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DEROSNE, Charles Louis (1780-1846). "Memoir sur l'Opium." Offprint from: Annales de chimie 45 (1802). [Paris, 1802].
8o (208 x 141 mm). Original plain paper wrappers, sewn, uncut; cloth folding case. Provenance: Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836), famous French botanist who worked with his uncle Bernard at the Jardin du Roi and author of the Genera plantarum, published in 1789 (presentation inscription from the author on the front cover: "Mr. De Jussieu au jardin des Plantes de la part d l'auteur").
FIRST SEPARATE APPEARANCE. PRESENTATION COPY TO THE GREAT BOTANIST DE JUSSIEU. "Derosne isolated a crystalline precipitate of morphine and narcotine from opium as early as 1803, two years before Sertrner published his first papers on the isolation of morphine; unlike Sertrner, however, Derosne did not recognize the alkaloid nature of the precipitate. He reported that a small quantity of the substance he had isolated had the same physiological effects as much larger amounts of raw opium" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1838.3 ("isolation of alkaloids from opium"); Partington IV, pp. 240-41; Wellcome II, p. 451; Norman 620.
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FIRST SEPARATE APPEARANCE. PRESENTATION COPY TO THE GREAT BOTANIST DE JUSSIEU. "Derosne isolated a crystalline precipitate of morphine and narcotine from opium as early as 1803, two years before Sertrner published his first papers on the isolation of morphine; unlike Sertrner, however, Derosne did not recognize the alkaloid nature of the precipitate. He reported that a small quantity of the substance he had isolated had the same physiological effects as much larger amounts of raw opium" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1838.3 ("isolation of alkaloids from opium"); Partington IV, pp. 240-41; Wellcome II, p. 451; Norman 620.