PKOFESSOR GUIBOURT. 



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1867. 



sitting in Paris, who to the number of 140 testified their respect 



for his memory by accompanying his remains to the church in Work and 



which the funeral service was performed. writings. 



Professor Guibourt was named a Knight of the Legion of 

 Honour in 1846, and in 1863 was promoted to the grade of 

 Officer ; he was also a member of the Imperial Academy of 

 Medicine, and of many learned societies of the Continent. 

 But honourable as were these titles, still more so was the 

 reputation he derived from its numerous and valuable writings. 

 In 1820 he published in two octavo volumes his Histoire 

 Abregee des Drogues Simples, a work which passed through 

 three editions, re-appearing a fourth time in 1849-51 in an 

 enlarged form, under the altered title of Histoire Naturelle des 

 Drogues Simples. Professor Guibourt was also author of a 

 Pharmacopde Raisonne'e, the first edition of which was published 

 in 1828 in conjunction with the late M. Henry. Two subsequent 

 editions, dated respectively 1834 and 1841, were from the pen of 

 M. Guibourt alone. Nor was he less industrious as a contributor 

 to the periodical literature of pharmacy, for we find that between 

 1814 and 1867, there are but three years in which his busy pen 

 failed to present the result of some observations to the pharma- 

 ceutical public. But if the year 1861, which was one of these 

 three, supplied no communication from M. Guibourt, his elaborate Estimation of 

 memoir on the estimation of morphia in opium, published in morphia in 

 the beginning of 1862, abundantly explained why his silence 

 had been longer than usual. This memoir, which extends over 

 70 pages, has been printed as a separate pamphlet, and is 

 one of the most interesting and valuable records of its author's 

 labours on a single subject. Numerous samples of the opium of 

 Turkey, Egypt, Persia, India and Europe were submitted to ex- 

 amination with results that served to prove that morphia is a 

 much larger constitutent of that drug than had been commonly 

 stated or than is even at the present time admitted. Of twelve 

 specimens of commercial Anatolian opium analysed by M. 

 Guibourt, none afforded less than 9 '60 per cent, of morphia or 

 11*70 from the same opium when dried ; while the richest 



opium. 



