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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![[ATROPINA. ATROPIA. Atropine. This substance was discovered by Brandes, in the atropa belladonnaa, and it is in this sali¬ fiable base he considers that all the medical and deleterious properties of the belladonna reside. PREPARATION OF ATROPINE. In order to obtain this principle, M. Braudes boiled two pounds of the dried leaves of the atropa belladonna in a sufficient quantity of [Ihe atropa belladonna yields on analysis the fol¬ lowing constituents : — Wax 0.7 ; resinous chlorophylle 5.84; acid malate of atropine 1.51; gum 8.03; fe- cula 1.25 ; woody fibre 13.7 ; phyteumacolle 6.9 ; a matter analogous to osmazome, with malate of atropine, oxalate, hydrochlorate, and sulphate of potass 16.05; soluble albumen 4.7; hard albumen 6; ammoniacal salts and acetates, malate of atropine, oxalate, malate, sulphate, hydrochlorate, and nitrate of potass ; oxalate, maiate ( ? ) and phosphate of lime, and malate and phos- piate of magnesia 7.47; water 25.8; loss 2.05. The ashes contain oxide of copper.—Brandes and Vauquelin.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30796568_0138.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
