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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    produced by it, are also described as fre- quently extending to a dangerous and even Tatal result. When the patient is under the full constitutional influence of iodine, Dr. Gairdner has found a degree of tremor to come on, which he considers as a good guage of the extent of nervous excitement which has taken place, and is seldom or never absent when that excitement has pro- ceeded to any considerable degree; this nervous excitement simulates chorea, and occasionally endures for a considerable length of time. In the cholera induced by iodine, Dr. Gairdner has found sedatives, such as opium, hyoscyamus, &c, more beneficial than any other class of medicines; purgatives are said invariably to do harm. It is somewhat curious that Decarro, Coin- det, Erlinger, Formey, Hufeland, and others, have employed this remedy in a va- riety of cases, but have never witnessed its deleterious properties: or, at all events, have never described them.] CASES IN WHICH THE PREPARATIONS OF IODINE MAY BE EMPLOYED. M. Coindet, a physician of Geneva, first used iodine in medicine. He employed it in the treatment of goitre with very marked