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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    with concentrated nitric acid, which is not the case with the sulphate of quinine. [The Paris Pharmacopoeia directs 6 parts of morphine to 12 of distilled water to be used, and that the sulphuric acid should be diluted with twice its bulk of water, and added to the morphine, until turnsol pa- per is no longer converted red.] MODE OF PRESCRIBING THE SALTS OF MORPHINE. As it was my desire to form officinal preparations of the salts of morphine, which should resemble as closely as possible the most common preparations of opium, I first made a syrup of morphine according to the following formula :— SYRUPUS MORPHINiE ACETATIS. Syrup of Acetate of Morphine. Take of Perfectly clarified syrup . . 1 pound (15 oz. 6 dr. 1 gr. troy). Acetate of morphine . . . 4 grains (gr. 3.281 troy). Form a syrup which will supply the place of the syrup of diacodium ; and the more advan- tageously, as the latter preparation is, as k were, arbitrary, and therefore not uniform.