Commercial veratrine is a mixture of alkaloids, and has usually fairly constant properties, one of which is its intense irritant action on the nostrils.
A dark green colour, followed by reddish purple and blue colours, is obtained by adding a sprinkling of finely-powdered sugar to a solution of veratrine in sulphuric acid.
Commercial veratrine strikes a pink-red colour with hydrochloric acid in the cold if a long time is allowed to elapse, but it at once appears if the acid is warmed, and is permanent.
Concentrated hydrochloric acid dissolves veratrinewithout the production of colour, but, with careful warming, it becomes beautifully red.
If a small quantity of commercial veratrine is added to melted oxalic acid and the warming continued, a blood-red colour is obtained.
Casper relates the poisoning of a whole family by veratrum; from the stomach of the mother (who died) and the remains of the repast (a porridge of lentils) veratrine was separated.
Only when in contact with air does the analogy to veratrine obtain, and Deleziniere, to ascertain its reactions, studied it when in an atmosphere of nitrogen.
Used as a friction in rheumatism, and the other cases in which veratrine is employed.
Veratrine is distinguished from brucine and the other alkaloids by its fusibility--by the crystalline form of its precipitate with potassa, and--by its reaction with oil of vitriol.
Veratrine (4%) in expressed oil of almond and benzoinated lard.
It was sent by the same person who stole in Barrios's office and shot him with an asphyxiating pistol which discharged a fatal quantity of pure veratrine full at him.
It was the levo-rotary veratrine of the fatal death camas which you used, Page," concluded Craig, as again the electric attachment clicked shut the lock on the laboratory door.
For instance, there is the veratrine that may be derived from the sabadilla seeds which grow in the West Indies and Mexico.
If it were veratrine derived from death camas it would point toward Page.
The seven leaves on which drops of veratrine had been left for 26 hrs.
When inhaled, the powder causes violent sneezing, similar to that produced by veratrine itself, which is, as already stated, a constituent of the corm.
This is accelerated by a marked depressant action upon the heart, similar to that produced by veratrine and aconite.
This latter is the preparation still most generally used, though the presence of veratrineboth in the corm and the seeds renders the use of colchicine itself theoretically preferable.
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