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
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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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    and that the sulphuric acid should be diluted with twice its bulk of water, and added to the morphine, until turnsol paper is no longer con¬ verted red.] MODE OF PRESCRIBING THE SALTS OF MORPHINE. As it was my desire to form officinal prepar¬ ations of the salts of morphine, which should resemble as closely as possible the most com¬ mon preparations of opium, I first made a syrup of morphine according to the following formula SYRUPUS MORPHINÆ ACETATIS. Syrup of Acetate of Morphine. Take of Perfectly clarified syrup* • 1 pound, (15 oz. 6 dr. 1 gr. troy.) Acetate of morphkie* • • • 4 grains, (gr. 3.281 troy.) Form a syrup which will supply the place of the syrup of diacodium ; and the more advantageously, as the latter preparation is, as it were, arbitrary, and therefore not uniform. The syrup of morphine is at present gene- rally used in Paris. The dose is two tea-