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