Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1907, Vol. 79: Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Since Gerock first isolated strychnine from the total alkaloids of nux vomica by nitrating the brucine, numerous methods have been suggested whereby the alkaloidal nature of the brucine may be totally destroyed without affecting the strychnine. Divergent Opinions on the accuracy of the various processes have been ex pressed and much controversy has ensued.
The adoption in the usp. 1900 of Gordiu's modification of the Keller process has but served to stimulate such discussion until there is at present no more interesting and, in view of the strict rulings of the Food and Drug Commission, no more important question before the pharmaceutical chemist than the determination of strychnine in nux vomica.
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