Faraday to Charles Babbage   7 May 1832

Royal Institution | May 7th 1832

My dear Sir

I send you all the authorities I have looked at there is not even an exception in favour of Quinine 1

Henry 2. Elements 11th Edition

Quinia. Cinchonia Atropia Veratria Delphia Picrotoxia 3 &c &c

Phillips Translation of Pharmacopoeia

Quina. Cinchonia Morphia 4

Paris 5. Dr. Medical Chemistry & Pharmacologia

Quina Cinchonia Strychnia Morphia Delphia Atropia 6 &c &c

Turner Dr. Elements of Chemistry

Quina Cinchonia Morphia Delphia Strychnia 7 &c &c

Turner says once on its history "or Quinine"8 but in title & elsewhere Quina

Brande. Manual

Quinia Cinchonia. Morphia Delphia 9 &c &c

Christison 10 on Poisons

Says Atropia Strychnia 11 &c &c but as he speaks of Poisons only has not the analogous bodies, Quinia &c

Hare Dr. of Philadelphia United States Chem Compendium

Quinia Cinchonia. Veratria, Delphia 12 &c &c

He says however once for each "or Quinine" Cinchonine Veratrine" Delphine"13 &c &c

The French say. Quinine Cinchonine Veratrine Delphine Morphine 14 &c &c throughout[.]

If you write Quinine only, you will be as far as I have looked for authorities the only English Scientific writer who has done so.

I am | Dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Charles Babbage Esq | &c &c &c

1
Babbage needed this information for Babbage (1832a), section 341 where he used quinia. See also letter 549.
2
William Henry (1774-1836, DSB). Manchester chemist.
3
Henry, W. (1829), 2: 334, 334, 332, 333, 330, 331 respectively.
4
Phillips (1831), 160, 159, 178 respectively.
5
John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856, DNB). Physician.
6
Paris (1825b), 545, 543, 548, 536, 551, 553 respectively and Paris (1825a), 2: 161, 159, 347, 346, 347, 347 respectively.
7
Turner (1831), 708, 708, 704, 715, 711 respectively.
8
Ibid., 709.
9
Brande (1830), 2: 545, 542, 532, 539 respectively.
10
Robert Christison (1797-1882, DNB). Physician and toxicologist.
11
Christison (1829), 609, 636 respectively.
12
Hare, R. (1828), 270, 270, 271, 271 respectively.
13
Ibid., 270, 270, 271, 271 respectively.
14
See, for example, Thenard (1827), 3: 727, 725, 736, 745, 721 respectively.

Bibliography

BABBAGE, Charles (1832a): On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, London.

BRANDE, William Thomas (1830): A Manual of Chemistry, 3rd edition, 2 volumes, London.

CHRISTISON, Robert (1829): A Treatise on Poisons, Edinburgh.

HARE, Robert (1828): A compendium of the course of chemical instruction in the Medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

HENRY, William (1829): The Elements of Experimental Chemistry, 11th edition, 2 volumes, London.

PARIS, John Ayrton (1825a): Pharmacologia, 6th edition, 2 volumes, London.

PARIS, John Ayrton (1825b): The Elements of Medical Chemistry, ... a Chemical Grammar to the Author's Pharmacologia, London.

PHILLIPS, Richard (1831): A Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2nd edition, London.

THENARD, Louis Jacques (1827): Traité de chimie, 5th edition, 5 volumes, Paris.

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