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
Footnotes
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).
Summary
Orders two bottles of chlorodyne and bottles and corks of various sizes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9699
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- OC 27 74
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9699,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9699.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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