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VEGETO-ALKALIES. 



DELPHININE. 



NARCEiNE. 



Carbon. 

 Hydrogen 

 Nitrogen. 

 Oxygen. 



100,00 



100.00 



Carbon. . 

 Hydrogen, 

 Nitrogen. 

 Oxygen. . 



PSEUDOMORPHINE. 



Pelletier. 

 . 52.74 



5.81 



4.08 

 . 37.37 



100.00 



VERATRINE. 



100.00 



SABAD1LLINE. 

 Couerbe. 



64.18 



6.88 



7.95 

 20.99 



100.00 



100.00 



SOLANINE. 

 Blanchet. 



62.11 

 8.92 

 1.64 



27.33 



100.00 



Carbon. 

 Hydrogen, 

 Nitrogen. 

 Oxygen. 



MENISPERMINE. STAPHISAINE. 



^ 



Couerbe. Dumas and Pellet. Pellet and Coutrbe. Couerbe. 



71.48 



7.67 



5.43 

 16.42 



100.00 



66.75 

 8.54 

 5.04 



19.60 



100.00 



100.00 



100.00 



MORPHIA AND THE OTHER BASES IN OPIUM. 



When incisions are made in the heads of the white poppy? 

 (Papaver somniferum] a milky juice exudes, which is allowed to 

 dry by evaporation on the plant, then scraped off and collected, 

 it forms opium. This drug has been minutely examined, and 

 several vegetable bases derived from it. Its narcotic and 

 anodyne properties are chiefly clue to morphine, which is also 

 the base that opium contains in largest proportion. 



Morphine or morphia, C 35 H 20 NO 6 . Much soluble matter is 

 extracted from opium when treated repeatedly in a divided 

 state with water. Most of the narcotine, however remains in 

 the residuum, from which it may be extracted by dilute 

 hydrochloric acid, or by boiling alcohol or ether. If the 



