Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire."
- François Magendie
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire.". Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![liquors yielded, on evaporation, a pulverulent substance, which was extremely acrid, and possessed all the properties of the alkalies. This substance was at first yellowish ; but, by solutions in alcohol, and subsequent precipi¬ tations, caused by pouring water into the alcoholic solutions, it was obtained in the form of a very white and perfectly inodorous powder. [M. M eissner, who discovered the veratrine nearly at the same time as MM. Pelletier and Caventou, recommends the seeds of the ceva- Ailla to be treated with absolute alcohol, the alcoholic infusion evaporated, the residuum treated with water, the liquor filtered, and the veratrine to be precipitated by the carbonate of potass : it then only remains to wash the precipitate with waterd.] CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF VERATRINE. Veratrine is scarcely at all soluble in cold water ; boiling water, however, dissolves of its weight, and becomes sensibly acrid. It is very soluble in ether, and still more so in alcohol. It is insoluble in the alkalies, and d [Chimie Organique de Gmelin. P. 400.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30796568_0114.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
