strychnin (strik'nin)

An alkaloid, C21H22- N2O2, obtained from the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica, occurring as small, four-sided prisms or rectangular octaedra or as a crystal lin powder, having neither color nor odor, but an exceedingly bitter and persistent taste. The nitrate and the sulphate are official in the U. S. Ph., the hydro chlorid in the Br. Ph. S. and its salts enter into a large number of preparations. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix, page 940. liquor solution strychninae a cet at is. of s. Each fluid ounce of Hall's this solution contains 1 gr. of s. acetate [N. F.]. liquor strychninae hydro chlorid i. This is a 1 per cent, solution of s. hydro chlorid [Br. Ph.]. Caution. The British solution is nearly 5 times as nin a. 1 as that of the N. F. [Lat., strychstrong strychnium (strik'ne-um). A univalent radicle, C21H23N2O2, bearing the same relation to strychnin that ammonium bears to ammonia.