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the yellow precipitate, formed by adding phosphomolybdic 
7 ‘acid to’ solutions of aconitine, should dissolve in a few drops’ 
_ of ammonia without any blue coloration.. 
18. Pare aconitine yields - no colour. reactions, and those 
for rmerly suggested were due to impurities. 
_ .14, Httbschmann’s napelline is no distinct alkaloid, bat ‘= 
_ variable mixture of aconitine and aconine. 
_ 15. Acolyctine and lycoctonine are not identical with ee 
_(pseudo-aconine}. (See chemical comp. of A. Lycoctonum.) 
_ 16. Aconitine and pseudo-aconitine do not split up in the 
' animal organism, anes ption and ejection. taking ee very 
quickly. 
17. Owing to its ae its ready decomposition, and 
the absence of delicate characteristic tests, the post-mortem 
detection of aconitine as such is very difficult, the symptoms _ 
and the consaties of the intern! ween are oe to "be relied - 
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4 Piccology. eueoeda on tae. settonty of Wailich, hens 
tions that the Burmese, during their retreat before the 
‘British, threw bruised aconite root into a water tank in the 
hope of poisoning the troops pursuing them. The Aka hill 
tribes on the frontier of Assam make use of a paste made. of 
Aconite root to poison their arrows. Some of these arrows and 
‘the root from which the poison was reported to be obtained 
weye forwarded to the Chemical Analyser, Bengal, in 1884, for 
examination. Some of the arrowheads were made of j iron, others . 
of bamboo; they werecovered with a dark brown adhesive mass 
which gave the flat heads an oval contour, and this material was 
applied for a distance of nearly two inches down the shaft below 
the barb. The adhesive material proved to be aconite, and the 
the ‘ species could not to be determined. The coarsely powdered. 
rubb ed up with water formed an adhesive’ mucilaginous 
i | ey like the material found on the arrow | 
n that the root contains sufliciont in 
root stated to be the source of-the poison was also aconite, but. 
