Unit     British Units            U.S.  Units        Metric Units
minim   1/20 of a scruple                           0.0592 milliliters
pint    1/2 quart                  1.201 pints      0.5683 liter
quart     2 pints or 1/4 gallon    1.201 quarts     1.137 liters
gallon    8 pints or 4 quarts      1.201 gallons    4.546 liters

British Dry Volume or Capacity

Unit   British Units   U.S.  Units       Metric Units
peck    1/4 bushel    1.0314 pecks       9.087 liters
bushel    4 pecks     1.0320 bushels    36.369 liters

Apothecary Weights

Unit     Apothecary Units               U.S.  Units      Metric Units
grain    160 dram or 1/5760 pound       1 grain          64.799 milligrams
dram      60 grains or 1/8 ounce        2.1943 drams      3.8879 grams
ounce      8 drams                      1.0971 ounces    31.1035 grams
pound     12 ounces or 96 drams         0.8232 pound    373.242 grams

[End Transcriber’s Notes]

Mother’s’ remedies
Over One Thousand
Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of
the United States and Canada.

Also
Symptoms, Causes, Prevention, Diet, Nursing,
Treatments, Etc., of Every Known Disease. 
Poisons, Accidents, Medicinal Herbs and
Special Departments on Women, Children and
Infants,

by
Dr. T. J. Ritter
Formerly connected with Medical Faculty of
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Revised with introduction
by
Dr. W. E. Ziegenfuss

Published by
G.H.  Foote pub.  Co. 
Detroit
Mich
1921

Copyright, 1910
by
G. H. Foote publishing co. 
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1915
by
G. H. Foote publishing co. 
All rights reserved

Riverside printing company
port Huron
Michigan

Preface. [iii]

Medicine is not an exact science, and it is reasonable to presume that even Time, with all its qualifying influences, will fail in its effects on this one branch of science.  As the millions of faces seem each to present some differentiating feature, so each human system seems to require special study of its individual temperament.

So physicians find it necessary to have more than one remedy for a given ill; they still find truth in the old adage, “What is one man’s meat is another’s poison.”  But Mother finds a variety of remedies necessary for another reason.  Her medicine-chest is usually lacking the full quota of drugs required to meet the many emergencies, and she must turn to the “remedy at hand.”

Necessity has again proved its influence and with the years thousands of simple home concoctions have found their way to the relief of the daily demands on Mother’s ingenuity.  These mothers’ remedies have become a valuable asset to the raising of a family, and have become a recognized essential in a Mother’s general equipment for home-making.