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SECTION PACES 
492. Fatal Dose ............ 414 
493. Effects on Animals—Physiological Action . . . . . 414,415 
494. Effects on Man ........... 415 
495. General Course of Symptoms . . . . . . . . 415, 416 
496. Post-mortem Appearances . . . . . . . . . 416 
497. Separation from Organic Matters . . . . . . . 416 
VIII. PHYSOSTIGMINE. 
498. Botanical Characters of the Calabar Bean—Calabar Bean Alkaloids . 416, 417 
499. Physostigmine or Eserine—Properties and Reactions . . . 417, 418 
500. Constitution of Eserine—Eseroline—Eserine Blue—Eserine Sulphate 418, 419 
501. Tests for Eserine .......... 419, 420 
502. Pharmaceutical Preparations ........ 420 
503. Effects on Animals—Effects on Man ....... 420, 421 
504. Physiological Action . . . . . . . . . .421, 422 
505. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 422 
506. Separation of Physostigmine ........ 422 
507. Fatal Dose of Physostigmine ........ 422, 423 
IX. PILOCARPINE. 
508. Alkaloids of the Jaborandi......... 423 
509. Pilocarpine—Pharmaceutical Preparations ..... 423 
510. Tests ............. 423, 424 
511. Effects of Pilocarpine—Isopilocarpine—Pilocarpidine . . . 424, 425 
X. TAXINE. 
512. Properties of Taxine—Taxine Salts ....... 425 
513. Poisoning by Yew .......... 425, 426 
514. Effects on Animals—Physiological Action ...... 426 
515. Effects on Man ........... 426 
516. Post-mortem Appearances. 426, 427 
XI. CURARE ALKALOIDS. 
517. The Alkaloids in Commercial Curare—Tubo-curarine—Curine—Pot 
Curare—Properties of Crystalline Curare ..... 427, 428 
518. Physiological Effects .......... 428, 429 
519. Separation of Curarine ......... 429 
XII. COLCHICINE. 
520. Alkaloid Content of the Meadow Saffron ...... 430 
521. Extraction of Colchicine—Properties and Reactions .... 430, 431 
522. Tests. 431 
523. Pharmaceutical Preparations of Colchicum—Quack and Patent 
Medicines ........... 431, 432 
524. Fatal Dose ............ 432 
525. Effects of Colchicine on Animals ....... 432 
526. Effects of Colchicine on Man—The Case of Margaret Wilson—Death 
from Gout Pills .......... 433, 434 
527. Symptoms—Post-mortem Appearances ...... 434 
528. Separation of Colchicine from Organic Matters ..... 434 , 435 
