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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    spoonfuls {cuillerée à café)q every three hours. Sleep, however, is often produced by a much smaller quantity—by two tea-spoonfuls, for example, given at bed-time in a little water. SYRUPUS MORPHINÆ SULPHATIS. Syrup of Sulphate of Morphine. Take of Perfectly clarified syrup • 1 pound, (15 oz. 6 dr. 1 gr. troy.) Sulphate of morphine • • 4 grains, (gr. 3.28 troy.) Form a syrup. The dose is the same as that of the syrup of acetate of morphine. I employ this syrup when patients have become accustomed to the action of the syrup of the acetate : for, generally speaking, by varying the salts of alkaline medicines, their action on the animal economy may be kept up for a very long time, and without increasing the dose too considerablyr. q [In the first edition the cuiller ce à cafe was incor¬ rectly rendered, Anglicb, “ a tea-spoonful f whereas its capacity is two drams, French ; or, at least, two tea-spoons¬ ful, English.] r Some English writers have denied the truth of this obseivation; but they have not given any reason for their scepticism. Why should it not be true ?—M.