Having thoroughly triturated the hyoscine hydrobromide with the sugar, add spirit of cinnamon and the carmine, and triturate again until the color is perfectly uniform.
Other salts of Hyoscine are not described because used substantially as the above.
As I have shown, no one can possibly tell the difference between hyoscine and scopolamine, even by chemical analysis.
Rusby was of the opinion that scopolamine is really a mixture of hyoscine, hyoscyamine, and atropine: one-tenth hyoscine and nine-tenths hyoscyamine and atropine.
Polak holds that the solutions of the drugs must be absolutely pure, and that hyoscine cannot be substituted for scopolamine, but that narcophin is no better than morphine: the American preparations have produced delirium.
Some of the largest drug-houses in Germany before the war supplied hyoscine and scopolamine from the same stock bottle--the name depended on the asker.
The chief action of scopolamine orhyoscine is upon the cerebral cortex, producing sleep, which is accompanied often by a low delirium.
As the leaves of Scopolia are used to adulterate the belladonna leaves from which atropine is derived, hyoscine and scopolamine are substituted for each other--if, indeed, there is an any real difference between them.
Ladenburg's hyoscine accompanies hyoscyamine, and is an isomeride of both atropine and hyoscyamine; its chemical reactions are similar to those of hyoscyamine, as well as its physiological effects.
Atropine, hyoscyamine, and hyoscine have all the same formula, but differ in their molecular constitution.
A sample of commercial hyoscine hydrobromide Nagelvoort found to melt, water-free, at 198 deg.
By boiling hyoscine hydrochloride with animal charcoal, and then precipitating with auric chloride, a good crystalline compound, melting at 198 deg.
Pure hyoscine gold chloride is stated to melt at 198 deg.
Ladenburg,[513] in answer to Schmidt, asserts thathyoscine exists, and is not identical with scopolamine.
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