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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    [The acetate of morphine has obtained a place in the Paris Pharmacopoeia, and the following directions are laid down for its preparation : Take of morphine 4 parts; distilled water 8 parts; dilute the morphine in a porcelain vessel, afterwards add acetic acid s. g. 1.075, until turnsol paper becomes scarcely converted red: evaporate the solu- tion to the consistence of syrup. Continue the evaporation slowly, either in the sun or in a stove; collect the salt, and reduce it to powder.p] MORPHINJE SULPHAS. Sulphate of Morphine. Dissolve the morphine in sulphuric acid previously diluted with water. The solu- tion, made hot and evaporated to a certain point, crystallizes, on cooling, in silky tufts. This salt very much resembles the sulphate of quinine, with which it may be con- founded ; but it becomes red when treated in arborescent or branching crystals, soluble in two parts of water at 60° ; the carbonate, in short prismatic crystals, soluble in four parts of water at 60°. (Thomson's Dispensatory, p. 419.)—Tr. P [Codex Medicamentarius, sive Pharmacolceia Gallica, 1818. P. 387.]