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.
147/174 page 127
![- [PÎCROTOXINA, PICRQTOXÏÂ, PICROTOXA. Picrotoxine. This substance, which was discovered by Boullay, is the bitter and poisonous principle of the cocculus indiens, the fruit of the meni- spermum cocculus a. PREPARATION OF PICROTOXINE. In order to obtain the picrotoxine the berries are boiled in water, and the solution evapo¬ rated to the consistence of an extract ; it is then digested in the heat with ^th of its weight of barytes, or pure magnesia : this compound is exhausted with hot absolute alco¬ hol, the alcoholic solution evaporated to dry¬ ness ; the residuum redissolved in alcohol, and a [The fruit of the menispermum cocculus Yields, on analysis — 1. Fixed oil; 2. Adipocire; 3. Yellow extrac¬ tive colouring matter; 4. Picrotoxine ; 5. Woody fibre: 6. Albumen ; 7. Menispermic acid. The ashes contain sulphate and hydrochlorate of potass, phosphate of lime; silica, and iron.]—Boullay.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30796568_0147.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
