  be  it  Resolved,  That  we,  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  assembled  at  this  pharmaceutical  meeting,  recommend  the  use  of 
accurately  graduated  glass  dose  measures  ;  these  measures  to  be  constructed 
so  that  the  height  of  the  contained  liquid,  at  a  spoonful  mark,  is  greater  than 
its  diameter. 
Resolved,  That  for  use  in  connection  with  spoons  as  dose  measures,  we 
recommend  the  promulgation  of  the  following  definition  taken  from  the  French 
Codex  : 
"A  spoon  is  full  when  the  liquid  it  contains  comes  up  to,  but  does  not  show  a 
curve  above,  the  upper  edge  or  rim  of  the  bowl." 
Resolved,  That  for  use  in  connection  with  the  metric  system  of  weights  and 
measures,  we  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  approximate  equiva- 
lents of  spoonfuls. 
1  teaspoonful  equals  5  c.c. 
1  dessertspoonful  equals  2  teaspoonfuls  or  10  c.c. 
1  tablespoonful  equals  3  teaspoonfuls  or  15  c.c. 
Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  the  Metric  System  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
and  the  secretaries  of  the  American  Medical  Association  and  Philadelphia 
County  Medical  Society,  for  the  purpose  of  their  consideration  and  the  securing 
of  uniform  action  on  this  subject. 
Mr.  William  Mclntyre  said  that  inasmuch  as  it  was  proposed  in 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  College,  to  provide  a  permanent  fund  for 
carrying  on  these  meetings,  he  desired  to  give  $65.00  additional 
