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Definition of strychnia

Strychnia
Strychnia Strych"ni*a, n. [NL. See Strychnine.] (Chem.) Strychnine.
strychnia
Strychnine Strych"nine, n. [L. strychnos a kind of nightshade, Gr. ?: cf. F. strychnine.] (Chem.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiace[ae], as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

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- Galpin: 10–12. Reports of Trials for Murder by Poisoning; by Prussic Acid, Strychnia, Antimony, ****nic, and Aconita. Including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer...
- reading for an examination, and feeling "run down". I took 10 minims of strychnia solution (B.P.) with the same quantity of dilute phosphoric acid well...
- angina pectoris, and he introduced the bromides of quinine, iron and strychnia, ozonized ether, styptic and iodized colloid, hydrogen peroxide, and sodium...
- relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 1848 On poisoning by strychnia, with comments on the medical evidence at the trial of William Palmer...
- paper to the British ****ociation poisoned arrows. He demonstrated that strychnia and wourali have the property of reciprocally neutralising the toxic effects...