. The Pharmaceutical era . statedecrees more effective? Quien Sabe? is the safestanswer to most questions to these favored lands. In Bra-zil we are assured that since 1S78 the metric system Isreally adopted, and that ^enezuela and Peru are In thesame case, while Uruguay (where the decree dates fromISfM). passed a law six years ago forbidding the use of theold measures. In the Argentine Republic the old and newsystems flourish .^Ide by side. The same is true ofMexico, where the metric system is obligatory since1S95, and of San Salvador. In Central America,Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala hav
. The Pharmaceutical era . statedecrees more effective? Quien Sabe? is the safestanswer to most questions to these favored lands. In Bra-zil we are assured that since 1S78 the metric system Isreally adopted, and that ^enezuela and Peru are In thesame case, while Uruguay (where the decree dates fromISfM). passed a law six years ago forbidding the use of theold measures. In the Argentine Republic the old and newsystems flourish .^Ide by side. The same is true ofMexico, where the metric system is obligatory since1S95, and of San Salvador. In Central America,Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala have ofBciailyadopted the metre. Honduras Is still obdurate. 64 JHE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [January i8, 1900. The Pearl of tlie Antilles for weights and measures is Hayti, where the old Frenchsystem of over a century ago is still to be found in Domingo is officially metric. Nortli America,essentially Anglo-Saxon, tolerates the metric systemwithout enforcing it, both in the Unitd States and Can-ada. TUe Ttto Sketcli Maps. -which accompany this article are intended to convey twogeneral impressions, (1) the vast territories where thesystem (Which thirty years ago was practically confinedto France) is now recognized, and in many cases obliga-tory; (2) the great salierit fact that once England andthe United States decide that the system (now tolerated)shall be enforced, the whole civilized world will be should be carefully borne in mind thalt the Englishsystem has never spread except under the shelter ofthe Stars and Stripes, or the Union Jack, the only twoexceptions, we believe, are the Orange Free State andthe Transvaal; whereas the French system has penetratedwhere the tricolor is unknown. Nowadays catalogues,price lists, etc., drawn up in metric terms are compre-hensible to the commercial and educated classes in thewhole of Europe, and South America; and wherever theFrench. German and Spanish languages prevail these firm a sort of universal language fo
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