Excerpt from Year-Book of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journals, From July 1, 1906, to June 30, 1907; With the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference Aconitine, New Reaction of. N; M o n t i. (gaz. Chim. Ital. Repertoire 18, From 0-0002 to 0001 Gm. Of the alkaloid is mixed with 2 to 4 drops of hzso4 (sp. Gr. 1-75) and warmed for 5 minutes on the water bath. A crystal of resorcin about equal in weight to the aconitine taken is then added and heating continued. The liquid becomes at first yellowish red then red-violet, which acquires its maximum in tensity in about 20 minutes and is very stable. N 0 other alka loid has been found to give a similar reaction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.