In 1803 Derosne discovered narcotine and morphine, but he neither recognised the difference between these two substances, nor their basic properties.
Narceine may be separated from narcotine by the addition of ammonia to the acid aqueous solution; narcotine is fully precipitated by ammonia, but narceine is left in solution.
Narcotine gives no crystalline sublimate; its behaviour in the subliming cell is described at p.
Morphine and narcotine are those which, alone, are toxicologically important.
Fixed Alkalies=, in excess, dissolve in part resin; they also dissolve morphine freely; narcotine remains insoluble.
Lime Water= dissolves morphine, but is a solvent for narcotine only in presence of morphine.
Narcotine in itself has toxic action only in rather large doses; from 1 to 2 grms.
The neutral solution ofnarcotine turns the plane of polarisation to the left [[alpha]]r = 130.
A solution of narcotine in pure sulphuric acid, to which a drop of nitric acid has been added, becomes of a red colour; if the solution is warmed to 150 deg.
The solubility of free narcotine in water is extremely small.
Narcotine is distinguished from morphia by its insipidity, solubility in ether, insolubility in alkalies, giving an orange tint to nitric acid, and a greasy stain to paper when heated on it over a candle.
By the process for the manufacture of this tincture, which is now official in the United States Pharmacopeia, most of the narcotine is found in the finished preparation.
Hare has no doubt, was narcotine in an impure state.
Thinking it important to ascertain whether, by the removal of narcotine from opium, the unpleasant effects which, according to the opinions at present entertained upon that subject, are produced by that drug would be removed, Dr.
Crystals of narcotine will be obtained as the solution cools.
The supernatant liquid thus freed from narcotinebeing decanted off, is to be treated with caustic ammonia; and the precipitate thrown upon a filter.
After some time, some narcotine will be found crystallized at the bottom.
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