[16] Nitrogen was found very readily by the soda lime test in the tar
left after extracting the original material with 50 per cent. alcohol,
but was not found by the Lassaign test.
[17] Stevens. Amer. Jour. Pharm. 77, 255, June, 1905.
[18] Whenever it is stated in this paper that a solution was poisonous
or not poisonous, the test was made by the writer upon himself.
[19] Liebig's Annalen, CXI, p. 215.
[20] Ueber Mategerbstoff, p. 20.
[21] Bull. Soc. Chim. (II), Vol. 2, 95 (1864).
[22] Berichte 19, 1735 (1886).
[23] Jour. Chem. Soc. 71, 1194 (1897).
[24] Berichte 19, 1740.
[25] Ibid. 1747; Annalen, 112, 97.
[26] Biochem. Pflan. II, 521.
[27] Ann. de Chim. et de Phys., 6th Series, XXII, 76 (1891).
[28] Treatise on Chem., Vol. III, Pt. III, 492.
[29] Les Sucres; Chem. der Zuck.; Biochem. der Pflan.
[30] Chem. Zeit. 23, Rep. 177.
[31] Loc. cit. 1, 209.
[32] On standing several weeks, a small quantity of tar separated out on
the walls of the vessel, also a brown precipitate which was filtered
off, suspended in water, and hydrogen sulphide was being passed in when
an accident occurred and it was lost.
[33] "By warming with alkalies or barium hydroxide, rhamnose is colored
yellow." Chem. der Zuck. I, 177.
[34] Ibid. 188.
[35] Ibid.
[36] Rayman, Sur L'Isodulcite, _Bull. Soc. Chim._ 47, 668 (1887).
[37] Acides Gummiques.
[38] Berichte XX, pp. 1089, 1091, 1188, 2566.
[39] Ann. de Chim. et de Phys. (6) XXII, 93 (1891).
[40] Biochem. der Pflan. I, 210.
[41] Comptes rendus CXV, 892.
[42] Amer. Chem. Jour. 28, 370.
[43] Amer. Jour. Pharm. 77, 255 (June, 1905); 78, 53 (Feb., 1906).
[44] A wax obtained from _Rhus succedanea_ was shown by Stahmer to
contain palmitic acid and glycerol in the form of glycerol palmitate.
_Annalen_ 43, 343, (1842).
[45] See Amer. Jour. Pharm. 77, 256.
[46] This section is added in the hope that it may be of use to others
who are subject to this form of poisoning.
[47] Moor, N. Y. Med. Rec. 45 (1894), 200.
[48] Bull. No. 26, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. of Bot. 47.
[49] Lacerda, Comptes rendus 93 (1881) 466-469.
[50] Amer. Jour. Med. Sci. 52 (1866), 285.