An alkaloid found in the seeds of STRYCHNOS NUX-VOMICA. It is a competitive antagonist at glycine receptors and thus a convulsant. It has been used as an analeptic, in the treatment of nonketotic hyperglycinemia and sleep apnea, and as a rat poison.
    

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A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

Granoxyl : thérapeutique reconstituante et reminéralisante.

Byno-Hypophosphites : an ideal tonic in nervous prostration and overstrain : May 1908.

Strychnine

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Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

Byno-Hypophosphites : an ideal tonic in nervous prostration and overstrain : May 1905.

'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : February 1926, March 1926, April 1926.

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

'Byno' Hypophosphites : "one of the most popular tonics of the day." B.M.J. : August 1913.