[254] Gilbert’s Annalen der Physik, lv. (1817) 57.
[255] Annales de Chimie, xcii (1814) 225.
[256] The Institut de France on the 27th June, 1831, awarded to Sertürner a prize of 2000 francs—“pour avoir reconnu la nature alcaline de la morphine, et avoir ainsi ouvert une voie qui a produit de grandes découvertes médicales.”
[257] There are exceptional cases in which it is asserted that water does not take up the whole amount of morphine.
[258] In large crystals by means of oil of turpentine.
[259] In 1851 Hinterberger described as a peculiar alkaloid, Opianine; Dr. Hesse has examined Hinterberger’s specimen of this body, and found (1875) it to consist of impure narcotine.
[260] Berichte d. Deutsch. Chem. Gesellsch. zu Berlin, iii. (1870) 182.
[261] Annales de Chimie et de Physique, xlix. (1832) 5-20.—The paper was read before the Acad. de Méd., 13th May, 1826.
[262] Mémoire sur le dosage de l’Opium et sur la quantité de morphine que l’opium doit contenir, Paris, 1862.
[263] Schroff, Ausstellungsbericht, Arzneiwaaren, p. 31.