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POISONS : THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION. 
SECTION PAGES 
451. Properties of Atropine—Tropic Acid—Tropine ..... 387, 388 
452. Homatropine ........... 388 
453. Tests—Vitali’s Test—The Effect of a Mixture of other Alkaloids with 
Atropine—Effect of Atropine on the Iris ..... 389-391 
454. Statistics of Atropine Poisoning . . . . . . . .391, 392 
455. Accidental and Criminal Poisoning by Atropine ..... 392, 393 
456. Fatal Dose ............ 393 
457. Action on Animals .......... 393, 394 
458. Action on Man—Chronic Poisoning ....... 394-396 
459. Physiological Action of Atropine—Action on the Heart . . . 396, 397 
460. Diagnosis ............ 397 
461. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 397 
462. Treatment ............ 397, 398 
463. Separation of Atropine from Organic Tissues, etc. 398 
1. Hyoscyamine. 
464. Sources of Hyoscyamine, and Alkaloidal Content of Seeds, Stalk, 
Leaves, and Root .......... 398-400 
465. Pharmaceutical and other Preparations of Henbane—Extract— 
Tincture—Oil ........... 401 
466. Dose and Effects . . . . . . . . . .401, 402 
467. Separation of Hyoscyamine from Organic Matters .... 402 
2. Scopolamine. 
468. Properties of Scopolamine—Effects and Tests ..... 402, 403 
469. Pseudohyoscyamine . . . . . . . . . _ . 403 
470. Atropamine ........... 403 
471. Belladonnine ........... 403 
472. Nor-hyoscyamine—Melting-point of the Oxalates of the Atropine 
Alkaloids ........... 403,404 
3. Solanine. 
473. Distribution of Solanine ......... 404 
474. Properties of Solanine ........ 405 
475. Solanidine ............ 405 
476. Poisoning from Solanine ......... 405, 406 
477. Separation of Solanine from the Tissues of the Body .... 406 
4. Cytisine. 
478. The Cytisus laburnum —Cytisine—Cytisine Salts .... 406, 407 
479. Reactions of Cytisine—V. d. Moer’s Reaction ..... 407, 408 
480. Effects on Animals .......... 408 
481. Effects on Man ........... 408, 409 
VII. THE ALKALOIDS OF THE VERATRUMS. 
482. The Veratrum Alkaloids—Jervine—Pseudo-jervine—Rubi-jervine— 
Veratralbine — Veratrine—Cevadine—Protoveratrine . . . 409, 410 
483. Veratridine — Cevadine . . . . . . . . . 411, 412 
484. Jervine ............ 412 
485. Pseudo-jervine . . . . . , . . . . . 412 
486. Proto veratridine . . . . . . . . . .412, 413 
487. Rubi-jervine . . . . . . . . . . . 413 
488. Veratralbine . . . . . . . . . . . 413 
489. Vcratroidine . . . . . . . . . . . 413 
490. Commercial Veratrine ......... 413, 414 
491. Pharmaceutical Preparations ........ 414 
