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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    containing resin, narcotine, and an acid,—- probably the acetic. In order to obtain the narcotine from this liquor, it must be sub- jected to evaporation ; the residuum treated with boiling water, which does not dissolve the resin, and the narcotine be precipitated from the filtered liquor by ammonia. The narcotine is afterwards obtained from the sa- line crust, by depriving it first of the resin and caoutchouc, by means of rectified oil of turpentine, washing the residuum with cold alcohol, dissolving it afterwards in hot, and precipitating the narcotine by ammonia. This precipitate, as well as the former, is then dissolved in the least quantity possible of hydrochloric acid, and again precipitated by ammonia. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF NARCOTINE. Narcotine crystallizes from its alcoholic or ethereal solution, in fine needles or in rhomboidal prisms. It has no action on vegetable colours. It is without smell and taste. Cold alcohol dissolves T^th Part» and boiling ^th, of its weight. Hot ether dissolves it in considerable quantity, and suf- fers it to be deposited in a crystalline form on cooling.a]} a [C/iimie Organique de Gmelin—Edition dc Virey. p. 392.]