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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    [Mr. Brande has lately given the follow- ing estimate of the relative proportions of the ultimate elements of morphine : Carbon 72.00 Nitrogen ..... 5.50 Hydrogen .... 5.50 Oxygen 17. 100 k] ACTION OF MORPHINE ON MAN AND ON ANIMALS. Pure morphine being but little soluble, would scarcely seem to form the narcotic part of opium.1 Nevertheless, direct ex- periment has abundantly proved that such is the fact. For example, even the weak dose of a quarter of a grain, or half a grain (gr. .205, or 0.41 troy) of morphine, dissolved in oil, produces effects very markedly nar- cotic; but this narcotic power becomes very manifest when the morphine is com- bined with acids; because the salts of mor- k [Journal of Science, &c. No. 32.] 1 It must be recollected that morphine does not exist free in opium. It is united to the meconic acid, and is thus in the state of a salt of mor- phine. Should not the meconate be made and tpied, it being the natural preparation ?—Tr.