From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 21–2
Summary:
Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.
Informs CD that he has forwarded some oils and opium.
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.
Orders enema.
Thanks for information about the Atropia.