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℈
- (chiefly pharmacy) The symbol for scruple (unit of measure equal to twenty grains or 1.2959782 g).
1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. (in English), London: Thomas Vautroullier , →OCLC, book VI, page 288:BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.
- ℥ (“apothecary ounce”)
- ʒ, ℨ (“dram or drachm”)
