Word: pharmacopeia
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant and antidote in medicine. The effects of strychnine have long been unpredictable, even when the drug is manufactured strictly according to the U. S. Pharmacopeia. After diligent tests on rats, manufacturing druggists gave up hope of producing an utterly reliable strychnine. But Professor Viehoever tried many brands of the drug on Daphnia and in every instance he produced identical convulsions, paralysis, death. Good strychnine, he concluded, is invariable. The trouble lies with the people, animals...