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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 23, 345-356, Copyright © 1976 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Systems of Measurement: Their Development and Use in Medicine

JOHN L. OULTON 1

1 Department of Anaesthesia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1M9

A brief historical review of customary measurements, the resultant chaos and the desirability for a simplified unified measurement system is discussed.

The basic units of the International System of Units are described and defined, along with their application in Medicine.






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