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Atropine   Listen
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Atropine  n.  (Chem.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.






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"Atropine" Quotes from Famous Books



... an emetic at once, and send for a physician with instructions to bring hypodermic syringe and atropine sulphate. The dose is 1/180 of a grain, and doses should be continued heroically until 1/20 of a grain is administered, or until, in the physician's opinion, a proper quantity has been injected. Where the victim ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... the tortuous corridors and up the oddly placed stairways of that old-world building. My anguish had reinforced the atropine which I had employed as an antidote to the opiate in the wine, and now my blood, that had coursed sluggishly, leapt through my veins like fire and I burned with ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer



Words linked to "Atropine" :   belladonna, counterpoison, antidote, antispasmodic, mydriatic, poisonous substance, antispasmodic agent, mydriatic drug, poison, alkaloid, toxicant, spasmolytic



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