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Strychnos Ignatia
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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- Gnatia, Egnatia or Ignatia (Gr****: Egnatia) was an ancient city of the Messapii, and their frontier town towards the Salentini. As Eg****a Ap****, it was...
- Menelaus regains Helen, detail of an Attic red-figure crater, c. 450–440 BC, found in Gnatia (now Eg****a, Italy)....
- resorts include Savelletri with its beaches, the archaeological digs at Gnatia and a golf course and the quaint fishing town of Torre Canne. The coast...
- statue A Roman mosaic A Roman bust The New Archaeological Museum of Ugento Gnatia Quintino Quagliati. Il Museo ****onale di Taranto. {{cite book}}: Unknown...
- Iapyges spread northwards from the Salento. The pre-Italic settlement of Gnatia was founded in the fifteenth century BC during the Bronze Age. It was captured...
- and continuing on to Constantinople (Istanbul). After the destruction of Gnatia by the Ostrogoth king Totila in 545, its inhabitants fled to Monopoli, from...
- Ignatia can refer to: Gnatia, a city of the Peucetii, a tribe in ancient Italy a feminine version of the given name Ignatius plants belonging to the species...
- Genusium/ager Genusinus, settlement/district Ginosa Genusus (modern Shkumbin) Gnatia, settlement - - Graiva - - Herdonia, settlement Ordona - Hydruntum, settlement...
- Apulia (Puglia, southern Italy) and former bishopric as Eg****a Ap****; now Gnatia (part of Fasano), and a Latin titular see Egnatia gens, an ancient Roman...
- Castellabate, Baiae, Gaiola, Ischia, Campi Flegrei, Pantelleria, Syracuse, Gnatia, Tremiti Islands, Manduria and Isola di Capo Rizzuto. Notable Italian lakes...