De invoering van het metrieke stelsel in de Nederlandse geneeskunde tussen 1820 en 1880

The introduction of the metric system in Dutch medicine 1820-1880 The Netherlands went metric in 1820 and the medical sciences were supposed to follow suit, except for apothecaries weight, which was very close to the Anglo-Saxon variant and was not abolished before 1870. Doctors and pharmacists had opposed metric weights in pharmacy in 1820 because they were afraid of errors that could lead to loss of life. On the continent old local and Paris units were used in general medical science. It took many decades for the metric system to become predominant in trade and daily life. The same slow acce... Mehr ...