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Medication vials are measured in specific dram units

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The standardized plastic bottles behind the pharmacy counter ignore modern metric volume entirely. Vials are historically sized based on the 'dram,' a highly archaic apothecary unit of measurement. It is an obscure volume standard that has stubbornly survived centuries simply because redesigning the entire packaging industry would be vastly too expensive.

Medication vials are measured in specific dram units
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