Sactos

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Sactos was a small Arabic measure of weight used by doctors and pharmacists (medical and pharmacist weight).

1 Sactos = 1 ounce = 2 lots (14.175 grams assumed) = 28.35 grams

literature

Johann Georg Krünitz, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: Economic Encyclopedia or General System of Agriculture, Housekeeping and State Economy. Volume 129, Verlag Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1821, p. 484.