aa A “drug, ictling 
hedescribed:anany ofits properties: Simultaneot 
these discoveries, Sertuerner, at: maborts in Hanover, 
obtained both Bo gee bodies. eae he first 
announced | 
and the salts of Morphia, ste oath it aah Sat ie 
be, was first noticed by Robiquet.. He aio 
crepant and distinguishing app paien: ; ‘ = 
MORPHIA. Morphine. , 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 513. 
When pure, is in fine, transparent, truncated, 
- crystals, with square or rectangular bases, at which 
; are occasionally united, forming octohedral crystals; very. 
soluble in hot alcohol, the solution being very bitter =, 
speingly in boiling water; much less soluble in ether 
than alcohol. Changes turmeric, and violet stained paper, 
as alkalies do; forms neutral salts with acids, and decom- 
poses the compounds of acids with metallic oxides; its — 
combination with sulphur, by assistance of heat, is near- _ 
ly simultaneously decomposed ; does not form soap with — 
an oxidized oil; fuses at a moderate temperature, in a mass 
resembling melted sulphur, and like it, crystallizes on cool-* 
ing. It is decomposed by distillation, the Lear cs being 
oil, carb. ammonia, and a black residual resin of pe 
odour; heated in contact with air, inflames quickly; ap- 
pears to commingle with mercury, and change its consist- — 
ence; is bees Sz : Voltaic pile. Its ultimate com- 
ponent € 1ose of lio mer PS eer 
are (analyzed by the deutoxide of 
copper, ) carbon, carbon, hydrogens: —and nitre 
ff kmmonia have been em 1 st peepan ant in prepar- 
ing it, as is the case wee all the modes but that of 
Robiquet. Paris states the crystalline formation of the — 
salts of Morphia; for which, Mr. G. W. Carpenter has 
dit to Dr. Coxe, by remarking, in his 
erroneously given cre 
paper male constituent ‘Principles of opium, in sy : 
* For a detail of the ag used by these chemists, to Pair hese pri “xa oa 
! to the Annales de Chimie Vols. 45, 92; and 
ples, I refer pes eg yang in the agngly f Philosophy, for 
et Phys. tom, 5; to 
June 1820—to Ma, gendie’ $s Formu ry, translated by Dr. Dunglison, 
in the University nrg 3 4 to the New Parisian * Codex; and generally to the 
peng Dileations, of last few years, on medicine and chemistry; to the 
“( our cine ; ri ‘Hare, in _ Phil. Jour. ee 
pe Phy. § Se; — to the 
whose intimate knowle 
you any information on 
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