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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![the retort : the tubulure closed, und the whole left at rest for twelve hours : the globular re¬ ceiver being surrounded with ice, and the neck of the retort constantly cooled with wet cloths : the materials are afterwards heated, and the heat kept up until the striæ which are observed in the neck of the retort during the operation become more rare, and until a blue matter is ready to pass into the receiver. The fire is then to be removed : the whole allowed to cool, and the contents poured into a proper vessel. According to M. Pessina, the hydrocyanic acid thus obtained has a strong and penetrating odour. Its s. g. is from 0.898 to 0.900 at the temperature of 13° or 14° Reaumur, (62° or 64° Fah.), and it possesses every property of the pure prussic acid.c.] ACTION ON ANIMALS. One drop of pure prussic acid placed in the throat of the most vigorous dog makes it fall stone dead, after two or three deep and hurried inspirations. The effects of placing a small quantity of the acid in the eye are similar and almost as sudden. c \Giorn. di Fisica, August, 1822 ; and Journal de Pharmacie, 1823, p. 16.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30796568_0126.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
