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To W. W. Baxter   27 October [1874]

Please send 2 Bottles of Chlorodyne.—1 Also 6 bottles with corks & wide mouths about as large as such bottles are sold with smelling-salts.— Also 6 bottles of smaller size with wide mouths & corks

C. Darwin

Down | Oct. 27th

ApcS

Postmark: OC 27 74

1
Chlorodyne was a patent medicine containing chloroform and hydrochlorate of morphia, initially developed to treat cholera and diarrhoea but later marketed to treat a wide range of symptoms. Its addictive properties put it at the centre of campaigns for pharmaceutical control legislation in the 1880s and 1890s (Berridge and Edwards 1981, p. 126).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9699,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9699