Pugil

Pugil was a pharmacist's weight for dry substances and should be one drachma. It meant a handful. The measurement was taken when the exact weight was not important. The Pugil was used in the scope of the Nuremberg medicinal weight.

• 1 pugil = 1 drachma = 3 scrupels = 60 grains

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collective of authors: General and universal lexicon on all human knowledge. Volume 1, G. Pätz, Naumburg / Saale 1869, p. 126.