centigramme

“It will be remembered that the gramme weighs nearly 15-1/2 grains, and the cubic centigramme is equal to 1 gramme.”

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

“A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle.”

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

“When they get the gramme then they have decigramme, centigramme, milligramme, decagramme, hectogramme, and kilogramme.”

The British and the Metric Systems

“Well, at the end of ten days you would have taken a centigramme, at the end of twenty days, increasing another milligramme, you would have taken three hundred centigrammes; that is to say, a dose which you would support without inconvenience, and which would be very dangerous for any other person who had not taken the same precautions as yourself.”

The Count of Monte Cristo