Fascicle (unit)

Fascicle , also in Latin. Spelling facicle , was a pharmacist's weight for dry substances and should be one ounce . The measurement was taken when the exact weight was not important. The facicle was used in the scope of the Nuremberg medical weight.

• 1 fascicle = 1 ounce

literature

• Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present or the latest encyclopedic dictionary . Volume 1, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1857, p. 616.