Trop a cocaine Hydro chlorate Merck

Benzoyl-Pseudo trop eine Hydro chlorate. —Colorl. cryst.— Sol. in water.—Succedaneum for Cocaine. According to Drs. Vamo y, Chad bourne, and others, trop a cocaine is not half as toxic as cocaine. Anesthesia from it sets in more rapidly and lasts longer than with cocaine. It causes much le hyperemia than does cocaine. Mydriasis does not always occur, and when it does, is much le than with cocaine. The activity of its solution is retained for two to three months. Trop a cocaine may replace cocaine in every case as an anesthetic.— Applied in 3% solut., usually in 0.6% sodium-chloride solut.—[Further information in "Merck's Digest" on " Trop a cocaine ", containing clinical reports.]