Dec 29, 1894
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Abstract
Cupreine, methyl-cupreine (quinine), ethyl-cupreine, propyl-cupreine, and amyl-cupreine were all examined, the new basis being formed by introducing the various alcoholic radicals into the original alkaloid cupreine. Methyl-cupreine (quinine) was found to be about twice as poisonous as cupreine, which it closely resembles in action; ethyl-cupreine, again, is still more "toxic, and propyl-cupreine still more, the toxicity and