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Illustrations of the Medical Properties of Quinina

1823; SAGE Publishing; Volume: MCT-12; Issue: P2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/09595287230120p222

0959-5287

John Elliotson,

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AMONG the energetic substances which the inf dustry and sagacity of continental chemists have extracted from various articles of the Materia Medica,and upon which the peculiar properties ofthese appear to depend, none have hitherto been turned to any medical purpose in their separate state, I believe, except the Hydrocyanic Acid, Iodine, Morphina, Emetina, and some of those which are furnished by Cinchona.An account of the pro.perties of Strychnina, Veratrina, Hyoscyamina, and other alkaline substances procured from ve- getable narcotics, is to be found, not in works upon the practice of medicine, but in Orfila's Treatise upon Poisons, or in similar writings of ex- perimental physiologists.The Hydrocyanic Acid VOL.XII.0 0Of the three substances discovered in Cin- chonat,-the alcali Quinina, found in Cinchona Cordifolia, and more abundantly in the Oblongi- folia,-the alcali Cinchoninat, found in Cinchona * Some valuable cases of the successful exhibition of the by.wdriodate of potassa are related by Dr. Baron of Gloucester, in his," Illustrations of the Inquiry into Tuberculous Diseases."t Pelletier and Caventou, Journal de Pharmacie.Fevrier. 1821.All the additional alcaline bbdies have so lately come to light,