Alcohol, strychnine and warmth must also be employed.
As in strychnine poisoning, the patient is conscious and clear-minded to the last.
A species of Acarus is recorded as infesting a store of powdered strychnine and feeding on that drug, so poisonous to larger organisms. Reference to literature (40).
It is very similar to strychnine, both chemically and physiologically.
Fraser proved that by substitution of molecules in certain compounds a stimulant could be converted into a sedative action; thus by the addition of the methyl group CH 2 to the molecule of strychnine, thebaine or brucine, the tetanizing action of these drugs is converted into a paralysing action.