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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    10DINA. Iodine. Iodine is a simple body, discovered, in 1813, by M. Courtois, in the mother wa- ters of soda, as it is obtained from sea-weed. aThe name of iodine is derived from the Greek word lafts, on account of the blue a [Iodine has been obtained from a great va- riety of sea-plants, as the Fucus sacc/iarinus, digi- tattiSy serratus, vcsiculosus, siliquosus, Jilu?n, no- dosus, fiaimatus, digitatus, rubens, cartilagineiis, ?ne?nbrantieeus, and JUamentosus ; Ulva fiavonia, umhilicalis, and linza, &c. It has also been pro- cured from sponge by Dr. Fyfe and M. Straub of Hofwyl; M. Fodere, however, has strong doubts whether this substance really exist in sponge : and he informs us that M. Hecht, a pharmacien at Strasburg, has not in any case been able to de- tect it by means of starch, which is the best test for it: it is difficult to account for the results of M. Hecht's experiments, as the ashes of sponge do incontestibly turn slightly blue on the addition of starch : from the small quantity, however, of iodine comprised in it, it is very improbable that the medicinal efficacy of burnt sponge can be wholly dependent on the iodine which it con- tains.]