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Hyoscyamine n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

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Etymology of 'Hyoscyamine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... wasps. There was an imposing array of metallic poisons such as arsenic, mercury, and bismuth. There were the commoner corrosives—nitric, hydrochloric, phosphoric, and sulphuric acid. And there were the poisons distilled or extracted from various sources, among which were strychnine, formic acid, hyoscyamine, and belladonna. ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... three grains; Caulophyllin, three grains; Macrotin, three grains; Hyoscyamine, three grains. Make twenty pills. ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

Words linked to "Hyoscyamine" : alkaloid, poison, poisonous substance