Excerpt from Year-Book of Pharmacy, Vol. 1: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journals, From July 1, 1880, to June 30, 1881; With the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference at the Eighteenth Annual Me Messrs. E. Harnack and H. Meyer claim to have established the presence of a second alkaloid in jaborandi and in commercial pilo carpine. This new base, which they propose to call jaborine, is said to differ from pilocarpine in its behaviour towards solvents and in its physiological action. Their formula for pilocarpine. 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.