Formulary for the preparation and mode of employing several new remedies : namely, morphine, iodine, quinine, cinchonine, the hydrocyanic acid, narcotine, strychnine, nux vomica, emetine, atropine, picrotoxine, brucine, lupuline, &c. &c. / with an introduction and copious notes by the late Charles Thomas Haden, esq. ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendil's 'Formulaire'.

  • Magendie, Francois, 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 hydrocyanic acid, narcotine, strychnine, nux vomica, emetine, atropine, picrotoxine, brucine, lupuline, &c. &c. / with an introduction and copious notes by the late Charles Thomas Haden, esq. ; translated from the French of the third edition of Magendil's 'Formulaire'. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proving the therapeutical branch of our profession. He is almost angry when he sees the popular au- thors of the day sneering at the introduction of new remedies, and saying, with what he considers to be an ignorant self-conceit, “ Ay, here they come, one after another, vaunted to the skies for properties which sober investigation shews not to belong to them; we shall soon see them laid on the shelf, until they are again held up to the world as prodigies by some future enthusiastic searchers after novelty.” How humiliating such remarks are to the person who makes them! for it is easy to prove, that in the great majority of cases, the sneer is applicable, not to the remedy, but to persons who are too ignorant or too indolent to investigate its properties so thoroughly as to use it with success. Men who really think for themselves, and are not content with conclusions unless they are drawn from an accurate and philosophical consideration of all the circumstances of each individual case, know full well, that the trials of new remedies which are made by the Profession at large, are so superficial and in- conclusive, as to be a disgrace to themselves, and not worthy of the slightest attention when the value of such remedies is under discussion. It should be re- collected, that the majority of persons who bring forward a new remedy, have studied the properties