drachm's Usage Examples:

24 the temple tax of half a shekel is called a didrachm (2 drams).

From Phoenicia this naturally became the main Punic unit; a bronze weight from Iol (18), marked 100, gives a drachma of 56 or 57 (224-228); and a Punic inscription (18) names 28 drachmae 25 Attic, and therefore 57 to 59 grains (228-236); while a probably later series of 8 marble disks from Carthage (44) show 208, but vary from 197 to 234.

The dose is from a drachm to an ounce.

3, the so-called Phocaean drachma, equal in silver value to the 1/60 of the gold 258 grains.

The 80-grain system, as we have seen, was probably formed by binarily dividing the 10 shekels, or "stone"; and it had a talent (Abydus lion) of 5000 drachmae; this is practically identical with the talent of 6000 Attic drachmae.

6 at the earliest (17) (though modified to double Attic, or 133, later) and being divided by 3, and not into 2 drachms.

For this purpose it is very largely used either as a suppository or in the fluid form (one or two drachms).

Thus foot, digit, palm, cubit, stadium, mile, talent, mina, stater, drachm, obol, pound, ounce, grain, metretes, medimrius, modius, hin and many others mean nothing exact unless qualified by the name of their country or city.

The usual dose, at starting, is one or two drachms, but the oil should be given eventually in the largest quantities that the patient can tolerate.

, but in a reduced form, in which it equalled only 138 Attic drachmae, or 9200.

At the same time the Greek drachma joined the ERM.

Then the "Alexandrian mina" of Dioscorides and Galen (2) is 20 unciae 8250; in the "Analecta" (2) it is 150 or 158 drachmae 8100.

of strychnine in each fluid drachm.

Synonyms:

apothecaries" ounce, apothecaries" unit, apothecaries" weight, drachma, scruple, troy ounce, ounce, dram,

Antonyms:

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