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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![water, pressed out the decoction, and boiled the leaves again in water. The decoctions were mixed, and some sulphuric acid was 7 -1 KS- added in order to throw down the albumen and similar bodies : the solution was thus ren¬ dered thinner, and passed more readily through the filter. The decoction was next super¬ saturated with potass; by which he obtained a precipitate, weighing, after having been washed with pure water and dried, 89 grains. It con¬ sisted of small crystals, from which, by solution in acids, and precipitation by alkalies, atropine was obtained in a state of purity5. Or, atropine may be obtained by digesting the decoction of the herb of the atropa bella¬ donna with magnesia; boiling the precipitate in alcohol and filtering : the atropine crystal¬ lizes, on cooling, in needles or colourless trans¬ lucent and shining prisms0. PROPERTIES OF ATROPINE. Atropine, according to M. Brandes, is white, almost insoluble in water, and much more soluble in hot than in cold alcohol, and in- b [Ure’s Chemical Dictionary, art. Atropia.] c \_Chirnie Organique, par Leopold Gmelin : edition de Virey. p. 398.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30796568_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
