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SECTION PAGES 
340. Physiological Action .......... 283, 284 
341. Fatal Dose ............ 284 
342. Post-mortem Appearances ......... 284 
343. Separation of Nicotine from Organic Matters ..... 2#4, 285 
344. Antidote to Nicotine .......... 285 
3. Piturie. 
345. Properties of Piturie—Identity with Nicotine ..... 285 
4. Sparteine. 
346. Properties of Sparteine—Scoparin—Effects on Animals . . . 285, 286 
5. Aniline. 
347. Properties of Aniline .......... 286 
348. Symptoms and Effects of Aniline ....... 286, 287 
349. Fatal Dose ............ 287 
350. Detection of Aniline .......... 287 
III. THE OPIUM GROUP OF ALKALOIDS. 
351. Enumeration of the Opium Alkaloids—Analyses of Various Kinds of 
Opium ............ 287, 288 
352. Action of Solvents on Opium ........ 288, 289 
353. Assay of Opium—British Pharmacopoeia Method .... 289, 290 
354. Medicinal and other Preparations—(1) Official; (2) Patent and 
other Non-official Preparations of Opium ..... 290-293 
355. Statistics of Opium Poisoning ........ 293 
356. Poisoning of Children by Opium ....... 293 
357. Doses of Opium and Morphia—Fatal Dose ..... 293, 294 
358. General Method for the Detection of Opium—Action of Volatile 
Solvents ............ 294, 295 
359. Morphine—Properties—Sublimation of Morphine .... 295, 296 
360. Morphine Salts—Morphine Meconate, Hydrochloride, Acetate, Tar¬ 
trate, Sulphate .......... 296, 297 
361. Constitution of Morphine and Codeine ...... 297, 298 
362. Tests for Morphine—Action of Ammonium Molybdate—Action of 
Ferric Chloride—Robert’s Test—Iodic Acid Test—Lloyd’s Test— 
Vanadic Acid Test—Tungstic Acid Test—Titanic Acid Test— 
Radelescu’s Reaction—Other Reactions ...... 299-302 
363. Action on Animal Life—Frogs, Dogs, Cats and the Felidae, Birds . 302, 303 
364. Physiological Action .......... 304 
365. Physiological Effect of Morphine Derivatives ..... 304, 305 
366. Action on Man—The Common Form—The Sudden Form—The Con¬ 
vulsive Form of Poisoning ........ 305-308 
367. Diagnosis of Opium Poisoning ........ 308, 309 
368. Opium Eating—Opium Smoking ....... 309-311 
369. Treatment of Opium or Morphine Poisoning . . . . . 311 
370. Post-mortem Appearances . . . . . . . . . 311 
371. Separation of Morphine from Animal Tissues and Fluids . . . 312, 313 
372. Extraction of Morphine from Urine ....... 313, 314 
373. Narcotine—Behaviour of Narcotine with Reagents—Constitution of 
Narcotine ........... 314, 315 
374. Effects of Narcotine . . . . . . . . . . 316 
375. Codeine—Properties—Tests . . . . • • • • 316, 317 
376. Effects of Codeine .......... 317, 318 
377. Narceine—Constitution—Properties—Sublimation of—Tests . . 318, 319 
378. Effects of Narceine . . . . . . . . • . 319 
379. Papaverine—Properties—Reactions—Constitution .... 319, 320 
380. Effects of Papaverine .......... 320 
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