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heccubusiv · 02-08-2004, 06:41 PM

I am taking a pharmacy calc class and am wondering if anyone still uses drams or grains today or if the conversions from scruples to apothecary pounds are worth while to remeber after this class is over

losthellhound · 02-16-2004, 06:08 AM

Anything Ive ever seen in my friend's textbooks is in CCs. I've never even seen a passing mention of scruples or grains..

VitaminH · 02-16-2004, 09:16 AM

Being in pharmacy school, I was forced to learn these. I have worked as an intern in a pharmacy for over 2 years now and in that time I have seen ONE prescription written in other than the international system. It was for a "5 grain" asparin, which is just the standard 325 mg dose. They also taught us in school that although we need to learn it, it's all pretty much obsolete.

Honestly, I've already forgotten it

Redlemon · 02-16-2004, 10:01 AM

Grains are still used in environmental engineering/air pollution, when measuring particulate emissions. Many regulations specify particulate matter emisison limits in terms of "grains per dry standard cubic foot".

VitaminH · 02-17-2004, 09:00 AM

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Originally posted by redlemon
Grains are still used in environmental engineering/air pollution, when measuring particulate emissions. Many regulations specify particulate matter emisison limits in terms of "grains per dry standard cubic foot".

Really? That suprises me I would have thought that the EPA and all that would have switched over to the SI system by now. Surely other countries that use the metric system don't use those units?

mr sticky · 02-20-2004, 01:41 PM

Hec, I work in the hospital setting (in the US) and can assure you that you can forget all about drams, grains and scruples!

I, like the VitaminH, have only seen grain used once...also for ASA.

02-08-2004, 06:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
heccubusiv #1 Irish Fan Location: The Burgh	pharmacy questions I am taking a pharmacy calc class and am wondering if anyone still uses drams or grains today or if the conversions from scruples to apothecary pounds are worth while to remeber after this class is over __________________ Fuck Ohio

02-16-2004, 06:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
losthellhound Thats MR. Muffin Face now Location: Everywhere work sends me	Anything Ive ever seen in my friend's textbooks is in CCs. I've never even seen a passing mention of scruples or grains.. __________________ "Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?" -- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

02-16-2004, 09:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
VitaminH An embarrassment to myself and those around me... Location: Pants	Being in pharmacy school, I was forced to learn these. I have worked as an intern in a pharmacy for over 2 years now and in that time I have seen ONE prescription written in other than the international system. It was for a "5 grain" asparin, which is just the standard 325 mg dose. They also taught us in school that although we need to learn it, it's all pretty much obsolete. Honestly, I've already forgotten it __________________ "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte

02-16-2004, 10:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	Grains are still used in environmental engineering/air pollution, when measuring particulate emissions. Many regulations specify particulate matter emisison limits in terms of "grains per dry standard cubic foot". __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

02-20-2004, 01:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
mr sticky Psycho Location: NC	Hec, I work in the hospital setting (in the US) and can assure you that you can forget all about drams, grains and scruples! I, like the VitaminH, have only seen grain used once...also for ASA. __________________ The sad thing is... as you get older you come to realize that you don't so much pilot your life, as you just try to hold on, in a screaming, defiant ball of white-knuckle anxious fury