The animal alkaloids cadaveric and vital or, the ptomaines and leucomaines : chemically, physiologically and pathologically considered in relation to scientific medicine / by A. M. Brown.

  • Brown, A. M.
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1889
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    body is more abundant. “Is that neurine always accompanied with another alkaloid which reagents separate with difficulty ? ” was a question which they left unsolved; the small quantity, however, deprived It of any toxological Importance. It ought to be noted that the preceding authors had neglected the extractive matters of normal muscular flesh formerly examined by Liebig. In 1883, Professors Guareschi and Mosso resumed its study from the special point of view which now engages our attention. In their Interesting work, these last authors state they had obtained directly from veal methylhydantoine, a body apparently of the uride family, and intermediary between the kreatinine, sarkine, and urea; but that they had not found alkaloids properly so called. Such was the conclusion reached In one of the most conscientious memoirs, which had been published with a view to the elucidation of this question of the production, and presence or absence, of alkaloids in the living animal tis- sues. It now remains to note, not the pre- liminary experimental efforts and hypotheses suggested by Armand Gautier In 1881, but the positive results which this eminent Investi- gator has arrived at by a course of continuous