CONTENTS. 
5. Gelsemine. 
SECTION 
418. Gelsemine and Gelseminine—Characters and Tests 
419. Fatal Dose ......... 
420. Effects on Animals—Physiological Action .... 
421. Effects on Man ......... 
422. Extraction from Organic Matters or the Tissues of the Body 
6. Coca Alkaloids — Cocaine. 
423. List of Alkaloids in the Leaves of Erythroxylon coca —Constitution of 
Cocaine .... ...... 
424. Cocaine Hydrochloride ... ..... 
425. Pharmaceutical Preparations ........ 
426. Separation of Cocaine, and Tests—B.P. Tests for Cocaine Hydro¬ 
chloride ............ 
427. Symptoms of Cocaine Poisoning—The Billie Carleton Case 
428. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 
429. Fatal Dose—Derivatives of Cocaine—Eucaine A and B—Tropa- 
cocaine—Euphthalmin—Acoin—Holocaine—Novocaine—Alypin— 
Stovaine—Eccaine—Ecgonin ....... 
7. Corydaline. 
430. The Alkaloids of the Corydalis cava —Corydaline—Characters and Tests 
—Formula of Corydaline ........ 
V. THE ACONITE GROUP OF ALKALOIDS. 
431. Botanical Characters of Aconitum napellus. . 
432. Pharmaceutical Preparations . . . . . . . 
433. The Two Groups of Alkaloids in Aconite Plants — The Division of 
Aconitines into (1) Aconitines and (2) Pseudaconitines—Melting- 
point of the various Alkaloids and Melting-point of the Gold Salts 
434. Aconitine — B.P. Method for separating the Alkaloid from Aconite 
Root — Official Tests for Aconitine ...... 
435. Tests for Aconitine ........ 
436. Benzoyl-Aconine — Separation and Tests ...... 
437. The Lethal Dose of Aconitines ........ 
438. Effect of Aconitine on Animal Life : Insects, Fish, Reptiles, Frogs — 
Action of Aconite on the Heart — Birds — Mammals .... 
439. Statistics of Aconite Poisoning ........ 
440. Poisoning by the Root ......... 
441. Poisoning by the Alkaloid Aconitine — Dr Meyer’s Case 
442. The Lamson Case .......... 
443. Poisoning by the Medicinal Preparations of Aconite .... 
444. Physiological Action .......... 
445. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 
446. Separation of Aconitine from the Contents of the Stomach or the 
Organs—Life Tests .......... 
VI. THE MYDRIATIC GROUP OF ALKALOIDS : ATROPINE—HYOSCYAMINE 
SOLANINE—CYTISINE. 
447. Alkaloids of the Solanaceae. 
448. Atropine (Daturine)—Description of the Atropa belladonna —Alka- 
loidal Content of various Parts of the Plant ..... 
449. The Datura stramonium —Prevalence in India of Datura Poisoning— 
Distinction between the Seeds of Capsicum and those of Datura . 
450. Pharmaceutical Preparations : (a) Belladonna Leaves—Dry Extract 
of Belladonna—Tincture of Belladonna ; (6) Belladonna Root— 
Plaster—Liniment—Suppositories—Ointment; (c) The Alkaloid ; 
(d) Stramonium .......... 
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