The London Medical Gazette; December 27, 1828 / Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text. The etext uses the following Unicode symbols: ℞ Prescription symbol ʒ Dram ℥ Ounce ℳScruple Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example '℥iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.
The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text. The etext uses the following glyphs taken from the text images:
Prescription symbol
Dram
Ounce
Scruple Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example '
iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

BEING A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF Medicine and the Collateral Sciences.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1828.