An historical and practical treatise on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid : in pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest; as well as in several complaints attended by great nervous irritation, or acute pain.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1820
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Credit: An historical and practical treatise on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid : in pulmonary consumption, and other diseases of the chest; as well as in several complaints attended by great nervous irritation, or acute pain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    a distinction since adopted by Magendie and others, need not be mentioned in this place. It will be sufficient to give the formula em- ployed by Vauquelin, and recently adopted by the Faculty of medicine at Paris, in their Pharmacopoeia.* The Prussic Acid, prepared according to his directions, or to those of Scheele, is a safe and valuable medicine in the hands of a cautious practitioner. The formula will be found in another part of this paper. Having obtained from the Prussian blue, the Prussic Acid, in its purest state, it was to be expected that so acute a chemist, as Gay Lussac, would not be long in discovering its real nature. This has indeed been the case ; and we now know that it consists of a particu- lar gaseous and highly inflammable combina- tion of carbone and azote, acidified by the ad- dition of hydrogene. f * Codex Medicamentarius, sive Pharmacopoeia Gallica, jussu Regis optimi editus a Facultate Medica Parisiensi, anno, 1818. t So far back as 1784, Brugnatelli had obtained by distilling a