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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    concentrated solution of opium with a small quantity of magnesia, (10 grains [gr. 8.2 troy] to the pound of opium, [15 oz. 6 dr. 1 gr. troyf]). He collects the greyish and somewhat abundant deposit on the filter, and washes it with cold water. When this precipitate is well dried, he treats it by weak alcohol for some time, at a temperature less than that of ebullition. By this means he separates very little morphine and much co- louring matter. He filtrates and washes the precipitate by means of a little cold alcohol; then strongly boils it in a large quantity of of perfectly pure magnesia (carefully avoiding the carbonate) are to be added. Boil this mixture for ten minutes, and separate the sediment by a filter, washing it with cold water until the water passes off clear. After which, treat it alternately with hot and cold alcohol 12-22° Beaume, (or s. g. 923), as long as the menstruum takes up any colouring matter. The residue is then to be treated with boiling alcohol of 22-32° Beaume, (or s. g. .868,) for a few minutes. The solution, on cooling, will deposit crystals of morphia.— Tr. f Mr. Thomson says 184 grains to the lb. of opium, which is probably a mistake ; because, although he quotes from M. Robiquet's paper in the Annates de Chimie, his words are, boil, 8cc, •with a small quantity (184 grains to lib. 1. of opium) of magnesia. 184 grains is not a small quantity.—Tr