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The history of the organic bases has now become as ardent an object of study among chemists as that of the as yet far more numerous group of acids; and it is generally admitted that the information obtained has been no less important and interesting. Of all organic alkaloids, those of opium and the cinchona barks doubtless occupy the first rank, whether we regard their value as remedial agents, or the remarkable facts which have been ascertained connected with their atomic relations, and the influence exerted by the latter, upon the theory of the science.
page 309 note * Chemical Gazette, vol. iii., p. 251, 1845. Proceedings of Chem. Soc, April 7, 1845.
page 310 note * Liebig's Annalen, Bd. 52, p. 130.
page 311 note * I have inserted the centigrade degrees (in round numbers), for convenience of those accustomed to that scale.
page 312 note * Trans. Royal Soc. Edin., vol. xvi., part iv.
page 312 note † Quart. Jour. Chem. Soc, Lond., July 1854.
page 312 note ‡ Phil. Mag., September 1854.
page 314 note * It was probably a salt analogous to the bases of Reiset or Gros, mixed with some impurity.
page 316 note * Trans. Royal Soc. Edin., vol. xx., part ii.
page 316 note † Quart. Journ. Chem. Soc. Lond., 1854.
page 317 note * Trans. Royal Soc. Edin., vol. xxi., part i.
page 321 note * From λεποϛ.