Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poisonous alkaloid found in the thorn-apple. See
Datura . Same asatropin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Atropine; -- called also
daturia anddaturina .
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- noun organic chemistry, archaic
atropine - noun organic chemistry, archaic
hyoscyamine
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is true that Schmidt had received pure atropine under the name of daturine, for I have proved most conclusively that the so-called daturine supplied by Trommsdorff, of Erfurt, is pure atropine and nothing else.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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I also tried in the same manner the alkaloid sold as daturine, which is believed not to differ from atropine, and it produced no effect.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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I thought it as well, therefore, to recommence the study of daturine, the more so as I had already determined the incorrectness of the long accepted point of fusion of atropine, and that my researches on hyoscyamine convinced me that this base is an isomer of atropine, although very analogous to it.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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This eminent manufacturer was good enough to comply with my request, and sent me two products, one of which was marked "light daturine," the other
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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I have succeeded in splitting up "heavy daturine" by two different methods.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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I have also shown that Merck's daturine differs from atropine, and is merely pure hyoscyamine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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The "heavy daturine," of which only a small quantity is obtainable, is far from being a body of definite composition, that is to say, it is a mixture of atropine and hyoscyamine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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Planta has already tried to show that atropine is identical with the daturine obtained by Geiger and Hesse, founding his opinion on facts which we nowadays look upon as doubtful.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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A short time afterward there appeared a paper by Schmidt which again asserted the identity of daturine and atropine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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I need only mention that slight poisonings by means of chloroform, morphine, atropine, daturine, decrease, and that strychnine increases the sensitivity of the touch organ.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
slumry commented on the word daturine
a poisonous alkaloid, also called atropine
August 1, 2007