Pilocarpine and the alkaloids of jaborandi leaves / by Hooper Albert Dickinson Jowett.
- Jowett, H. A. D. (Hooper Albert Dickinson)
- Date:
- [1900?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Pilocarpine and the alkaloids of jaborandi leaves / by Hooper Albert Dickinson Jowett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![effects on the secretory activity of the sweat and salivary glands, pilocarpine being much the most powerful. Isopilocarpine is com- paratively less depressant to the hearts of rabbits, but not to those of cats or man. The jaborine of Merck possesses a mild pilocarpine effect. Having finished the characterisation of this group of alkaloids and repeated the work previously done on the subject, I am now engaged on experiments dealing with the constitution of pilocarpine, and hope soon to be in a position to communicate the results to the Society. The Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories. ERRATA. Page 481, Line 10 from top, reading : aD = + o.6° ; l = 1 dcm. ; c - 2.8376 ; [a]D = + 21.150, should be brought under the following line instead of above it: (5) Boiled with excess of caustic soda for 10 minutes. Page 484, Line 9 from top, for Pilocarpidine read Pilocarpine. RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30597493_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
