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Originally Posted by keith5  Many Thanks,
Managed to order the triangles from the NPA, good value too.
Keith  |
Got a triangle and a capsule counter as a gift when I first qualified.
Made by Cripps and Brown from stainless steel, if you can find them on the internet.
The counter works on the principle that the total is the sum of the number of rows eg, 10 rows is 10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 55.
If you remember that, then 11 rows, just add 11 to 55 = 66 and so on.
The perspex box thing with trays with holes cut out was called a "Tumatic Counter". I found them great for getting tablets everywhere but in the dispensing container. Once you got used to a triangle you could count tablets quickly, and to clean it a wipe with a tissue did the job in seconds. I've seen some "Tumatics" that were really caked with residue - red deltacortril used to come out white! No good for Euhypnos either, as the pre-gel type always used to leak - Farmitalia for you. Normison on the other hand hardly every leaked.
There you go - you've got me reminiscing. Can I interest you in a copy of my memoirs, "The prescriptions I have dispensed" and other stories.
The capsule counter is a corrugated piece of stainless mounted in a walled tray also of stainless. There are 10 corrugations, so you just count the rows of capsules.