Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire."

  • 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 ... / with an introduction, and copious notes, by the late Charles Thomas Haden ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendie's "Formulaire.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORMULARY, &c. MORPHINAa. MORPHIUM, MORPHIA. Morphine. Nothing better shews the imperfection of the # science of medicines, so singularly denominated Materia Medica, than the history of opium ; alternately it has been proscribed as eminently hurtful, or vaunted as a panacea. By some it has been supposed to calm, and procure sleep ; ’ v f [The éhding in ina has been preferred, inasmuch as errors will be less likely to arise, from the greater ÿ ’i* * dissimilarity between the terrpinations of the names of the plant and its base, than when any other of the terms which have been proposed are employed : as re¬ gards strychnia no inaccuracy need have been appre¬ hended ; but the terms cinchonia, veratria, solania, atropia, are so similar to those of the plants of which they are the bases, that, especially if the words were abridged, the occurrence of many mistakes might be apprehended. Added to which, those bases, as morphina and emetina, which have been admitted into the Parisian Pharma¬ copoeia, have been latinized according to the plan here adopted.] B