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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    [Dr. Gairdner, however, in a recent ex professo work on iodine,c the first mono- graph of the kind which has appeared in England, has given a lamentable picture of the effects of that substance when injudi- ciously exhibited : the symptoms usually- produced, in addition to those above de- scribed, are said to be, peculiar, great, and persevering anxiety and depression of spi- rits, which are very different from hypo- chondriasis, inasmuch as they dwell princi- pally on the present, and have no reference to the future; the emaciation and cholera that the above observations scarcely tally with his experience. The tincture frequently stimulates the arterial system so much, that it is necessary to discontinue its use. In one scrofulous case, a girl, six years of age, although she immediately began to recover when she first took the tincture of iodine, and has continued to improve under its use more rapidly than during any former plan of treatment, she is still unable to take the re- medy for more than three or four days in succes- sion, in consequence of her skin becoming hot, and a disposition to delirium on waking from sleep invariably coming on. However, if M. Ma- gendie's observations be taken literally, they lead to an inference, that the tincture of iodine is an inert substance, unworthy of notice as a re- medy-—Tr. c \_Essay on the Effects of Iodine, &c. By W. Gairdner, M. D. Underwoods, 1824.] 5*