An alkaloid from SOLANACEAE, especially DATURA and SCOPOLIA. Scopolamine and its quaternary derivatives act as antimuscarinics like ATROPINE, but may have more central nervous system effects. Its many uses include an anesthetic premedication, the treatment of URINARY INCONTINENCE and MOTION SICKNESS, an antispasmodic, and a mydriatic and cycloplegic.
    

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Apolomine and Apolomine Plus.

The resolution of hyoscine and its components, tropic acid and oscine / by Harold King.

The old vegetable neurotics : hemlock, opium, belladonna and henbane; their physiological action and therapeutical use, alone and in combination being the Gulstonian Lectures of 1868, extended and including a complete examination of the active constituents of opium / by John Harley.

The stereochemistry of hyoscine / by Harold King.

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Apolomine and Apolomine Plus.

The resolution of hyoscine and its components, tropic acid and oscine / by Harold King.

The old vegetable neurotics : hemlock, opium, belladonna and henbane; their physiological action and therapeutical use, alone and in combination being the Gulstonian Lectures of 1868, extended and including a complete examination of the active constituents of opium / by John Harley.

The stereochemistry of hyoscine / by Harold King.