Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine, cinchonine, the hydro-cyanic acid, narcotine, strychnine, nux vomica, emetine, atropine, picrotoxine, brucine, lupuline, &c., &c. : with an appendix / with an introduction, and copious notes by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire" by Robley Dunglison ; revised and corrected by a physician of Philadelphia.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine, cinchonine, the hydro-cyanic acid, narcotine, strychnine, nux vomica, emetine, atropine, picrotoxine, brucine, lupuline, &c., &c. : with an appendix / with an introduction, and copious notes by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire" by Robley Dunglison ; revised and corrected by a physician of Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORMULARY, &c. MORPHINAs MORPHIUM, MORPHIA. Morphine, Nothing better shows the imperfection of the science of medicines, so singularly de- nominated Materia Medica, than the history of opium ; alternately it has been proscribed as eminently hurtful, or vaunted as a pana- a [The ending in ina has been preferred, inas- much as errors will be less likely to arise, from the greater dissimilarity between the termina- tions of the names of the plant and its base, than when any other of the terms which have been proposed are employed : as regards strychnia no inaccuracy need have been apprehended; but the terms cinchonia, veratria, solania, atro/iia, are so similar to those of the plants of which they are the bases, that, especially if the words were abridged, the occurrence of many mistakes might be apprehended. Added to which, those bases, as morfihina and emetina, which have been admit- ted into the Parisian Pharmacopoeia, have been latinized according to the plan here adopted.] 3