New Spoon Sizes
British chemists are worried because the Standards Institution has introduced new size teaspoons and tablespoons for use in cookery recipes. Any patient who uses the new spoons to follow a doctor’s instructions of “one teospoonful three-times a day after meals” will be taking a 66 per cent overdose of medicine. The Standards Institution has year fixed teaspoon capacity at 100 minims and tablespoons at 300 minims so that the new measures could be used with American, recipes. Now the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is co-operating with the Standards Institution to produce two hew spoons holding 60 minims and 240 minims, and stamped as “medicine spoons.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 98, 22 September 1948, Page 3
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109New Spoon Sizes Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 98, 22 September 1948, Page 3
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