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
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
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.
Thanks for information about the Atropia.