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close this bookWhere There Is No Doctor - A Village Health Care Handbook (Hesperian Foundation, 1993, 516 p.)
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Open this folder and view contentsWORDS TO THE VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER (Brown Pages)
Open this folder and view contentsChapter 1 - HOME CURES AND POPULAR BELIEFS
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Open this folder and view contentsTHE GREEN PAGES - The Uses, Dosage, and Precautions for the Medicines Referred to in This Book
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View the documentVOCABULARY - Explaining Difficult Words
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View the documentABBREVIATIONS - WEIGHT - VOLUME
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ABBREVIATIONS - WEIGHT - VOLUME

ABBREVIATIONS (A shorter way of writing a longer word; a few letters mean the whole word)

+ means and or plus

= means the same as, or is equal to


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% = percent

WEIGHT (how heavy something is)

16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (lb.)
1 pound = 454 grams (gm.)
1000 grams = 1 kilogram (kilo, kg.)
1 kilo = 2 1/5 pounds
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 gram = 1000 mg.
1 grain (gr.) = 65 mg.


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VOLUME (how much space or bulk something has; for measuring liquids)

1000 milliliters (ml.) = 1 liter




1 milliliter = 1 cubic centimeter (cc.)

3 teaspoons (tsp.) = 1 Tablespoon (Tbs.)

3 tsp. = 1 Tbs.



1 teaspoon = 5 milliliters




1 Tablespoon = 15 milliliters




30 milliliters = about 1 ounce (of water)

30 ml.

is about

1 ounce

8 ounces = 1 cup




32 ounces = 1 quart (qt.)




1 quart = 0.95 liters (l.)




1 liter = 1.06 quarts

is just a little more than

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