If the eggs are then taken out of the saponin solution, freed from all traces of saponin by repeated washing in normal sea-water, and transferred to the hypertonic sea-water for from 35 to 55 minutes, they develop into larvae.
If we put unfertilised eggs of a sea-urchin into sea-water which contains a trace of saponin we notice that, after a few minutes, all the eggs form the typical membrane of fertilisation.
It may be readily distinguished from saponin by treating a watery solution with sulphuric or hydrochloric acid.
In one of my own experiments, in a cat poisoned with a subcutaneous dose of saponin (.
Saponin is a white amorphous powder, very soluble in water, to which it gives the curious property of frothing just like soap solution.
The author has studied the general action of saponin on kittens, insects, and infusoria.
The time after death at which it is probable that saponin could be detected is unknown; it is a substance easily decomposed, and, therefore, success in separating it from highly putrid matters is not probable.
The insoluble saponin remaining is dissolved in the least possible quantity of water, and precipitated with absolute alcohol.
The process essentially consists in extracting with hot spirit, allowing the saponin to separate as the spirit cools, collecting the precipitate on a filter, drying, dissolving in cold water, and precipitating with absolute alcohol.
The action of saponin when applied in concentrated solution to flies is that of an intense irritant.
If saponinis boiled with dilute acid it breaks up into sapogenin and sugar, and therefore the liquid after neutralisation reduces "Fehling.
The organ best to examine for saponin is the kidney.
A solution of saponin exposed to the air gets turbid, and develops carbon dioxide; not unfrequently the solution becomes mouldy.
Saponin is separated from bread, flour, and similar substances by the process given at p.
Saponin is neutral in reaction, it has no odour, but causes sneezing if applied to the mucous membrane of the nose; the taste is at first sweet, and then sharp and acrid.
In a patient who took a poisonous quantity of Saponin at Saint Petersburg all the muscular contractile sensitiveness was completely abolished; whilst, nevertheless, all the bodily functions were normally performed.
Saponin is likewise found in the nuts of the Horse-chestnut tree, and in the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Saponin is found again in the root and unripe seeds of the Corn Cockle, and in all parts of the Nottingham Catch-fly except the seeds; also in the wild Lychnis, and some others of the Pink tribe.
This drug contains a saponin and an acrid, irritant resin.
It is true that Boehm whom Hartung cites, found saponin to be irritating, but Boehm states that it required 100 mg.
Furthermore, saponinis present in traces only in infusion of digitalis, so that the therapeutic dose contains a wholly negligible amount of it.
In frog nerve muscle preparations of thissaponin reversibly interrupt stimulus transmission; recovery occurs upon washing.
It is a significant fact that all the groups above named containing saponin belong to Heckel's middle division.
The list[42] of plants in which saponin has been discovered is given in the note.
It may be suggested that saponin is thus a constructive element in developing the plant from the multiplicity of floral elements to the cephalization of those organs.
The presence of saponin seems essential to the life of the plant where it is found, and it is an indispensable principle in the progression of certain lines of plants, passing from their lower to their higher stages.
I have discoveredsaponin in all parts of the Yucca angustifolia, in the Y.
Saponin is invariably absent where the floral elements are simple; it is invariably absent where the floral elements are condensed to their greatest extent.
No plants containing saponin have been found among apetalous groups.
No plants have been found containing saponin among the lower monocotyledons.
Saponin is found in both of these plants, as well as in many other plants of the leguminosæ.
The plane of saponin passes from the liliaceæ and allied groups to the rosales and higher dicotyledons.
The botanical classifications based upon morphology are so frequently Saponin is found in endogens and exogens.
The solvent action of saponin on resins has been already discussed.
The simpler compounds of which this complex substance is built up, if located as compounds of lower plants, would indicate the lines of progression from the lower to the saponin groups.
My own study has been directed toward the discovery of saponin in those plants where it was presumably to be found.
Saponin belongs to a class of substances called glucosides.
As saponin is very soluble in water, by soaking the shredded beans for a few days the blacks resort to an absolutely perfect method of converting a poisonous substance into a valuable and sustaining, if tasteless, food.
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