A formulary for the preparation and medical administration of certain new remedies / translated from the French of M. Magendie, with annotations and additional articles by James Manby Gully, M.D.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A formulary for the preparation and medical administration of certain new remedies / translated from the French of M. Magendie, with annotations and additional articles by James Manby Gully, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORMULARY FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF SEVERAL NEW REMEDIES. RESIN OF NUX VOMICA. In the year 1809 I presented to the senior class of the French Institute an account of a series of experiments which had led to the discovery that a whole vegetable family, the bitter strychni, possessed the property of stimulating the spinal marrow to an extraordinary de- velopement of its functions, without implicating, other- wise than indirectly, those of the brain; and I then observed that this discovery might be beneficially ap- plied in the treatment of disease. This conjecture has since been abundantly confirmed by numerous evidences at the bedside of the patient. M. Fouquier had, some years before, published several cases of palsy which he had cured by nux vomica, and similar experiments had been made with success by myself. Since that time I have never ceased to employ the alcoholic extract of nux vomica with the best results, not only in paralysis, but in several other kinds of general or partial debility of the system. Preparation of the Alcoholic Extract of Nux Vomica. Exhaust a given quantity of rasped nux vomica with alcohol at 40°, and at the lowest possible temperature; then evaporate slowly to the consistence of an extract. B