The chemistry of the bark of Robina pseud-acacia, Linné (false acacia or common locust) / by Frederick B. Power.

  • Power, Frederick B. (Frederick Belding), 1853-1927
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: The chemistry of the bark of Robina pseud-acacia, Linné (false acacia or common locust) / by Frederick B. Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The CKemistry of the Bark of Robima Pseud-acacia, Lir\oe. BY FREDERICK B. POWER, Ph.D. In a paper read by me before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, on December 27, 1889, and pub- hshed in the Pharm. Rundschau, New York, February, 1890, PP- 29-38, entitled: “On the Chemical Constituents and Poisonous Principle of the Bark of Robinia Pseud-acacia, (Power and Caanbier), an account was given of some recent severe cases of poisoning produced by chewing the bark ° the Robinia, together with an investigation which had been un< ertaken during the preceding summer for the purpose of ( fteimining the nature of the poisonous principle. In the paper referred to (abstracted in the Pharm. Joum., 1890, p. 711), the more commonly occurring constituents of the bark w‘Te nofed, as also the isolation of a substance which was pre¬ cipitated by all the usual alkaloidal reagents and believed to 7 choline, although observed to differ from the latter in some of its characters. The most important observation, however, to which attention was directed was the fact that the toxic action of Robinia bark is due to a poisonous proteid, similar in ite character to ricin and abrin, and, being guided by the classification of the albuminoids adopted at that time bv * Read before the British Pharmaceutical Conference, Dublin, July^oT