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from The Century Dictionary.

noun An amorphous, very poisonous alkaloid, C₂₄H₂₈O₄N₂ or C₂₂H₂₆O₃N₂. It is found with gelsemine in Gelsemium sempervirens.

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The active principle, gelseminine, is much used latterly by a certain school of practitioners at the North and West, with other substances of similar nomenclature.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

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