Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts Volume Ii Part 185

=Quinine, Hydri'odate of.= _Syn._ IODIDE OF QUININE; QUINae HYDRIODAS, Q.

IODIDUM, L. _Prep._ 1. By adding, drop by drop, a concentrated solution of iodide of pota.s.sium to a like solution of acid sulphate of quinine, and drying the precipitate in the shade; or heat the liquid nearly to the boiling point, and allow it to crystallise.

2. (Parrish.) Effloresced sulphate of quinine, 5 parts, dissolved in alcohol, and decomposed by an alcoholic solution of 3 parts of iodide of pota.s.sium, precipitates sulphate of pota.s.sa, and yields, on cooling and evaporating, hydriodate of quinine in fine crystalline needles.[130]

[Footnote 130: "1 and 2 are not identical; 1 is an acid salt which readily crystallises, but 2 is a normal salt which I never saw crystallise, but always like a fluid resin, quite amorphous."--De Vrij.]

3. (IODURETTED--Bouchardat.) From an acid solution of quinia and a solution of iodide of iron containing a slight excess of iron, as No. 1.

_Obs._ The above are reputed alterative, tonic, and antiperiodic.--_Dose_, 1 to 4 gr.; in obstinate intermittents, and in the scrofulous affections of debilitated subjects.

=Quinine, Hydrochlo"rate of.= _Syn._ CHLORIDE OF QUININE, MURIATE OF QUININE; QUINae HYDROCHLORAS, QUINae MURIAS, L. _Prep._ 1. By neutralising dilute hydrochloric acid with the base, as above.

2. (Ph. Bor.) Chloride of barium, 5 dr.; boiling water, 1 lb.; dissolve, add, gradually, of sulphate of quinine, 2 oz.; boil gently for a few minutes, filter the solution whilst hot, and set it aside that crystals may form.

3. (QUINae MURIAS--Ph. D.) Dissolve chloride of barium, 123 gr., in distilled water, 2 fl. oz.; add of sulphate of quinine, 1 oz., dissolved in boiling water, 1-1/2 pint; mix, evaporate the solution to one half, filter, and again evaporate until spiculae begin to appear; next allow the liquid to cool, collect the crystals, and dry them on bibulous paper. The mother liquor, by further concentration and cooling, will yield an additional product.

_Obs._ Hydrochlorate of quinine occurs in snow-white groups of feathery crystals, of a mother-of-pearl l.u.s.tre, which are more freely soluble than those of the disulphate.

=Quinine and Iodide of Iron.= _Syn._ QUINae ET FERRI IODIDUM.

(Bouchardat.) _Prep._ Pour a strong solution of acid sulphate of quinine into a fresh solution of iodide of iron; collect the precipitate, dry it quickly by pressing it between blotting paper, and keep it from the air.

=Quinine, Ki'nate of.= _Syn._ QUINae KINAS, L. _Prep._ By saturating a solution of kinic acid with quinine, and purifying by crystallisation out of alcohol. The kinate of quinine is obtained in crystalline warts, soluble in 4 parts of water and 8 parts of alcohol.

=Quinine, Lac'tate of.= _Syn._ QUINae LACTAS, L. _Prep._ As the ACETATE or CITRATE. By spontaneous evaporation fine crystals may be obtained. Said to agree better with dyspeptic patients than the other salts of quinine.

=Quinine, Mu"riate of.= Hydrochlorate of quinine (see _above_).

=Quinine, Neutral Hydrobromate of.= _Syn._ QUINae HYDROBROMAS. (M. Boille.) This salt is prepared by double decomposition of bromide of barium and neutral sulphate of quinia, and is thus easily obtained pure and free from chloride, the great solubility of bromide of barium in alcohol facilitating the removal of any chloride which is insoluble.

The two salts are dissolved separately in alcohol and the solutions filtered. The neutral sulphate of quinia solution is gradually added, in slight excess, to the bromide of barium solution until a precipitate ceases to form.

The solutions, diluted with water, are distilled to recover the alcohol, afterwards filtered to separate the sulphate of quinia which has been precipitated by the water, and then concentrated sufficiently to induce rapid crystallisation. The addition of water is indispensable for the concentration and crystallisation; the hydrobromate, being soluble in alcohol of all proportions, redissolves as the alcoholic liquor is concentrated. M. Boille claims for his neutral hydrobromate of quinine its much readier solubility over the officinal sulphate, as well as its superior richness in quinine.

=Quinine, Ni'trate of.= _Syn._ QUINae NITRAS, L. _Prep._ As the HYDROCHLORATE, subst.i.tuting dilute nitric acid, or nitrate of baryta (P.

Cod.), for hydrochloric acid or chloride of barium.

=Quinine, Phos'phate of.= _Syn._ QUINae PHOSPHAS, L. As the ACETATE. Silky, needle-shaped crystals, with a pearly l.u.s.tre. It has been highly recommended in intermittents, &c., a.s.sociated with rickets and stomach affections.

=Quinine, Salicylate of.= _Syn._ QUINae SALICYLAS. This may be made by mixing an alcoholic solution of quinine with an alcoholic solution of salicylic acid to complete saturation, and afterwards allowing the alcohol slowly to evaporate.

=Quinine, Sul'phates of.= The salt often called 'disulphate of quinine' is now generally regarded as the normal sulphate, while the soluble salt, often called the 'neutral sulphate' is considered to be an acid salt.

This change in nomenclature results from doubling the atomic weight of the alkaloid quinine:--

1. =Quinine Acid, Sulphate of.= (C_{20}P_{24}N_{3}O_{2}.H_{2}SO_{4}.7Aq.) _Syn._ SULPHATE OF QUININE, NEUTRAL SULPHATE OF QUININE, SOLUBLE S. OF Q.; QUINae SULPHAS SOLUBILIS, L. _Prep._ From sulphate of quinine, 1 oz., dissolved, by the aid of heat, in water, 1/2 pint, previously acidulated with dilute sulphuric acid, 5 fl. dr.; the solution affords crystals on cooling, and more on evaporation.

_Obs._ This salt possesses the advantage of being soluble in about 10 parts of water at 60 Fahr.; but it is seldom used in the crystalline form; still, as the officinal sulphate ('disulphate') is generally prescribed along with a small quant.i.ty of dilute sulphuric acid to render it soluble, this acid sulphate is, in fact, the compound which is commonly given. It is the 'bisulphate,' 'supersulphate,' or 'acid sulphate of quina' of Soubeiran and other Continental chemists.

2. =Quinine, Sulphate of.= (C_{20}H_{24}N_{2}O_{2})_{2}.2H_{2}SO_{4}.7Aq.

_Syn._ NORMAL SULPHATE OF QUININE, DISULPHATE OF Q., QUININE; QUINae DISULPHAS (Ph. L.), QUINae SULPHAS (Ph. E., D., & U. S., & P. Cod.), QUINae SULPHAS (B. P.), L.; SULPHATE DE QUININE, Fr. _Prep._ 1. (Ph. L. 1836.) Take of yellow cinchona bark, bruised, 7 lbs.; sulphuric acid, 4-1/4 oz.; (diluted with) water, 6 galls.; boil them for 1 hour, and strain; repeat this a second time for 1 hour, with a like quant.i.ty of acid and water, and again strain; next boil the bark for 3 hours, in water, 8 galls., and strain; wash the residue with fresh quant.i.ties of boiling distilled water; to the mixed decoctions and was.h.i.+ngs, add moist hydrated oxide of lead to saturation, decant the supernatant fluid, and wash the sediment with distilled water; boil down the liquor for 15 minutes, and strain, then precipitate the quina with liquor of ammonia and wash the precipitate (with very cold water) until nothing alkaline is perceptible; saturate what remains with sulphuric acid, 1/2 oz., diluted with water, q. s., digest with animal charcoal, 2 oz., and strain; lastly, the charcoal being well washed, evaporate the mixed liquors, that crystals may form.

2. (Ph. E.) This process varies from the last one, in the bark (1 lb.) being first boiled in water (4 pints) along with carbonate of soda (4 oz.); the residuum, being pressed, is moistened with water, and again pressed, and this operation is repeated a second and a third time, the object being to remove, as much as possible, the acids, colouring matter, gum, and extractive, before proceeding to extract the alkaloid. Carbonate of soda is also used as the precipitant, instead of ammonia, and the precipitate is formed into a sulphate (disulphate) by being stirred with boiling water, 1 pint, to which sulphuric acid, 1 fl. scruple, or q. s., is subsequently added. The crystals, after digestion with prepared animal charcoal, 2 dr., are ordered to be dried at a heat not higher than 140 Fahr.

3. (Ph. D.) Yellow bark, 1 lb., is macerated for 24 hours in water, 2 quarts, acidulated with oil of vitriol, 2 fl. dr., and then boiled for half an hour, after which the fluid is decanted; this is repeated a second and a third time with water, 2 quarts, and oil of vitriol, 1 fl. dr.; the decanted (or strained) liquors are evaporated to a quart, and filtered, and slaked lime, 1 oz., or q. s., added to the solution until it exhibits a decidedly alkaline reaction; the precipitate is next collected on a calico filter, and, after having been washed with cold water, partially dried on porous bricks, and subjected to powerful pressure enveloped in blotting paper, is boiled for 20 minutes in rectified spirit, 1 pint, and the liquid, after subsidence, decanted; this is repeated a second and a third time with a fresh pint of spirit, and the residuum being well pressed, the mixed liquors are filtered, and the spirit removed by distillation; the brown viscid residuum is dissolved in boiling water, 16 fl. oz., boiled, and dilute sulphuric acid, 1/2 fl. oz, or q. s., added to render the solution neutral or only slightly acid; animal charcoal, 1/2 oz., is next stirred in, the mixture boiled for about 5 minutes, filtered, and set aside to crystallise; the crystals are dried on blotting paper by mere exposure to a dry atmosphere.

4. (B. P.) Yellow cinchona bark, in coa.r.s.e powder, 16; hydrochloric acid, 3; distilled water, a sufficiency; solution of soda, 80; dilute sulphuric acid, a sufficiency. Dilute the hydrochloric acid with 10 pints of the water. Place the bark in a porcelain basin, and add to it as much of the diluted hydrochloric acid as will render it thoroughly moist. After maceration, with occasional stirring, for twenty-four hours, place the bark in a displacement apparatus, and percolate with the diluted hydrochloric acid until the solution which drops through is nearly dest.i.tute of bitter taste. Into this liquid (hydrochlorate of quinine) pour the solution of soda, agitate well, let the precipitate (quinine) completely subside, decant the supernatant fluid, collect the precipitate on a filter, and wash it with cold distilled water until the was.h.i.+ngs cease to have colour. Transfer the precipitate to a porcelain dish containing a pint of distilled water, and, applying to this the heat of a water bath, gradually add diluted sulphuric acid until very nearly the whole of the precipitate has been dissolved, and a neutral liquid has been obtained. (Or add about half the precipitated quinine to some water in an evaporating basin, warm the mixture and pour in diluted sulphuric acid until the precipitate has dissolved and the liquid is neutral or only faintly acid, then add the other half, stir well, and again heat liquid.) Filter the solution (sulphate of quinine), while hot, through paper, wash the filter with boiling distilled water, concentrate till a film forms on the surface of the solution, and set it aside to crystallise. The crystals should be dried on filtering paper without the application of heat.

5. "Those who are well acquainted with the chemistry of the cinchona-alkaloids all agree with me in condemning the boiling of bark with dilute acids. I prefer the following method, which can also be used on a small scale for quinometry:--

"Yellow bark, or any other bark in which quinine prevails, like, for instance, that of _Cinchona officinalis_, 1 lb., is mixed with milk of lime, made from 4 oz. of lime and 40 oz. of water. After drying this mixture it is exhausted with strong methylated spirit (the strongest possible) and the slightly coloured solution neutralised with sulphuric acid, so that the liquor has a slight acid reaction upon blue litmus paper. After filtering or subsiding, the clear liquid is distilled and the residue in the still dissolved in water, carefully neutralised, so that the solution has a slight alkaline reaction upon red litmus paper, treated with charcoal and crystallised, &c."--De Vrij.

6. ('HOSPITAL SULPHATE'--Mr E. Herring.) The crushed bark is boiled in a solution of caustic soda or pota.s.sa, to extract colouring matter and gum; it is then pressed, washed with cold water, a second time boiled with a solution of caustic alkali, and again pressed, washed, and pressed; the decoloured and purified bark is next exhausted by coction with acidulated water, in the usual way, and the filtered mixed decoctions are precipitated with carbonate of soda; the precipitated quina is then dissolved in hot dilute sulphuric acid, to saturation, when the 'HOSPITAL SULPHATE' crystallises out as the solution cools; this is, lastly, washed with a little cold water, drained, and dried.--The advantage of this process is the non-use of animal charcoal as a bleacher, and the consequent less cost of the product. In the preparation of his 'WHITE SULPHATE,' Mr Herring uses benzol as a solvent, instead of alcohol. Patent dated July 28th, 1853.

_Prop._ When pure, sulphate of quinine forms very light, delicate, flexible, white needles, which are efflorescent, inodorous, and intensely bitter; it is soluble in 740 parts of water at 60, and in 30 parts at 212 Fahr.; it takes about 80 parts of cold rectified spirit for its solution, but is freely soluble in boiling alcohol and in acidulated water; it melts at 240 Fahr., and is charred and destroyed at a heat below that of redness. The crystals contain 761% of quinine, 87% of sulphuric acid, and 152% of water; of the last, they lose about 3-4ths by exposure to dry air, and nearly the whole when kept in a state of fusion for some time.

_Pur._ This may not be inferred from the form of its crystallisation, for the sulphates of quinidine and of cinchonidine may be obtained in the same form of crystallisation. As mentioned already, the reaction with chlorine and ammonia does not distinguish quinine from quinidine, as both give the same green colour. "It is entirely soluble in water (hot), and more readily so when an acid is present. Precipitated by ammonia, the residuary liquid, after evaporation, should not taste of sugar. By a gentle heat it loses 8% or 10% of water. It is wholly consumed by heat. If chlorine be first added, and then ammonia, it becomes green." (Ph. L. 1836.) "On adding chloride of barium to 100 gr. of this salt, dissolved in water mixed with hydrochloric acid, 266 gr. of sulphate of baryta, dried at a red heat, are prepared." (Ph. L. 1851.) "A solution of 10 gr., in 1 fl.

oz. of distilled water, and 2 or 3 drops of sulphuric acid, if decomposed by a solution of 1/2 oz. of carbonate of soda, in two waters, and heated until the precipitate shrinks and fuses, yields, on cooling, a solid ma.s.s, which, when dry, weighs 74 gr. and when reduced to powder, dissolves entirely in a solution of oxalic acid." (Ph. E.)

_Adult._ Sulphate of quinine is said to be often adulterated with starch, magnesia, gum, sugar, cinchonine, quinidine, &c.; but, according to De Vrij, those with starch, magnesia, gum, and sugar, are very rare if ever they were really observed. Very frequent are those with the sulphates of the other cinchona-alkaloids, and these become even still more frequent, as very different kinds of bark are used for the manufacture of quinine.

Salicin is, if ever, but very seldom used for adulteration of quinine. The best practical test for the purity of sulphate of quinine is the following:--A saturated solution of the salt is made at 60 Fahr., and one part of this solution is mixed with 2 or 3 minims of a concentrated solution of iodide of pota.s.sium, whilst another part is mixed with 2 or 3 minims of a concentrated solution of tartrate of potash and soda. If the sulphate of quinine is pure its solution will remain unaltered by both reagents, even after rubbing the sides of the test tube with a gla.s.s rod and standing many hours. But if it contains one or more of the other cinchona-alkaloids there will appear either precipitates or striae on the gla.s.s where it has been rubbed by the gla.s.s rod. Iodide of pota.s.sium indicates particularly the presence of even traces of quinidine, but also of cinchonidine and cinchonine, provided their quant.i.ty be not too small.

Tartrate of potash and soda indicate, under these circ.u.mstances, only the presence of cinchonidine. The first three remain undissolved when the salt is digested in spirit; the fourth is dissolved out by cold water; the fifth may be detected by its total insolubility in ether; or, by precipitating the quinine by solution of pota.s.sa, and dissolving the precipitate in boiling alcohol; cinchonine crystallises out as the solution cools, but the quinine remains in the mother liquor; and the last, by the greater solubility and sp. gr. of the salt, &c. If the sample disengages ammoniacal fumes when treated with liquor of pota.s.sa, it contains sal ammoniac. The presence of most foreign organic substances is also shown by the sample being turned brown, and being soon charred when treated with a drop of concentrated sulphuric acid. If it turn red it contains salicin, a substance which is now frequently used to adulterate sulphate of quinine. The pure sulphate is not discoloured by this reagent.

_Uses, &c._ The sulphate is more extensively employed than any of the other salts of quinine, and, indeed, to almost the exclusion of them. It is the article intended to be used whenever 'sulphate' or 'disulphate' of quinine, or even 'quinine,' is ordered for medicinal purposes, unless the name is qualified by some other term. It is a most valuable stomachic, in doses of 1/4 to 1 gr.; as a tonic, 1 to 3 gr.; and as a febrifuge, 2 to 20 gr.

=Quinine, Sulpho-tar'trate of.= _Syn._ QUINae SULPHO-TARTRAS, L. _Prep._ From sulphate of quinine, 4 parts; tartaric acid, 5 parts; distilled water, 20 parts; mix, gently evaporate to dryness, and powder the residuum.

=Quinine, Tan'nate of.= _Syn._ QUINae TANNAS, L. _Prep._ Dissolve sulphate of quinine in slightly acidulated water, and add a solution of tannic acid as long as a precipitate forms; wash this with a little cold water, and dry it. The Ph. Graeca orders infusion of galls to be used as the precipitant. In intermittent neuralgia.

=Quinine, Tar'trate of.= _Syn._ QUINae TARTRAS, L. _Prep._ (P. Cod.) From tartaric acid and quinine, as the acetate.

=Quinine, Vale"rianate of.= _Syn._ QUINae VALERIANAS (Ph. D.), L. _Prep._ 1. As the acetate or citrate.

2. (Ph. D.) Valerianate of soda, 124 gr., distilled water, 2 fl. oz.; dissolve; also dissolve hydrochlorate of quinine, 7 dr., in distilled water, 14 fl. oz.; next heat each solution to 120 (not higher), mix them, and set the vessel aside for 24 hours; lastly, press the ma.s.s of crystals thus obtained, and dry them, without the application of artificial heat.

_Prop., &c._ Silky needles and prisms; its solution suffers decomposition when heated much above 120 Fahr. It is powerfully antispasmodic, antiperiodic, and nervine.--_Dose_, 1/2 gr., every two hours, or 1 to 3 gr. twice or thrice daily; in epilepsy, hemicrania, hysteria, neuralgia, and other nervous affections.

=QUININE AND COD-LIVER OIL.= _Syn._ COD-LIVER OIL WITH QUININE, QUINIARETTED COD-LIVER OIL; OLEUM MORRHUae c.u.m QUINa, OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI c.u.m QUINa, L. This medicine is a solution of pure anhydrous quinine in pure cod-liver oil.

_Prep._ 1. Pure quinine (preferably recently precipitated) is fused in a gla.s.s or porcelain capsule by the heat of an oil or sand bath, carefully applied, by which it a.s.sumes a brown colour and the appearance of a resin; it is then allowed to cool out of contact with the air, after which it is reduced to powder in a dry mortar, and added to pure pale Newfoundland cod-liver oil, gently heated in a closed gla.s.s vessel over a water bath; the solution of the alkaloid is promoted by constant agitation, and, when complete, the vessel, still corked, is set aside in a dark situation to cool; when the 'quiniaretted oil' is quite cold it is put into bottles, in the usual manner, and preserved as much as possible from the light and air.

2. The anhydrous quinine is dissolved in a little anhydrous ether before adding it to the oil, which in this case need not be heated, as the union is effected by simple agitation; should this not take place, it may be gently warmed for a few minutes.

3. The anhydrous quinine is dissolved in anhydrous alcohol, and after being added to the oil, the whole is gently heated, in an open vessel, by the heat of a water bath, until the alcohol is expelled; agitation, &c., being had recourse to as in No. 1.

_Prop., &c._ The above preparation resembles ordinary cod-liver oil, except in having a pale yellowish colour and a slightly bitter taste, similar to that of cinchona bark. It is said to possess all the properties of cod-liver oil combined with those peculiar to quinine, by which the tonic, stomachic, and antiperiodic qualities of the latter are a.s.sociated, in one remedy, with the genial supporting, and alterative action of the other. The common strength is 2 gr. of quinine per oz.

=QUININE AND I'RON.= These two important medicinal agents are combined together in various ways. The following compound salts are often prescribed.

=Quinine and Iron, Cit'rate of.= _Syn._ CITRATE OF IRON AND QUININE; FERRI ET QUINae CITRAS, B. P. _Prep._ 1. (B. P.) Solution of persulphate of iron, 4-1/2; sulphate of quinia, 1; dilute sulphuric acid, 1-1/2; citric acid, 3; solution of ammonia and distilled water, of each a sufficiency; mix 8 of the solution of ammonia with 40 of the water, and to this add the solution of persulphate of iron, previously diluted with 40 of the water, stirring them constantly and briskly. Let the mixture stand for 2 hours, stirring it occasionally, then put it on a calico filter, and when the liquid has drained away, wash the precipitate with distilled water until that which pa.s.ses through the filter ceases to give a precipitate with chloride of barium. Mix the sulphate of quinia with 8 of the water, add the sulphuric acid, and when the salt is dissolved, precipitate the quinia with a slight excess of solution of ammonia. Collect the precipitate on a filter, and wash it with 30 of the water. Dissolve the citric acid in 5 of the water, and having applied the heat of a water bath, add the oxide of iron, previously well drained; stir them together, and when the oxalic acid has dissolved, add the precipitated quinia, continuing the agitation until this also has dissolved. Let the solution cool, then add, in small quant.i.ties at a time, 1-1/2 solution of ammonia, dilute with 2 of the water, stirring the solution briskly, and allowing the quinia which separates with each addition of ammonia to dissolve before the next addition is made. Filter the solution, evaporate it to the consistence of a thin syrup, then dry it in layers on flat porcelain or gla.s.s plates, at the temperature of 100 Fahr., remove the dry salt in flakes, and keep it in a stoppered bottle. Solubility, 2 in 1.--_Test._ Taste bitter as well as chalybeate. When burned with exposure to air, it leaves a residue (oxide of iron) which yields nothing to water. 50 gr., dissolved in an ounce of water, and treated with a slight excess of ammonia, gives a white precipitate (quinia) which, when collected on a filter and dried, weighs 8 gr. The precipitate is entirely soluble in pure ether, indicating absence of quinidia and cinchonia. When burned it leaves no residue. When dissolved by the aid of an acid it forms a solution which, after decolorisation by a little purified animal charcoal, turns the plane of polarisation strongly to the left (cinchona turns it to the right).--_Dose_, 5 to 10 gr. as a tonic, three times a day, in solution or in pill.