Strychnin
See also: Strychnin (homonymy)
The strychnin is a very toxic Alcaloïde extracted the vomic Noix, used like stimulant with very low dose. It is the traditional poison in the fight against the corbels and small the Rongeur S but, curiously, it is not toxic for the guinea-pig. This use is prohibited in France since 1999.
Physical properties and chemical
Two French pharmacists, Pierre Joseph Furrier and Joseph Caventou isolated strychnin in 1818. Strychnin is obtained by grating vomic nut in ebullient alcohol then by distilling liquor obtained.
The crystals are rhomboïdaux prisms colorless, odorless, but of strong bitter savor. The solutions are Lévogyre S. the chemical structure is complex; two Nobel Prize of chemistry contributed to solve the problem, Sir Robert Robinson which proposed the formula in 1946 and Robert Woodward which carried out the total synthesis in 1954.
Effects on the human being
- strychnin is stimulative central Nervous system. It increases the taste, the sense of smell and the sight. With average amount, it increases the respiratory amplitude.
- Thomas Hicks became Olympic champion of the marathon in 1904 thanks to two strychnin punctures.
- Another anecdote of the type, Dorando Pietri, in 1908, doped with strychnin him also, crumbles in the last meters whereas it carries out the race. The judges will carry it until the arrival. It will be disqualified for “foreign aid”.
- With lethal amount, 0,2 mg/kg being able to be enough: Spasm S muscular at the end of 10 to 20 minutes while starting with the head and the neck, strong pains, convulsions, cardiac arrest, then death by Asphyxiation. Best the Antidote S is the Barbiturique S.
Suicides and assassinations with strychnin
Strychnin in the detective novels
- By Agatha Christie:
- By Georges Simenon:
- the yellow Dog
- By Henri Vernes
- Bob Morane: The club of the long knives
- By William Burroughs
- By Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt
- the business of the yellow crystals
Strychnin in the news
- By Vladimir Nabokov
- a blow of wing
- By Malcolm Lowry
- Below the volcano
Strychnin in the song
In the Solace album, the Canadian group Ion Dissonance has a named song " She' S strychnine"
One of the tubes of Sonics, taken again later by Cramps
- The Cramps: Strychnin (rock'n'roll pre-punk garage/)
- Strychnine is an rock group of Bordeaux of the Années 1980, energetic group representative of the vague French punk-rock'n'roll of this time. (cf Rock'n'roll in Bordeaux) standard
- of the rock'n'roll-garage, this piece was often taken again or arrange (cf Tuepogo E64)
- The Sonics: " strychine" version original of the garage group of the Sixties (album: young stag are the sonics)
In “the King of England”, Nino Ferrer sings that “Mrs Joséphine nourishes strychnin all her neighbors of the stage below”…
In cartoon film Astérix and Cléopâtre (1968), strychnin is used as ingredient in the design of the cake for Cléopâtre: " Pudding with Arsenic ". Here an extract of the beginning of the song: In a large strychnin bowl Water morphine Make warm with the pan Good oil glass …
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original Title: Astérix and Cléopâtre
- Many episodes: 1
- Interpreter (S): Jacques Balutin and Bernard Lavalette
- 1st French diffusion: 1968
- 1st Chain of diffusion: TF1, M6
- Author (S) of the cartoon: Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (data base)
- Production: Studio Belvision
- Source: http://www.coucoucircus.org/da/generique.php?id=599&lecture=3&volumeson=75
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